On Autism’s Cause It’s Journalist MacNeil v. journalist Mnookin

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absolutely brilliant...........

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Posted on

April 22, 2011 by The

Refusers

By J.B. Handley ­ co-founder of Generation Rescue and a Contributor to

Age of Autism

“During CNN’s lynching of Andy Wakefield, I was talking to one of

’s producers, and she mentioned Seth Mnookin and his

recent book The Panic Virus …

Her: Seth has credibility with the New York media because he is

really one of us, he’s an insider–so his words carry some weight

…

Soon after graduating from Harvard, Mr. Mnookin became a heroin addict,

as he recounts:

“It had been three years since I first tried heroin, snorting a bag by

myself on a brisk Sunday morning the fall after I graduated from college.

I was living in New York City, and within weeks I was using every day. It

had been two years since I had moved back to Boston, ran out of money,

and began shooting up…Now, after about a dozen hospitalizations, a

handful of overdoses, more than $10,000 in credit card cash advances, and

thousands of dollars stolen from my friends and lovers and family, I was

cashing in my last remaining chip. My parents agreed to front the money

for the Renaissance Institute, a hard-core treatment center in Boca Raton

that specialized in intractable addicts. I knew it was the last chance

I’d get to try to start over and that if I didn’t take it, I’d

die.”

As Mr. Mnookin explains about his early career, “I was 25 and had spent

the years since I graduated from college focusing all of my desperate

energy on my career as an intravenous drug addict…At one point, I gave

confused, occasionally incoherent English lessons to Japanese academics

visiting Harvard…I hadn’t done any real writing in years.”

His stay at the Renaissance Institute? It ended poorly:

“A little less than four months later, I was thrown out of Renaissance

for having sex with an 18-year-old from Alabama who worked her doctor for

prescription pain pills and her parents for second chances. I was given

two black Hefty bags filled with my clothes and told I had 10 minutes to

get off the property. I had no money, no credit cards, no place to live.”

…

Thinking back to the CNN producers quick to identify Seth Mnookin as one

of their own, his heroin-chic background somehow a stamp of street-cred

in an oddly P.C. world, I really wonder how they are absorbing a true

lion of the journalism world, MacNeil, and his expertly-produced

series.”

Read the JB Handley Article

Read

Seth Mnookin’s Autobiography from Salon

Watch and Read

Transcripts From The PBS – MacNeil Autism Now Series

[Guest guest]

absolutely brilliant...........

http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/on-autisms-cause-its-journalist-macneil-v-journalist-mnookin/

Posted on

April 22, 2011 by The

Refusers

By J.B. Handley ­ co-founder of Generation Rescue and a Contributor to

Age of Autism

“During CNN’s lynching of Andy Wakefield, I was talking to one of

’s producers, and she mentioned Seth Mnookin and his

recent book The Panic Virus …

Her: Seth has credibility with the New York media because he is

really one of us, he’s an insider–so his words carry some weight

…

Soon after graduating from Harvard, Mr. Mnookin became a heroin addict,

as he recounts:

“It had been three years since I first tried heroin, snorting a bag by

myself on a brisk Sunday morning the fall after I graduated from college.

I was living in New York City, and within weeks I was using every day. It

had been two years since I had moved back to Boston, ran out of money,

and began shooting up…Now, after about a dozen hospitalizations, a

handful of overdoses, more than $10,000 in credit card cash advances, and

thousands of dollars stolen from my friends and lovers and family, I was

cashing in my last remaining chip. My parents agreed to front the money

for the Renaissance Institute, a hard-core treatment center in Boca Raton

that specialized in intractable addicts. I knew it was the last chance

I’d get to try to start over and that if I didn’t take it, I’d

die.”

As Mr. Mnookin explains about his early career, “I was 25 and had spent

the years since I graduated from college focusing all of my desperate

energy on my career as an intravenous drug addict…At one point, I gave

confused, occasionally incoherent English lessons to Japanese academics

visiting Harvard…I hadn’t done any real writing in years.”

His stay at the Renaissance Institute? It ended poorly:

“A little less than four months later, I was thrown out of Renaissance

for having sex with an 18-year-old from Alabama who worked her doctor for

prescription pain pills and her parents for second chances. I was given

two black Hefty bags filled with my clothes and told I had 10 minutes to

get off the property. I had no money, no credit cards, no place to live.”

…

Thinking back to the CNN producers quick to identify Seth Mnookin as one

of their own, his heroin-chic background somehow a stamp of street-cred

in an oddly P.C. world, I really wonder how they are absorbing a true

lion of the journalism world, MacNeil, and his expertly-produced

series.”

Read the JB Handley Article

Read

Seth Mnookin’s Autobiography from Salon

Watch and Read

Transcripts From The PBS – MacNeil Autism Now Series