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Autism Jabberwocky: April 2013
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Making sense of the nonsense in the world of autism. Sunday, April 7, 2013. Autism-Vaccine War Reaches New Height of Stupidity. Can the vaccine-autism wars on the Internet get any more absurd? Dan Olmsted - " Non-believers are Nazi sympathizers. The report goes on to quote the DeStefano/CDC study about how the antigens in vaccines don't correlate with a risk for autism. Even in the self-protective annals of the CDC, this study is a stinker. This happens all the damn time, people! I don't think I quite ha...
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Autism Jabberwocky: January 2015
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Making sense of the nonsense in the world of autism. Sunday, January 18, 2015. The End of the Beginning. I entitled this post the end of the beginning because, with the twins turning ten, it sort of is the end of the first chapter of our lives with autism. We spend the first ten years pushing them and their younger sister as hard as we could and trying every reasonable thing we could find to alter the course of their autism. I firmly believe that what we did helped. However, I do think that I am done wri...
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Questioning Answers: Immune related genes and pathways feature in 22q11DS-ASD
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News and views on autism research and other musings. Friday, 7 August 2015. Immune related genes and pathways feature in 22q11DS-ASD. A quick post for your consumption today based on the findings reported by Maria Jalbrzikowski and colleagues. 1] (open-access available here. Who undertook " genomic analyses of 22q11DS to identify genes and pathways related to specific phenotypes. 22q11DS - 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. Differential expression] analysis and WGCNA. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis.
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Autism Jabberwocky: March 2014
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Making sense of the nonsense in the world of autism. Sunday, March 30, 2014. Autism Rising : The Emperor's New Clothes. It's that time of the year again - winter is finally starting to fade, spring is in the air, and Autism Awareness month is right around the corner. Which means that it is time to play one of my favorite games - rationalize about the latest massive increase in the rate of autism. In case you haven't heard, the CDC just this week released the latest. How can they say in their 2000 report.
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Autism Jabberwocky: Stimming
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Making sense of the nonsense in the world of autism. Sunday, August 18, 2013. Stimming is harmless, right? Maybe it is just me but it sure seems like many autism self-advocates think that stimming is something harmless or is only a problem because of other people's opinions. Here's one recent example. And why is that? Who exactly does stimming embarrass? Not the autistic person who’s doing it. That is so hyperbolic that it would be funny if it weren't so sad -. The overriding theme of this last one is th...
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My Socrates Note: Vaccines and Religion…Just Not How you Think
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The amount of sarcasm I present is directly proportional to the amount of stupidity you present. Thursday, February 13, 2014. Vaccines and Religion…Just Not How you Think. A couple of weeks ago, I was having a discussion with an old friend of mine. He and I were remarking on the similarities between the vaccine zealots (those he calls Vaccine Wackos) and religious extremists. Now, from this brief description, let’s look and see how that applies to the Vaccinators. This is evident in the congregation of f...
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Questioning Answers: Gender differences in chronic fatigue syndrome
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News and views on autism research and other musings. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Gender differences in chronic fatigue syndrome. The title of this post matches the title of the paper published by Monica Faro and colleagues. 1] ( open-access here. And some potentially important data on " whether there are gender-related differences in CFS. And to define a clinical phenotype in men. There as an example of potential under-diagnosis in action with another label in mind. 119 (9%) of the cohort were described as...
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My Socrates Note: Censorship is Bad…Unless You’re a False Skeptic
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The amount of sarcasm I present is directly proportional to the amount of stupidity you present. Thursday, January 2, 2014. Censorship is Bad…Unless You’re a False Skeptic. David is blathering about how something offends him…his usual verbal diarrhoea. Today he’s droning on about how he thinks censorship is bad on Facebook, Mkay? 8220;My personal issues with Facebook aside, Facebook does indeed have many shortcomings, but until something else comes along and steals the same cachet (which is already happe...
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Questioning Answers: Assessing multiple associations in autoimmunity
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News and views on autism research and other musings. Friday, 16 September 2011. Assessing multiple associations in autoimmunity. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Have been a recurrent theme throughout various research on autism spectrum and lots of other conditions in recent times. The accumulated data on the subject seems to indicate several things: ( i. We are all a product of mutation. Whether we have autism or not), ( ii. There are multiple mutations suggested to be linked to autism. Immune me...