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Anna Quandt
Iowa City IA
PhD sociologist, retired from foreign aid program to raise Aspergers son, now 22.
Interests: Environment and autism, programs for young adults, biomed interventions,opportunities in video -graphy for my son.
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Than you Natalie. These videos warmed my heart!
Commented Jan 11, 2016 on Coping With Loneliness at AGE OF AUTISM
Coping With Loneliness
By Natalie Palumbo I’m 21, a junior Motion Design major at Ringling College of Art and Design, and the only sister to an older brother with low-verbal autism. I am just finishing the long winter break with my cousins, and had an especially good time with Anthony. Over Thanksgiving, he had seen...
Dan,
Love the picture. Thanks for all you do.
Commented Jan 2, 2016 on Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Yes, It’s a Conspiracy. at AGE OF AUTISM
Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Yes, It’s a Conspiracy.
By Dan Olmsted Back in the 1970s when I started as a full-time journalist, I covered the usual beats – police, fire, the courts, city hall, in my hometown on Danville, Ill. (That's me in a contemporary rendering from, gosh, 40 years ago this new year.) I’d show up at what we called “the cop s...
Thank you Anne for this update on environmental research. I remember having such high hopes when the MIND Institute was set up. I'd like to see a break down of their funding sources. Are there any environmental scientists working on this problem who do not rely on all "the usual" funding sources?
Commented Dec 28, 2015 on Autism and Environment Today at AGE OF AUTISM
Autism and Environment Today
By Anne Dachel Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto at UC Davis MIND Intstitute is an expert in autism. For years, she's been notable in news stories on developments in research. Hertz-Picciotto was covered last month in Slate.com. On Nov 5, 2015, Slate.com published the piece, What Environmental Facto...
Have we forgotten bad arithmetic?: There's no epidemic. Just better diagnosis.
It's an important piece to the paradigm. Because if the rates are really increasing we would have to look for an environmental cause.
Commented Dec 27, 2015 on Weekly Wrap: More Bad Ideas That Perpetuate the Autism Epidemic. at AGE OF AUTISM
Weekly Wrap: More Bad Ideas That Perpetuate the Autism Epidemic.
By Dan Olmsted My column this week on six bad ideas that triggered the autism epidemic (and how to fix them) led to some thoughtful responses, as well as the usual defense of all things vaccine, this time led by Vincent Iannelli, MD and Eindeker, useful foils of whom I will speak no more (but o...
Thank you Dan. You are one of my true heroes.
Commented Jun 13, 2015 on Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Deviants United -- and Fighting Back! at AGE OF AUTISM
Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Deviants United -- and Fighting Back!
By Dan Olmsted Medical authorities, as you may have noticed, don’t like to be challenged. The fact that they have been so wrong, so often, so long and so recently does not in the least change their view of the matter. They are angry you would even bring it up! They may have advertised the thr...
Yup. Nice new study in JAMA. Authors affiliated with The Lewin Group and Optum. Funding unspecified.
Commented Apr 22, 2015 on Dachel Media Update: California Vaccine Exemption Restrictions at AGE OF AUTISM
Dachel Media Update: California Vaccine Exemption Restrictions
By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. The Dachel Media Update is sponsored by Lee Silsby Compounding Pharmacy and OurKidsASD, an online supplement retailer for patients with special needs. It seems that members of the press are all in agreement on the iss...
I read the USA Today article by Karen Weintraub. It states,"the drug appeared to benefit rodents whose autistic behaviors had been caused by genetic problems, as well as in cases triggered by an epilepsy medication, valproic acid". So drug manufacturers know how to create autism in rodents by giving them valproic acid. Do they know the mechanism by which this works? Do they know other toxins that create autistic lab rats? Is there a whole hidden science on how to create autism if you can't find enough "genetic" cases? Somebody help me here.
Commented Feb 8, 2014 on Dachel Media Review: Adults & Vaccines, Drug Therapy at AGE OF AUTISM
Dachel Media Review: Adults & Vaccines, Drug Therapy
By Anne Dachel Reda Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. Feb 7, 2014, NPR Boston: The Good News, Bad News Story On Measles Feb 6, 2014, National Geographic: Understanding Autism: Baby's Delivery May Be Key Feb 6, 2014, US News: Many U.S. Adults Not Getting Key Vaccines: CDC Fe...
I have not followed this debate as carefully as the rest of you. Why is it not possible to fund and carry out a vaccinated /unvaccinated study with private funds? I know Generation Rescue did an initial survey a few years ago which was ignored by the establishment. But it still baffles me that in a free country we can't get an independent study.
Commented Oct 29, 2013 on Umpteenth Vaccines/Autism Study from Defective Database Launched Amid Maximum Publicity at AGE OF AUTISM
Umpteenth Vaccines/Autism Study from Defective Database Launched Amid Maximum Publicity
By John Stone The latest study to decry a connection between vaccines and autism was launched the week before last by the on-line journal BMJ Open, an off-shoot of British Medical Journal. The lead author of the study is none other than Brent Taylor, one of Andrew Wakefield’s principal antagoni...
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