Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
First there was the world tour (well, to London). Then there was the national tour (well, around a day’s drive from NYC, or thereabouts). Now, we had David Kirby, live by phone on the radio ! The talk is broken into two…
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
US Department of Defense: 1-2% of individuals may experience severe vaccine effects that "could result in disability or death." American Academy of Pediatrics: 2+ %...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Until now, estimates of mitochondrial disease rates have held steady at about 1-in-4000 people. A new study shows that 20 times that number have genetic mutations that could cause the disease.
Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
As has become apparent in recent weeks, there seems to be a ‘backdoor’ movement underway from the mercury militia. It all started when Kelli Ann Davis attempted to rewrite US legislative history by stating in a speech to the IACC Working Group that the Combatting Autism Act contained specific phraseology on vaccination. It of course did not. David Kirby repeated this error in a Huffington...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... of Georgia, has responded to Dr. Novella, including his, "criticizing the journalism of Mr. David Kirby." A copy of Dr. Poling's letter to Dr. Novella is posted at what ABC News.com called "the popular blog, Age of Autism ." It makes for some good reading, from deep inside the medical establishment! PS: Here is a thought meant to spark more discussion: If parents who do not vaccinate...
Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
As I’ve said before, I like David Kirby personally. We exchange friendly emails. We even recently discussed the idea of having a private blog – readable by all but one that allowed only two posters (David and I) and no…
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
David Kirby was, along with the first Sir Robert Reid, one of a distinguished group of able managers who ran British Rail during its most successful period in the 1980s and 1990s. A period commonly described nowadays in the professional, and sometimes even in the national press, as the Golden Age of the railways in this country.
denialism blog (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Prometheus brings us the best article I've seen to date on why the new push for a mitochondrial basis for autism is total nonsense. Once I saw this push from denialists like David Kirby towards a link between mitochondria and autism I knew we were in for a world of trouble. If only because mitochondrial diseases are a relatively new area of study and there are enough unknowns that they'll...
Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
... by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). What did they say? According to David Kirby’s post : In sum, DVIC has concluded that the facts of this case meet the statutory criteria for demonstrating that the vaccinations [Hannah Poling] received on July 19, 2000, significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder, which predisposed her to deficits in cellular...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Judge David Kirby handed down his finding today on the question of whether Ms Beltrame's mental state had ruled her unfit for trial. “I believe that you are fit for trial,” Justice Kirby told Ms Beltrame in the NSW Supreme Court yesterday. He ordered that a trial date be set at a hearing on September 5. Daniela Beltrame, 54, is accused of killing her father, Ederino, 70, at his...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... Unbridled Books, April 2008 Review by Matt Bell The Temple Gate Called Beautiful Poetry by David Kirby Alice James Books, April 2008 Review by Micah ZevinSpooky Action at a Distance Fiction by Tom Noyes Dufour Editions, March 2008 Review by Anna Clark
Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
... found other cases in the vaccine court’s history involving autism/autistic symptoms within days of David Kirby breaking the Hannah Poling story. It wasn’t hard—the government has cleverly swept these cases “under the rug” by putting them on their server in plain sight. The Chief Special Master made statements in the press about previous cases. (I need to find a good link for that,...
Natural Variation - Autism Blog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
I've known about this for about a year, but I never got around to writing about it. I was reminded of it by a recent David Kirby post where he informs us that "an unusually large proportion of Somali-speaking children in Minnesota have autism." I suppose David Kirby is trying to make this about vaccines. The thing is that a link between autism and immigration has been suspected...
Respectful Insolence (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I'm envious of Steve Novella . Well, just a little, anyway. The reason is that he's somehow managed to annoy David Kirby and the anti-vaccine contingent enough to provoke what appears to be a coordinated response to his debunking of anti-vaccine propaganda. For that alone he deserves some serious props. You may have wondered why I haven't written much about Amanda Peet giving an interview...
Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... pro-science cause — and that’s scaring the antivax crowd enough to send out Dr. John Poling and David Kirby to attack him: Dr. Poling’s letter looks like part of a coordinated attack by the mercury militia. David Kirby has joined in . I think I know what’s going on here. Antivaccinationists can dismiss me when I post about mitochondrial disorders because I’m a cancer...
