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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

The complaint against Dr. Roy Kerry, negligent killer of Abubakar Tariq Nadama

After not having written anything about the case of Abubakar Tariq Nadama, the five year old autistic boy who died as a result of chelation therapy administered to him to “cure” him of his autism, I revisited the case last week in light of the State of Pennsylvania filing charges against Dr. Kerry, the “alternative […]

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Justice for Abubakar Tariq Nadama at last?

A little more than a year ago, an autistic boy named Abubakar Tariq Nadama died of a cardiac arrest due to hypocalcemia at the hands of an “alternative medicine” practitioner named Dr. Roy Kerry while chelation therapy was being administered to him intravenously. Dr. Kerry, who trained as an ENT doctor, now bills himself as […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Vaccines and relative risks

Holy crap. I suspected that my two posts about Dawn Winkler, the antivaccination activist running for Governor of Colorado on the Libertarian ticket, might generate some comments and attract some of Dawn’s fellow antivaxers to the comments. Little did I suspect just how many, or how hysterical they would become. Because yesterday was a travel […]

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Anti-vaccination activist running for governor of the state of Colorado?

Unfortunately for them, folks in Colorado have a hard core anti-vaxer named Dawn Winkler running for governor on the Libertarian ticket. I’m hoping for their sakes that, as a third party candidate, that she has virtually no chance of winning. Check out some of her rhetoric posted on Whale.to seven years ago in response to […]

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

I got the poison?

While I’m back on the subject of autism, I thought I’d post this video that Kevin Leitch created while I was on vacation and posted to YouTube. Let’s just say that it takes a rather dim view of autism “advocates,” particularly the autism=mercury poisoning crowd. I particularly love the picture of J. B. Handley that […]