Ginger Taylor

[MinorityView]

on her exchanges with the LA Times and Orac.

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2009/09/chris-mooney-sheril-kirshenbaum-lori.html

Ginger has tried really hard to middle of the road and moderate and polite and hopeful--but she has reached her limit. I have a feeling a lot of parents are heading this way.

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2009/09/chris-mooney-sheril-kirshenbaum-lori.html :eek:

[3monkeys]

Wow. What an incredible post. leaves me speechless. I have had many debates with parents on forums about whether or not vaccines cause austism. And if I ever have another one I am just going to post a link to that page.

I have always said to them, "walk a day in the shoes of a parent who beleives that a vaccine did that to their child before you pass judgement".

I would call her an incredible woman, but really she is a victim of circumstances who has found the power of her brain and her voice. I guess that does make her an incredible person cause so many wouldnt...........

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

amazing.

And this book (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7929.html) she mentioned, looks a good one.

[ema-adama]

Oooh, the book looks nice. I have only recently started looking into Autism, as this is not something that I have been personally touched by. And I only heard about an Autism Vaccine relationship when my IL's told me there is no connection and that the Wakefield study was retracted. :eyeroll: This was not on my radar when I started out with not vaccinating for the first 1-3 years of my sons life. I just intuitively did not think it was a good idea.

Over a year later I am only starting to touch autism through reading (and observing my BIL who I am sure is on the spectrum). And I am amazed by the frenzy of denial and skeptic science flying around.

After only dipping my toe in, I already know that anyone who defines themselves as a skeptic and a scientist has a good chance of being closed minded, arrogant and lacking in imagination. But in a really smart way. This of course is a generalization, and generalization is not really a helpful way of understanding people and their opinions.

The blog post was a really powerful post. And really highlights some of the disturbing issues that skeptic scientists are ignoring.

It really struck me when she wrote about the science journalists sitting at starbucks in years to come tsking while they say they were going on the best information that they had. That is just it. No imagination. Just myopic sorting through partially relevant details. GAH!

[MinorityView]

amazing.

And this book (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7929.html) she mentioned, looks a good one.

Darn, I almost bought that for the library and then didn't. The money always runs out way before the good books.:eyeroll: