Mark Blaxill's written comments to IACC

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When Science and Health Policy Trumps Inconvenient Evidence

http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/07/when-science-and-health-policy-trumps-inconve\

nient-evidence.html

My name is Mark Blaxill. I am the co-author of the book, /The Age of

Autism/ <http://danolmsted.com/> and recently helped to launch a

movement called The Canary Party <http://www.canaryparty.org/>, which

was created to stand up for the victims of medical injury, environmental

toxins and industrial foods. Unfortunately, we need to stand up for

these victims, the proverbial “canaries in the coal mine,†because so

many of them cannot speak for themselves. I am also the father of a 16

year old daughter diagnosed with autism. Thanks to biomedical

interventions and therapy, a is more verbal, social and flexible

than most affected children, but sadly, she will not live independently.

She most certainly does not have a capacity for self-advocacy, so (like

most affected individuals) her parents must speak for her.

Unfortunately, the climate for parent advocates, never favorable in

autism, has grown progressively more hostile....

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