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Ken Reibel is a Milwaukee-based writer and father of two who blogs about media and autism at AutismNewsBeat.com . Comments can be emailed here.

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Racial Harassment Alleged During Arrest of Autistic Teen

Posted June 28, 2010 | 12:36:00 (EST)

The disturbing case of Reginald Cornelius Latson, the autistic young man arrested in Virginia last month, has taken an even more disturbing turn. His mother, Lisa Alexander, told an internet-based radio audience Sunday night that Stafford County deputies used racist slurs against her son when they stopped and...

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Teen With Asperger's Arrested: Were Callers Racial Profiling?

Posted June 15, 2010 | 16:17:00 (EST)

Reginald Latson loves to walk.

"He'll walk five or 10 miles, it's nothing to him. Sometimes he walks five miles just to grab a bite to eat at Chili's," says his mother, Lisa, who lives in Stafford, Virginia. "Walking is his release."

Neli, as his family calls him, is 18...

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Is Wakefield Losing His Base?

Posted June 4, 2010 | 15:44:00 (EST)

Andrew Wakefield says he is not going away, but if last week's anti-vaccine rally in Chicago is any indication, his audience is.

An estimated 100 anti-vaccine activists turned out to hear Wakefield and 13 other speakers on a sunny day in Grant Park. If you add event volunteers, vendors, press,...

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T-Cell Party Patriots

Posted May 18, 2010 | 12:44:51 (EST)

Is the anti-vaccine movement looking to Sarah Palin's Tea Party Nation for inspiration? It seems that way, given that Jenny McCarthy's angry mob is calling its May 26 rally in Chicago's Grant Park "An American Rally for Personal Rights."

It's been two years since McCarthy led 2,500 parents...

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