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		<title>Moving on</title>
		<link>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/moving-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Action for Autism is moving. And it has its own name now.
http://actionforautism.co.uk/ 
I look forward to seeing you there.
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		<title>Vaccines, autism and actresses.</title>
		<link>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/vaccines-autism-and-actresses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Wakefield]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MMR]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vaccines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[influenza]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Garner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jenny McCarthy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jenny versus Jennifer
How would you describe an actress and a mother who makes public statements about the nation&#8217;s vaccination programme?
Brainwashed simpleton?
That is a bit strong, even when applied to Jenny McCarthy. But this is the EOHarm email list passing judgement on a different actress, Jennifer Garner whose crime was to speak up in favour of vaccines, namely the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism Education Trust</title>
		<link>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/autism-education-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Autistic Society]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[aspergers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Autism Education Trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The National Autistic Society website proudly proclaims that they are now hosting the Autism Education Trust.
The National Autistic Society is delighted to host the Autism Education Trust and welcomes the opportunity to work in partnership with colleagues across the sector. The trust will play an important role in sharing best practice, influencing decision makers, developing [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mike Stanton</media:title>
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		<title>Judge Rotenberg Center - latest research</title>
		<link>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/judge-rotenberg-center-latest-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Rotenberg Center]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quackery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Side effects of contingent shock treatment
W.M.W.J. van Oorsouw(a) M.L. Israel(b) R.E. von Heyn(b) and P.C. Duker(a)
(a)Pluryn Werkenrode Groep (Winckelsteegh) and Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(b)Judge Rotenberg Center, Canton, MA, USA 

Received 20 August 2007;  accepted 29 August 2007.  Available online 22 October 2007.

Abstract
In this study, the side effects of contingent shock (CS) treatment were addressed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think Differently Campaign and Treating Autism</title>
		<link>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/think-differently-campaign-and-treating-autism/</link>
		<comments>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/think-differently-campaign-and-treating-autism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Autistic Society]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[autism acceptance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[autism advocacy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[parents]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[think differently about autism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent today published a letter signed by leading members of Treating Autism, [TA] a UK charity which believes that autism is treatable using the biomedical methods championed by Defeat Autism Now!  Their main complaint against the National Autistic Society&#8217;s Think Differently Campaign is that it paints too rosy a picture of autism, ignores the suffering of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neuroscience and Autism</title>
		<link>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/neuroscience-and-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[genetic research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[neuroscience]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[expert object recognition pathways]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fusiform gyrus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brains that go bump in the night.
Brain science has come a long way in the last 200 years. We look back at the early efforts of the phrenologists to map personality, behaviour and mental abilities onto specific organs of the brain with amusement. But that is only because their methodology was so woefully inadequate. These brain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think differently about autism</title>
		<link>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/think-differently-about-autism/</link>
		<comments>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/think-differently-about-autism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Autistic Society]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[aspergers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Today the National Autistic Society launches its &#8220;think differently&#8221; campaign. We want to spread the word that autism need not be so devastating and disabling if only  people would take the time to understand it and make the effort to adapt our schools and workplaces and public spaces to make them autism friendly.
To that end [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mike Stanton</media:title>
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		<title>Judge Rotenberg Center - Close it Down!</title>
		<link>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/judge-rotenberg-center-close-it-down/</link>
		<comments>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/judge-rotenberg-center-close-it-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Autism rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Judge Rotenberg Center]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shock Tactics is yet another detailed account of the abuse carried out on people at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Over half the inmates at this institution are wired to a device called the GED that delivers painful electric shocks at the push of a button. At one time the use of electric shocks on severely disturbed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jenny McCarthy: responding to criticism</title>
		<link>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/jenny-mccarthy-responding-to-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/jenny-mccarthy-responding-to-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[DAN!]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quackery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[autism parents]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vaccines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jenny McCarthy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First, an apology.
My offline existence has led me to neglect Action For Autism recently. This at a time when my blog has never been more popular. But I have no illusions about the reason. It is all down to Jenny McCarthy. I wrote a couple of short pieces about her and Google did the rest. As a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Rotenberg Center again</title>
		<link>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/judge-rotenberg-center-again/</link>
		<comments>http://mikestanton.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/judge-rotenberg-center-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Autism rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Judge Rotenberg Center]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Israel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Derrick Jeffries - Person with Asperger’s Syndrome and Nancy Weiss - Co-Director, The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities, Center for Disabilities Studies, University of Delaware have issued
A Call for Ethical and Unprejudiced Leadership and Practice in the Field 
which I was pleased to sign. The letter begins like this:
&#8220;This letter is to the American Psychological Association [...]]]></description>
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