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Age of Autism to Autism Families: Make your children suffer by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Your pretty red house is engulfed in a roaring fire. You keep feeding the fire. Maybe petrol will help. Pour it on. Maybe some oil. Pour that on too. You don’t know. Nob ... Read on »
Blog housekeeping by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Just a little update on LB/RB news.First and foremost, the Crowdscience popup asking for opinions is gone. I’ve got enough data now to take over the world ensure any fut ... Read on »
Bob Wright snubs autistic adults, the same group who live in poverty by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum The New York Post reported on Autism Speaks founder Bob Wright having a grumpy slap at adult autistic people who were protesting the fact that Autism Speaks still has no autis ... Read on »
Autism treatment: Science hijacked to support alternative therapies by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Such is the title of the latest article in the Chicago Tribune by Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan.The article is subtitled: ‘Researchers’ fears about misuse ... Read on »
Eugenic Arguments in the Times by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Today’s Times carries an article that suggests that people with learning difficulties should not be allowed to have children because it would cost to much to support the ... Read on »
Boyd Haley brings the weirdness by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum On 12th Novemeber, Vueweekly f eatured the second part of an interview with Boyd Haley during which Professor Haley contradicted so many of the basic tenets of the autism/vacc ... Read on »
The Rising Rates of Autism in the Age of Modern Medicine by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Most people who are not on a mission to prove inoculations are the sole cause of autism would very easily concede that a large portion of the increased diagnostic rates of Aut ... Read on »
Thoughtful House acknowledges that chelation can be dangerous and not effective by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum IV Chelation could cause death, and Thoughtful House acknowledges it:From a recent story in the Austin Statesman:Thoughtful House’s IV chelation consent form, which Juli ... Read on »
Parents in lawsuit over Thoughtful House treatement by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Father takes ex-wife to court over son’s autism treatment is the title of a recent story on Statesman.com. The subtitle: Mother says intravenous treatment at Thoughtful ... Read on »
Another example of irresponsible blogging by David Kirby by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Autism Speaks recently put out what I consider to be a rather irresponsible press release. The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) added a new objective, and Auti ... Read on »
90% of autistic kids bullied? by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum A story just out from the Boston Herald state: Survey finds 90% of autistic kids bullied. The story starts out with:A shocking new online survey has found that nearly 90 perc ... Read on »
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Ineffective Treatment for Children with Autism by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has grown in popularity over the last few years. This growth has occurred without any evidence that HBOT is at all beneficial.A recent study, ... Read on »
Give Thanks for Your Healthy Child by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Guest Blog post by Dawn A. Crawford, Communications Director at the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition.At the height of the H1N1 scare it’s easy to forget ... Read on »
Flu vaccine ruins another life by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Screw autism. Over in the US, yet another dangerous ailment was triggered by the dangerous, untested, unnecessary [insert blah blah here] flu vaccine….Only two weeks af ... Read on »
REMOVE the “How Retarded Are You Quiz” Off Facebook by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Believe it or not, there is a application/quiz on Facebook called “How Retarded Are You?”Luckily there is also a movement to have this removed from Facebook, with ... Read on »
Autism Speaks misleads the public on the IACC’s stance on vaccine research by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Autism Speaks recently announced that the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) included vaccine research studies into the objectives of the Strategic Plan. I&rsqu ... Read on »
Autism Speaks pushes the “legislative history” myth about the Combating Autism Act by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Autism Speaks has announced (possibly incorrectly) that the IACC (Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee) has included vaccine language in the Strategic Plan.Autism Speaks ... Read on »
IACC includes vaccine language in strategic plan? by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum I was unable to listen to yesterday’s meeting. But according to a press release from Autism Speaks:Autism Speaks is encouraged by yesterday’s decision of the Inter ... Read on »
I am an autism parent by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum I’ve been thinking of this post for a long time. Pretty much since the first day the Autism Speaks “I am Autism” video came out.I would have loved to make a ... Read on »
IACC full committee meeting tomorrow by Kev Leitch Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee will be meeting tomorrow (November 10th) “to discuss recommendations for the annual update of the IACC Strategic Plan for A ... Read on »