Just fancy that! Odds ratios and autism
In “Medical McCarthyism“, Lynne McTaggart seeks to defend her inaccurate use of statistics and her undermining of the proven benefits of chemotherapy thus: It all has to do with absolute vs relative...
View ArticleFancy that: the government and cancer charities are EXACTLY THE SAME
On the WDDTY Facebook page: A FEW POINTERS FOR OUR MEDIA On Thursday, the BBC’s Radio 4 Today show featured an interview with Glenn Greenwald, a former Guardian journalist, and they were talking about...
View ArticleAndrew Wakefield was right, autism is linked to gut problems
The Wakefieldites, with WDDTY of course in the vanguard (though of course they are not in the least bit anti-vaccinationist), are crowing like mad things, thanks to a paper that appears to link autism...
View ArticleWakefield was right! Or not
Antivaccinationists like Lynne McTaggart desperately want Andrew Wakefield to be right, even though he wasn't, so any study showing any kind of link between intestinal disorders and autism is portrayed...
View ArticleCandida overgrowth
Alternative therapists love nothing more than an alternative disease. "Mainstream" medicine can't detect it, so can't cure it. The more nebulous the symptoms the better! Many quacks specialise in...
View ArticleWDDTY invents advice from researchers on antidepressant use in pregnancy and...
Autism is a fertile hunting ground for quacks and cranks. Pseudoscience is rampant. It's hugely draining for parents, there is precious little anyone can do about it, and the causes are unknown. It's...
View ArticleNew therapy reversing autistic symptoms in just nine hours
Second to cancer, autism is probably the greatest focus of pseudomedical nonsense right now. Projects such as "Age of Autism", the notorious "Autism One" conference, the execrable Jenny McCarthy and...
View ArticleWhat Doctors Don’t Tell You is wrong about autism
A splendid fisking by Mike Stanton (@Convivir) of WDDTY's latest nonsensical piece on autism, the quack target du jour for pretty much every jour since Andy Wakefield's fraudfest. Numerous other hot...
View ArticleAutism: it’s all in the gut
WDDTY is consistently wrong about autism. From promoting chelation quackery to pretending that recent academic work vindicates Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent attempts to pin autism on MMR, they are...
View ArticleAutism ‘caused by MMR using human fetal cell lines’
Another month, another paper flogging the zombie meme of MMR-Autism. This time in a superficially decent journal, albeit one where the subject is likely to be outside the specialist knowledge of peer...
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