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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
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Category: Autism
A trio of Federal judges have ruled against three separate plaintiffs who alleged that vaccines caused their child's autism: These three decisions, each looking into a different theory as to how vaccines might have injured the children, are expected to...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:13 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Autism
The NYTimes profiles Paul Offit, author of Autism's False Prophets. Offit has been taking the anti-vaccine lobby to task over pseudoscience, and he hasn't been winning many friends in the process: Those backing Dr. Offit say he was forced into...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:23 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: Autism
The subpeona against Kathleen Seidel has been quashed. ENDORSED ORDER granting MOTION to Quash Subpoena. Text of Order: "Granted. Attorney Clifford Shoemaker is ordered to show cause within 10 days why he should not be sanctioned under Fed R Civ...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 7:48 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Autism
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about Kathleen Seidel, a blogger at neurodiversity.com, who was being intimidated via subpeona by a lawyer for anti-vaccinationists. The lawyer, Clifford Shoemaker, represents plaintiffs in a lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers alleging that mercury in...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:46 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Law
You have got to be friggin' kidding me!? Kathleen Seidel, blogger at neurodiversity.com, has been subpoenaed by Rev. Lisa Sykes and Seth Sykes to appear in their case against the Bayer company. Their case alleges that mercury additives to vaccines...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 7:51 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Politics
I nearly aerosolized Diet Pepsi all over my computer screen when I read this: It a town hall meeting Friday in Texas, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., declared that "there's strong evidence" that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that was once in...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:56 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Autism
The author of a controversial paper about the link between mercury and autism responds to her critics.
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:03 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Ethics
I wrote earlier today about mercury and autism, and how I thought a criticism of an earlier paper on statistical grounds was fair. Some of the commentors including Orac took me to task saying that the original analysis was indeed...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 7:29 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Autism
I was struck by this paper that came out in the Journal of Child Neurology, looking back at previous study of mercury levels in autistic children. DeSoto and Hitlan looked back at Ip et al. 2004, a case control study...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:37 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Autism
Less than a week after I had to correct myself on autism and face perception, I read another article on the subject that has me skeptical. Let's see if we can apply what we learned before. The conclusions from my...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:53 AM • 4 Comments •
