Dan Olmstead
On Wednesday, Jan 21st, Dan Olmstead joined Charlottesville Right Now.
Archive for Autism
Dan Olmstead from the Age of Autism
Investigative reporter Dan Olmstead joins Coy Barefoot for the first of several monthly appearances to report on the latest news from the Age of Autism. That’s Olmstead’s new venture - a daily newspaper that covers the autism epidemic.
Coy Barefoot reacts to Michael Savage’s remarks on autism
Coy Barefoot, the father of a six-year-old boy diagnosed with autism and the host of “Charlottesville—Right Now!” shares his reaction to the recent comments of talk show host Michael Savage as well as WINA’s decision yesterday to remove the Savage program from its schedule.
Autism update with David Kirby
Investigative journalist David Kirby is the author of Evidence of Harm, a 2005 book that explores the possible relationships between autism and mercury contained in thimerosal, a preservative uses in some vaccines. In this interview from June 27, 2008, Kirby claims that the Centers for Disease Control used faulty data on one key study of vaccines. Read his article on the Huffington Post for more.
David Kirby: Federal government concedes autism-mercury link in one case
Best-selling author David Kirby is an investigative journalist whose book Evidence of Harm tracked how mercury in vaccines may be connected to the autism epidemic. In a detailed article published February 25 on the Huffington Post, Kirby reported that the federal government has conceded a case before the Court of Federal Claims that a mercury-based preservative in a vaccine may have contributed to a child’s autism:
“The child’s claim against the government — that mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism — was supposed to be one of three “test cases” for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices in Federal Claims Court.”
Kirby goes on to detail the case in this February 28 installment of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now.
“This should change the tenor of the debate,” Kirby said. Could mitochondrial disease play a roll? Kirby wants to know more.
Dan Olmsted with the latest on the quest to explain the autism epidemic
Investigative reporter Dan Olmsted joins Coy Barefoot on the February 7 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to continue the discussion about the autism epidemic. Olmsted is now keeping his readers up to date on a blog called The Age of Autism, which also features articles from other contributers. His work will soon be collected in a new book on the history of mercury poisoning.