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Autistic Child Drowns In Neighbor’s Pool – Eagle Country 99.3
The 11-year-old autistic boy was found in his neighbor’s swimming pool Saturday. Source: Autistic Child Drowns In Neighbor’s Pool – Eagle Country 99.3
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The First Lesbian Lover Selfies Ever Taken, ca. 1900 ~ vintage everyday
The ‘photobooth’ has been a fad for a long time now. You’ll be surprised to know that the first self portrait vending machine or photobooth have been in existence since 1883, which was introduced by Percival Everett. It seems photobooth selfies have been a craze since the early Edwardian era. They were commonly found at…
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EUROPEAN MANIFESTO AGAINST PSEUDO-THERAPIES | Sign the manifest – Pseudoscience Manifesto
About the organizers This manifesto is organized by the Association to Protect the Sick of Pseudoscientific Therapies (APETP in Spanish, www.apetp.com) a civil society association formed by victims of pseudotherapies, scientists, doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, computer scientists, lawyers, and a long etcetera). Other associations of the skeptical sphere such as Skeptic Circle (https://circuloesceptico.org/), ARP Society for the…
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Archived | Jenny McCarthy on Healing Her Son’s Autism and Discovering Her Life’s Mission | Circa Oct 2007 #NotAnAutisticAlly
By Allison Kugel, Senior Editor – October 09, 2007 Jenny McCarthy From Playboy model to brazenly fearless comedienne to New York Times best selling author of tell-it-like-it-is “mommy” books; it’s a career path that even surprised Jenny McCarthy… until now.After a heart wrenching battle to get her son Evan properly diagnosed after he fell…
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Jenny McCarthy still thinks vaccines cause autism – Bad Astronomy : Bad Astronomy | Circa Feb 2010
The web is abuzz about an interview antivax activist and public health threat Jenny McCarthy did with Time magazine. A lot of folks seem to think that McCarthy is backtracking on her claims that vaccines cause autism. Let me be very clear: that simply isn’t true. McCarthy is still making the same debunked, discredited, and…
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The Jenny McCarthyism of Vaccines | Circa Jan 2011
What happens when you mix a few wary parents with a fraudulent study and throw in a celebrity? You get a witch hunt. My twitter feed blew up over the news that the study linking the MMR vaccine to autism had been declared an “elaborate fraud.” The study had actually been retracted a while back, but this…
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How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endanger Us All | WIRED | Circa 2009
The debate over childhood vaccination has been in the news on and off for nearly a decade. In 2009 WIRED published a comprehensive cover story on the subject—An Epidemic of Fear—laying out the debate and analyzing how unjustified and unscientific thinking was fueling a growing anti-vaccine movement. As another wave of stories about vaccination dominate…
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