Is Autism a Methylation Disease?
What causes autism? It’s a question that has bedeviled researchers for decades, but a new report in BioMedCentral Medicine points to epigenetics for a possible answer: Researchers at Duke University...
View ArticleVaccines and Autism: The Bullshit Continues
A news item a few days ago has fired up a new round of the old “vaccines cause autism” nonsense. The story correctly states that the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has awarded a...
View ArticlePenn and Teller on Vaccines and Autism
I first saw these guys at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, long before they were famous. Though their recent work sometimes veers a bit off the rails, they definitely do a good job explaining the...
View ArticleThe Vaccine-Autism Fraud
This is why we still need old-fashioned investigative journalists. Of course the anti-vaccination zealots will claim he’s a tool of Big Pharma, but that’s pretty hard to reconcile with his other work....
View ArticleThe Epidemic That Still Isn’t: Autism Rates and Case Definitions
A paper that came out yesterday in the American Journal of Psychiatry has generated a lot of press coverage of the “autism epidemic,” as it purportedly shows that one in every 38 South Korean children...
View ArticleNew Elsevier Slogan: “It’s All about The Benjamins”
Regular readers of this blog (both of you), and regular listeners of This Week in Virology (all 10,000-plus of you) are by now quite familiar with a fellow named Andrew Wakefield, and the epic and...
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Our Cross to Bear
I’m an atheist, but for social reasons I occasionally have to sit through a church service. This past Easter, I did it again, and found the sermon particularly interesting, though not in the way the...
View ArticleElsevier Makes Good: Original Wakefield Takedown Now Free
Awhile back, I blogged about a particularly insidious glitch in the biomedical literature, in which a fraudulent study that caused enormous harm was available for free, while a contemporary – and...
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