Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
As Kev has noted, Dr. Jon Poling has a communication in the New England Journal of Medicine. As I read it, I wanted to make a comment. But, I saw, that comment will be really long and end up looking more like…
Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jon Poling writes a letter in the NEJM that says: Offit’s remarks about Hannah’s case are not evidence-based. He has no access to my daughter’s personal medical records, legal documents, or affidavits. In contrast, physicians from the Department of Health and…
Adventures in Autism (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few months ago, Paul Offit told some mistruths about the Poling case in the NYT, and they ran Jon Poling's correction a few days later. Offit has not stopped lying mistruthing and now Poling is correcting him publicly for a second time, now in the New England Journal of Medicine. One of the errors that Offit keeps repeating is that the Poling judgment was a court decision...
Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
ABC news reports on a Sunday meeting in Indianapolis of government health officials about mitochondrial disorders. The day before, New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris wrote that the meeting had been called for experts in mitochondrial disorders to discuss the “controversial case” of Hannah Poling, whose underlying mitochondrial disorder was found to have been “aggravated” [...]
Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Ever since March when the government conceded that vaccines had “aggravated” a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder and led to symptoms of autism in a 9-year-old girl, Hannah Poling, whether there’s any link between mitonchondrial disorders and autism has been under questions. Is there a “subpopulation of mitochondrial autism“?, Hannah Poling’s father, Dr. Jon Poling has asked....
