Autism News Beat

Tweet An Illinois doctor who subjects autistic children to “unwarranted, dangerous therapies” must have her work reviewed by an acupuncturist. The state medical board also fined Dr. Anju Usman $10,000, ordered her to take additional medical education classes, and placed her on probation for at least one year, as part of her plea agreement with […]

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Tweet Chilis Grill and Bar, which operates over 1200 restaurants, refuses to explain its plan to donate 10% of its sales on April 7 to the National Autism Association,  a well-known anti-vaccine advocacy group. “Right now we are coming up with what we are going to say about it,” a corporate spokesperson told AutismNewsBeat. She […]

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Tweet Listen to the parents! That’s what discredited and cult-like autism advocacy groups tell us. What they really mean is “pay no attention to the science – just listen to our unconfirmed anecdotes!” Groups such as Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) and Jenny McCarthy’s Generation Rescue are notorious for excluding or ejecting skeptics and neutral […]

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Tweet You can watch the House Committee on Government Operations and Reform online HERE. 12:59 pm CT – Joe Biden is shopping for children’s books at Costco. Welcome to C-Span 3. 1:00 – OK, here we go. Chairman Darrel Issa reminds us that the mission of the committee is to make sure tax money isn’t […]

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Tweet From the UK’s Sun, we learn that “PLAYBOY babe Jenny McCarthy has revealed she was once so high on drugs she tried to have sex with a TREE.” And from the Chicago Sun-Times we learn that McCarthy’s Google PhD is good enough to land a gig as that paper’s parent advice columnist. Talk about […]

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