Series of Autism Articles in the Chicago Tribune
I was linked to a series of article on alternative autism therapy via the blog A Photon In The Darkness which aptly titled the entry The Chicago Tribune turns over some rocks. Why is it apt? Because:
Almost everybody knows what happens when you turn over rocks in the garden - you find slugs, beetles and other slimy and creepy-crawly things underneath.
Well, the Chicago Tribune recently (21 and 22 May, 2009) came out with a two-day series of articles on what they found when they turned over some rocks in the “alternative” autism therapy world. What they found was beyond what I would have expected, and I’ve been critically analyzing “alternative” autism therapy for a fairly long time.
Anyway, go look at the entry and follow the links. I think that the articles that detail how two of the doctors promoting some of this crap blame the deaths of babies that they've delivered on parents is particularly charming:
"In some of the cases, he blamed the parents of the babies who died -- claiming one mom "killed the baby" and saying another was a "high-risk person we shouldn't have taken care of."
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"In an interview, Rosi blamed some of the parents for their babies' deaths.
"Eighty percent of complications in childbirth are psychological," he said. "Babies can be killed by a mother's attitude."
Almost everybody knows what happens when you turn over rocks in the garden - you find slugs, beetles and other slimy and creepy-crawly things underneath.
Well, the Chicago Tribune recently (21 and 22 May, 2009) came out with a two-day series of articles on what they found when they turned over some rocks in the “alternative” autism therapy world. What they found was beyond what I would have expected, and I’ve been critically analyzing “alternative” autism therapy for a fairly long time.
Anyway, go look at the entry and follow the links. I think that the articles that detail how two of the doctors promoting some of this crap blame the deaths of babies that they've delivered on parents is particularly charming:
"In some of the cases, he blamed the parents of the babies who died -- claiming one mom "killed the baby" and saying another was a "high-risk person we shouldn't have taken care of."
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"In an interview, Rosi blamed some of the parents for their babies' deaths.
"Eighty percent of complications in childbirth are psychological," he said. "Babies can be killed by a mother's attitude."