Jenny is back: Singing a different song, but still out of tune.
It would seem that Jenny McCarthy has been expanding and refining her knowledge base in the field of immunology. After being ardently anti-vaccine for years (and doing who knows how much damage during...
View ArticleThe lowest of the low: Quack treatments for autism
As if parents with autistic children don’t have enough to worry about, there are a number of vultures out there who are all too willing to take advantage of these parents by selling treatments that are...
View ArticleThe anti-vaccine movement is putting our kids’ lives in danger
Following the 1994 enactment of the Vaccines for Children program — which was aimed to provide vaccinations for children whose parents Continue reading → The post The anti-vaccine movement is putting...
View ArticleThe anti-vaccine movement gains traction, ignoring the science
Another blogger voice is adding fuel to the “anti-vaccine” movement. Sharyl Attkisson, an investigative journalist, reports the findings of Continue reading → The post The anti-vaccine movement gains...
View ArticlePETA misleads parents about autism
As if parents of autistic children didn’t have enough to contend with, now there’s a pseudo-warning from the animal rights/vegan-promoting group PETA alleging that consumption of dairy products is...
View ArticleUC-Davis group links pesticides to autism — without measuring pesticides. What?
The journal Environmental Health Perspectives publishes any “study” linking a chemical to any bad outcome. Today’s junkpile: a poorly conceived, poorly analyzed, data-dredged propaganda piece which...
View ArticleHealth News Update: June 23, 2014
Catch the latest news on the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease you don’t want to contract, why the pesticide-autism link is flawed, and the latest on unvaccinated children in the New York public...
View ArticleThe re-emergence of vaccine preventable diseases
This year, our country has seen the highest incidence of measles – 16 outbreaks and almost 500 reported cases – since the year 2000 when the infection was declared eradicated in the Continue reading →...
View ArticleRobert F. Kennedy Jr. promotes a dangerous and unscientific position on...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is putting out a book called, “Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury – a Known Neurotoxin – from Vaccines.” Continue reading...
View ArticleNo, Virginia, there’s still no vaccine-autism link
There seems to be new excitement in the world of vaccine-autism conspirators. As explained in a masterful debunking essay by David Gorski on Science-Based Medicine, the Internet abounds with new...
View ArticleACSH’s Top 10 Health Scares of 2014
Here is ACSH's official list of this year's top 10 scares Continue reading → The post ACSH’s Top 10 Health Scares of 2014 appeared first on American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).
View ArticleO2 No! Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is back. Let the breather beware.
In the neverending world of “alternative medicine,” it’s always something. The non-medical roulette wheel from hell has a far greater number of wrong choices (37 on a standard roulette wheel ) than...
View ArticleRise in autism diagnoses may be largely due to changes in diagnostic criteria
The prevalence of ASD has increased significantly over the last thirty years. In order to explain this increase, everything from mercury in vaccines, the vaccines themselves, to pesticides have been...
View ArticleNo link between labor induction/augmentation and autism
The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD)— characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction as well as restricted repetitive patterns of behavior— seems to...
View ArticleHealth News: Silicone on trial, homeopathy and ADHD, and no link between...
The post Health News: Silicone on trial, homeopathy and ADHD, and no link between Pitocin and autism appeared first on American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).
View ArticleThe role of genetics in autism spectrum disorder
The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) seems to have increased significantly over the last thirty years, resulting in much speculation about the causes of this disorder. Everything from...
View ArticleHealth News: Fancy waters, health nuts, &‘Light It Up Blue’ for World Autism Day
In health news: Plain ole water is getting a makeover— new, but not necessarily improved, could nuts be the new powerhouse foods? Some think so, and the world lights it up blue for World Autism...
View ArticleAutism Spectrum Disorders more common in babies of diabetic moms: New study
The causes of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are poorly understood. There have been many “culprits,” including environmental pollutants, parental ages, and genetic determinants, but these are at best,...
View ArticleNew study confirms no link between vaccines and autism, no matter what...
it is important to pay attention to yet one more study of the purported connection between MMR vaccination and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Continue reading → The post New study confirms no link...
View ArticleHealth Wrap: The first GM crop, autism rates, & chlamydia outbreak
The latest in health news: The very first GMO wasn’t grown by a big corporation or in a lab, it came form Mother Nature, autism rates are not on the rase, but detection is, and a Texas high school...
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