Op Ed-Plus: Further Commentary on the Work of Mark and David Geier
When examining the work of Mark and David Geier (and by extension, the work of their various coauthors), it becomes readily apparent that their rationales for administering Lupron and chelation therapy...
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Evidence for Chelation in Autism: Slim to None (Okay, Really None)
In a show of institutional wisdom, the NIMH recently scrapped the idea of studying chelation therapy in autistic children. The study would have been the first well-controlled trial in autistic...
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Chelation Challenge for Mercury Toxicity Is “A Scam”
Among those who maintain that autism is the consequence of environmental mercury poisoning, the use of “provocation” or “challenge” doses of chelators (eg, a “Kelmer challenge test”) is frequently...
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Tell Me, Is the Capital of France Still Paris?
In an effort to initiate some kind of corrective, but arguably foolhardy, dialog with the editors of the Journal of the Neurological Sciences—who recently published an autism-biomarker study by Geier...
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JNS Reviewer: Geier et al “Clearly Not Objective”
In response to my concerns regarding the recently published (online) autism-biomarker study by Geier et al in the Journal of Neurological Sciences, editor-in-chief Robert Lisak asked 2 “distinguished...
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Geiers Featured in Chicago Tribune
And not to flattering effect. The Chicago Tribune, a high-profile newspaper with a generally less-than-stellar reputation, nevertheless gets it right with its recent coverage of the father-and-son duo...
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Geiers Target Dental Amalgam
Sometimes even Mark and David Geier can flog only a partial confession out of data. The father-son duo, along with frequent coauthor Janet Kern, were able to publish yet another study implicating at...
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Geiers’ Studies Discredited in Federal Vaccine Opinions
As just about everyone knows by now, the Special Masters of the US Court of Federal Claims handed down their decisions on Friday, which deny a causative link between the vaccine preservative...
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Miami Herald: Florida Chiropractor Demands Geiers’ Access to State Vaccine...
A politically influential Florida chiropractor wants Mark and David Geier, proponents of the debunked link between the vaccine preservative thimerosal and autism and hawkers of chelation and Lupron,...
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Geier’s Medical License Suspended
A big HT to the neurodiversity weblog on this story. The medical license of Mark Geier, MD, PhD—whose dubious studies of and conclusions about autism (particularly with respect to the thoroughly...
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