It’s past time for another Midweek Medicine (sorry ’bout that). I was intending to blog in detail about the recent study from South Korea telling us that the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders is 2.64 – or 1 in 38 people. *coughbullshitcough* I’m kind of sick of it though, after reading and calculating and re-reading...
As I mentioned in my post at the beginning of this week on Human Goodness, I was contacted by a guy named Duane who had put in a lot of effort to track down the original owner of a media player he bought online, so that he could send it back to him, First of...
Star light, star bright Wish I may, wish I might Have the wish I wish tonight … I wish simply that this Christmas Jenny Mcarthy might be visited by the Ghost of Childhood Diseases Past, and come to realise what dreadful harm she is doing by encouraging parents to not vaccinate their children. Merry Christmas all (except for...
I had intended that today’s Friday Filosophy would be a further exploration of the theme I began a few weeks back: that of understanding one’s choices (rather than philosophy in fact determining one’s actions). However, Age of Autism have derailed that, by illustrating absolutely perfectly how one should not approach a debate. (Its now...
Just an idle thought here. A bit of a reductio ad absurdum The vaccines-cause-autism crowd are up in arms over, well, many things, but a recurrent theme has been the demonisation of thimerosal – because it’s really mercury don’tchaknow, and hence (I guess) all the chelation bollocks. They’d rather we use only “natural” things...
