Before diving in and talking immediately about the Young, Geier, & Geier study, “Thimerosal exposure in infants and neurodevelopmental disorders: an assessment of computerized medical records in the Vaccine Safety Datalink,” it’s probably a good idea to back up a bit and talk about confounding and confounders. The authors make no mention of confounding and […]

Two days ago I came across the paper, “Thimerosal exposure in infants and neurodevelopmental disorders: an assessment of computerized medical records in the Vaccine Safety Datalink,” by Heather Young, David Geier, and Mark Geier, which is listed as an Article in Press in the Journal of Neurological Sciences. This study has a lot of problems, […]

In my last post I argued that the apparent marked increase in the frequency of Autistic Disorder over the last three decades is almost entirely due to three factors: broadening diagnostic criteria, younger age at diagnosis, and improved efficiency of case ascertainment. Some autism activists have argued that this can be seen merely as a […]

Okay, I’m back. I really did fracture some ribs and I have a partially atelectatic lung. The prognosis is good as long as I keep breathing deeply, but it hurts like hell and I can’t sleep. I’ve been gone for about ten days and the world has gone berserk on the MMR vaccine & autism […]