Soapbox: Andrew Wakefield and Scientific Misconduct

By Rick Colosimo / February 8, 2009 /

When I was pregnant, I thought I should wear a t-shirt with the following: December 5. I don’t know. No, I just cannot be within a 5-foot radius of ham or any other pork product. This was because every random stranger asked me, “When are you due? What are you having? Do you have any…

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Focusing the national agenda on autism

By Rick Colosimo / January 21, 2009 / Comments Off on Focusing the national agenda on autism

There are about a zillion autism organizations, and many of them have at least some lobbying component. Here at 30seats, we’re generally more focused on thinking about direct action, either in terms of directly helping families in their own homes or in their efforts to secure early intensive behavioral interventions (EIBI) for their children (including…

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Costs of caring

By Rick Colosimo / December 2, 2008 / Comments Off on Costs of caring

The NYT today has a post about the cost of caring for an elderly parent. One of the projects on our writing list is an article about measuring the soft costs of having an autistic child. We call these soft costs because one standard measure of evaluating medical treatments from a public health or insurance…

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