By Matt Carey Andrew Wakefield’s film, VAXXED, opened today in a theater in New York. Mr. Wakefield somehow convinced Robert De Niro to break the rules of the Tribeca Film Festival and personally insert the film into the lineup of TFF. When this was discovered, Mr. De Niro first defended his decision and, after getting […]
By Matt Carey This past year we have been fighting a big battle here in California. We were fighting to restore some of the services funding we’ve lost over the preceding years. We were trying to get a 10% increase in services funding, which wouldn’t make up for what we’ve lost over the years, but […]
By Matt Carey I recently wrote about an incredibly irresponsible statement made by a Mr. Del Bigtree (Del Bigtree crosses the line: tells Vaxxed audience “Now’s the time” for guns.) The problematic statement I focused upon was: “Anyone who believes in the right to bear arms. To stand up against your government. I don’t know […]
By Matt Carey Del Bigtree helped Andrew Wakefield produce a faux documentary called Vaxxed. Vaxxed has been discussed here and elsewhere a great deal, but here is a review from Science Based Medicine if you are looking for more details (Andrew Wakefield’s VAXXED: Antivaccine propaganda at its most pernicious). The team that made Vaxxed has […]
News8 new results for autism Autistic child arrested for shopliftingStandardNetPolice this week arrested a boy with autism on shoplifting charges after they say he walked out of a Boynton Beach Mall store with a greeting card in his hand. A Spencer Gifts store employee called police Sunday after stopping the 12-year-old boy …See all stories on this topic » Facing autism’s hard […]
News10 new results for autism Vaccine-Autism Controversy: Wakefield Sues British Journal For Defamation in TexasCare2.com (blog)by Kristina Chew The British doctor Andrew Wakefield whose discredited study linking autism to the MMR vaccine set off a global public health scare has sued the editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal, Fiona Godlee and also the British …See all stories on this topic » Mother Faces Jail For Autistic Son’s […]
News8 new results for autism Are you Autistic? Maybe, but Probably Not.FuturehealthBy Tsara Shelton (about the author) For the holidays I would love to spread a little understanding and a few autism answers. I have recently been surprised by the ongoing rumor that autism is sometimes just an excuse for bratty kids or bad parenting. …See all stories on this topic » […]
