Kathleen Seidel prevails. She has successfully quashed the absurd Shoemaker subpoena that triggered an outpouring of support for neurodiversity.com and its own I’m Kathleen movement.
Kathleen will post a pdf of the order to quash as soon as she can.
A good result; a good day for commonsense and for blogging.
Update 29 April: Excellent article about Kathleen Seidel in the Concord Monitor: A forceful voice in autism debate.
She is the Erin Brockovich of autism spectrum disorders,” said Irving Gottesman, a psychiatry professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School who studies the causes of autism and is convinced that there is no vaccine link. Gottesman compared Seidel’s investigative work to what he’d expect from a research team of several graduate students working under a professor. “Amazing,” he said, for an amateur.
But critics are suspicious of Seidel’s passion and the volume of her work. In interviews, several advocates raised the possibility that Seidel is being secretly paid by pharmaceutical companies, an allegation Seidel denies
Fine discussion by Orac: Kathleen Seidel and her opponents
Update May 3: Clifford Shoemaker and the Sykes have decided to voluntarily dismiss their lawsuit against Bayer which makes it the more remarkable that Shoemaker attempted to involve Kathleen Seidel and Dr. Marie McCormick to the point of issuing subpoenas.
8 Comments
April 22, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Excellent news – definitely a good result. Nice to see that sanction against Shoemaker’s mentioned, too.
April 22, 2008 at 7:27 pm
…and good day for justice.
April 22, 2008 at 10:27 pm
It will be a red-letter day if Shoemaker does incur sanctions…
April 22, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I can popz shampain nau, plz?
(CHEERS!)
April 22, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Lots of I’m Kathleen kittehs looking to pop shampain or give thanks to ceiling cat.
April 26, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Nice post
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