Recently, Laura Hayes, a mom with vaccine damaged kids wrote a post for Age of Autism about why she is anti-vaccine. She was responding to an article by a father of a vaccine injured child who wrote the following: "But most of the people calling for vaccine safety are pro-vaccines, want a national … [Read more...]
Toni Braxton, Autism, and Vaccines: Maybe it’s just a coincidence
In a Fox News article, singer Toni Braxton says: “Maybe it’s just a coincidence that after my son’s first MMR vaccine, I began to notice changes in him.” The article then states she noted "that after that he wasn’t responsive to affection or as high-spirited as he was before the vaccine." The … [Read more...]
Autism: More Laughable Science
Don't these stories just make you laugh? CDC, WHO, and pharmaceutical industry sponsored research such as: old moms and old dad's cause autism, living next to a freeway causes autism, autism begins in the womb, or this new research that shows autism may be connected to a woman's use of … [Read more...]
New Spin: Toxic Soup May Cause Autism, But Not Vaccines
Headlines like this are so frustrating but at the same time illuminating: Number of chemicals linked to autism and other disorders doubled in past 7 years, study shows They are frustrating because they seem to recognize that toxic exposure is dangerous while denying that the toxins in vaccines might … [Read more...]
Vaccines: The $100 Billion Behemoth
Ever wonder why there is so much pressure to vaccinate? And why there is a continuous stream of articles and reports in print, on TV and on the web about the dangers of not vaccinating and about how careless and downright dangerous or stupid you are if you don't vaccinate? It is always useful to … [Read more...]
Vaccinations: The Smoking Gun in Autoimmune Disease and Autism?
Much research has shown that a mother that has a chronic inflammatory or autoimmune disease has a much greater risk of having a child with autism. The most recent study (link below) found that the children of mothers who have lupus, an autoimmune disease, are twice as likely to have autism as … [Read more...]
Spinning the Measles (AKA Blaming Dr. Wakefield)
For the past couple of months headlines decrying the measles outbreak of 1,000 cases in Britain have been plastered across the globe: from Britain to the US, to Viet Nam, Australia, and the Middle East. It has been so widely covered it surely must make one stop and consider whether this is not … [Read more...]
MMR and Autism: Does the media tell the whole story?
Recently we have discussed the manner in which the mainstream media spins facts, research, dates, omits information, etc. to influence public perception. In this post, we share the experience of a mother whose perspective you are not likely to see on the nightly news. Isabella Thomas, the mother of … [Read more...]
Spinning the Chicken Pox Vaccine
Does the timing of media releases ever seem coordinated to you? Case in point: March 20, 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data showing the autism epidemic has reached terrifying levels, affecting 1 in 50 children and 1 in 31 boys between, age 6 and 18.1 Then on … [Read more...]
What’s on my radar? – Autism Awareness Month
Each month I write about books, DVD’s, organizations, trends, and events that are “on my radar” as they are important, timely and educational – which means they will empower you to think for yourselves, enable you to challenge the received wisdom, and give you ideas of how you might get involved to … [Read more...]
