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PARTNERSHIP CALLS
CHE Partnership Call:
12/8/09: MP3 recording available - To Ban or Not to Ban: A Review of Atrazine from Both Sides of the Atlantic 11/11/09: MP3 recording available - Navigating the Scientific Evidence to Ensure Prevention
CHE WORKING GROUP CALLS
CHE-Fertility Call: Chemicals and Reproductive Health: The Male Predicament:
February 10, 2010
CHE Alaska Call: Mind, Disrupted: A conversation with project leaders and participants:
February 24, 2010
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Autism: Newsfeed
8 Feb We might err, but science is self-correcting. If claims about climate change need to be debunked, you can rely on scientists to do it. Scepticism is what we are all about. 7 Feb The chemical revolt. BPA in baby bottles. Phthalates in children's books. Lead in toys. As parents' awareness of potential toxins in the home has grown in recent years, so has their anxiety. Minnesota has helped lead the way to regulate worrisome chemicals, and federal reform. 7 Feb Toxic trinkets. Cadmium, a carcinogenic heavy metal, has surfaced as the latest villain lurking in the kids' toy and jewelry aisles. 7 Feb A reality check on autism and vaccines. Many worried and angry parents of an autistic child believe that vaccines may cause the disease. But it's pure myth - disproved by numerous studies and now a final slap from a British journal disowning a report that started the dangerous nonsense. 6 Feb A welcome retraction. What is indisputable is that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. We hope that The Lancet?s belated retraction will finally lay this damaging myth about autism and vaccines to rest. 6 Feb Vaccination vindication. It has been obvious for years that a British study positing a possible link between a common vaccine combination and autism failed the physician's injunction to "do no harm." Still, it's significant that the Lancet has retracted the discredited study. 5 Feb Journal retracts flawed study linking MMR vaccine and autism. The Lancet has retracted a 1998 study that kindled a firestorm of opposition to vaccines by suggesting that autism arose in a handful of children because they had received measles-mumps-rubella shots 5 Feb Lancet accepts MMR study 'false.' The medical journal which originally published the discredited research linking autism and MMR has now issued a full retraction of the paper. 5 Feb New episodes of scientists behaving badly. "The experiments never turned out the way they were supposed to, and so we were always having to fudge the results so that the projects wouldn't be screwy. I always felt guilty about that dishonesty, but now I feel like we were doing real science." 4 Feb Lancet spikes autism report. The medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a 1998 study linking autism with inoculation against three childhood illnesses, a paper that caused an uproar and an enduring backlash against vaccination. 4 Feb Flawed autism study won't stop vaccine critics. Since 1998, numerous studies have found no link between vaccines and autism, and yet parents' fears have endured. Indeed, vaccination rates in the U.K., which dropped after the publication of Wakefield's paper, never fully rebounded, and measles cases have taken off in Britain. 4 Feb Obese people struggle with their genes. People who are morbidly obese lack a tiny stretch of DNA containing around 30 genes, according to the investigation released on Wednesday by the British journal Nature. 4 Feb Debunking the link between autism and vaccination. The Wakefield case is a scary example of how science can fail to get its message across, with literally fatal consequences. Processes have failed here that need serious, ongoing thought. 4 Feb Vaccine scare shows how emotions can trump facts. Yesterday, the medical journal the Lancet retracted a 12-year-old paper by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, which helped fan a scare about vaccines and autism. |