autism

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Autism_cases_up_even_with_vaccine_c_01072008.html Looks like it wasn't mercury. Yet another "correlation is not causation" lesson. The whippings will continue until morale improves.

Rashid Buttar has been charged with misconduct by the North Carolina Medical Board. In case you may not know of him, he is a biggy in autism quack circles. He sold a DMSA chelation cream (which was dubbed Buttar Cream by some of us non-believers) that one of the Mercury Militia swore by (Brad...

From Interference Technology I think this may be the trifecta of woo-claims. It combines Autism, electromagneticism and heavy metal toxicity. :hb:

These issues keep coming up, in all kinds of threads. Mercury was blamed for causing autism, but that doesn't seem to be a direct cause, because even with mercury banned from being injected into kids, (except Flu vaccines), autism is still rising in industrialized nations. Then too, there is...

It seems that PBS (USA Public TV) has scheduled a show for April 8, 2008, that will feature irresponsible information on autism: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/10/a_credulous_treatment_of_the_mercury_mil.php I intend to write to the network and suggest that they have experts review the...