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26 May 2010, 3:47 pm

I interviewed Allison Singer of the Autism Science Foundation at IMFAR. Here's the story:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/article385.html

Here's the video:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpG1VsNilLM[/youtube]



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26 May 2010, 3:50 pm

Excited to look at it. Thanks, Mr. Alex. :)


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26 May 2010, 3:52 pm

Ferdinand wrote:
Excited to look at it. Thanks, Mr. Alex. :)


You're welcome. 8)



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26 May 2010, 3:59 pm

Thank goodness I'm not but a 90's-00's kid.

You have a gift though, Alex. Loved it.


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26 May 2010, 4:13 pm

Thank you very much Alex.

I love the "Autism Talk TV" series.


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26 May 2010, 4:16 pm

What happened at Willowbrook? The lady said "I think we all know what happened at Willowbrook." I searched for it and there was a website describing how people were badly treated at an institution. Can anyone elaborate on what Willowbrook is all about? Thanks.



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26 May 2010, 4:30 pm

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What happened at Willowbrook? The lady said "I think we all know what happened at Willowbrook." I searched for it and there was a website describing how people were badly treated at an institution. Can anyone elaborate on what Willowbrook is all about? Thanks.


according to wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School

Here's another source:

http://hstraining.orda.ucsb.edu/willowbrook.htm

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The subjects, all children, were deliberately infected with the hepatitis virus; early subjects were fed extracts of stools from infected individuals and later subjects received injections of more purified virus preparations.

Investigators defended the deliberate injection of these children by pointing out that the vast majority of them acquired the infection anyway while at Willowbrook, and perhaps it would be better for them to be infected under carefully controlled research conditions.



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26 May 2010, 5:35 pm

alex wrote:
jc6chan wrote:
What happened at Willowbrook? The lady said "I think we all know what happened at Willowbrook." I searched for it and there was a website describing how people were badly treated at an institution. Can anyone elaborate on what Willowbrook is all about? Thanks.


according to wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School

Here's another source:

http://hstraining.orda.ucsb.edu/willowbrook.htm

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The subjects, all children, were deliberately infected with the hepatitis virus; early subjects were fed extracts of stools from infected individuals and later subjects received injections of more purified virus preparations.

Investigators defended the deliberate injection of these children by pointing out that the vast majority of them acquired the infection anyway while at Willowbrook, and perhaps it would be better for them to be infected under carefully controlled research conditions.

Wow, thats ridiculous. Thats like saying that if a few people on a plane had SARS then they might as well inject SARS to all the passengers.



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26 May 2010, 7:28 pm

alex wrote:
I interviewed Allison Singer of the Autism Science Foundation at IMFAR. Here's the story:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/article385.html

Here's the video:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpG1VsNilLM[/youtube]


aint she form autism everday :x :x :x :x



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26 May 2010, 7:41 pm

Yea, wasn't she at one point in the autism speaks video that you posted ages ago?


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26 May 2010, 7:46 pm

Allison the Singer topic

I wonder how her daughter is doing. :roll:


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26 May 2010, 7:47 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7NTfZzS9b8&feature=PlayList&p=C8ECB8ADD9A733BB&playnext_from=PL&playnext=[/youtube]

they look like they can be twins



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26 May 2010, 8:14 pm

Oh dear.


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26 May 2010, 9:59 pm

Wow. What. Is. Going. On.
I've looked up Allison Singer and she is associated with Autism Speaks.
http://www.newsweek.com/2009/01/15/this ... wered.html

http://www.autismspeaks.org/whatisit/si ... entary.php
It's definitely her in that Autism Speaks video. And she mentions NOTHING about her daughter in this video!


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26 May 2010, 10:04 pm

she doesn't work for them anymore. although i did get to interview the current vice president of autism speaks. I confronted him about the cure issue.



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26 May 2010, 10:06 pm

You think she has an account here?


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