Melanie Penner

Show Review: PUP, Jeff Rosenstock and Ekko Astral at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA – New Noise Magazine It’s been 10 years since PUP and Jeff Rosenstock went on tour together. And let’s just say it didn’t go as planned. In a short period of time the Rosenstock van broke down twice, PUP’s singer Stefan B...

Check out our live shots of PUP, @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social, and @ekkoastral.bsky.social

Everything old is new again, including a new twist on blaming moms for autism.

I’m struck by how quickly the news cycle moves on. So much chaos unfurled <2 weeks ago in the autism world, yet most media and gen pop are on to the next dozen things. I’m still reeling.

Important to remember that stories about children killed by vaccine-preventable diseases when they're too young to be vaccinated are, beneath that, stories about the loss of herd immunity.

This baby caught whooping cough from somebody. That somebody was probably old enough to be vaccinated.

In this interview, we get beyond the unfounded associations and dig into the impacts on autistic people and their families, and also what a better world might look like. It was therapeutic for me and I hope it is for you too.

Video: Donald Trump links Tylenol with autism, doctors say connection is unproven U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday there was a link between the use of popular over-the-counter pain medication Tylenol and the development of autism during pregnancy, a claim which many docto...

Let’s talk about autism. And pregnant women. And Tylenol. Q+A w/ Dr. Melanie Penner by Sherrill Sutherland on The Decibel podcast.
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This only happens to you once

Imagine a press conference dedicated to the link between advanced paternal age and autism, where older men are advised to just tough it out?

Gillian, this meme is getting me through the week

White woman in a tv clip speaking in front of a wall of concert posters, including a prominent feature of Bjork

Fighting autism slander AND promoting Icelandic pop. She’s doing it all this week, folks

Opinion | ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks

This little resonates: ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

RFK Jr: The Amish don't have autism

The Amish:

Me, when confronting my water bottle for the day

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in.

Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol.

It's like his work never happened.

My man David Byrne released a new album this month

(Taps sign)

Hellloooooo, journalists! Covering the Mon announcement abt #autism? CHECK OUT the last 3 @thinkingautism.com newsletters for background on the loooong trail of grift in mitochondria-autism industry, starting w/a man who co-authored entire study abt his own daughter w/o disclosing the relationship.🧵

After this autism press conference I am team rapture

Mothers' Rejection Blamed For Autism --Anaheim Bulletin, 12 Apr 1973

1973

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Dear Lord this is so much worse than I thought

This trial and its author were presented uncritically in a CBS news segment in Feb 2025, which seemed to kick off the hype machine

Anyone citing the 2018 randomized trial in support of leucovorin for autism should go have a look at its trial registration: terminated for non-compliance 👀 clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT016...

Just read an opinion article in the Globe and Mail decrying over-diagnosis of mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions. Somehow, the advice provided is for parents to fight against their child receiving a professional assessment.

Hard to express how dangerous I think this messaging is.

A crocheted Patti smith

Patti smith from Horses

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Being an #autism scientist these days is like being stuck in a glitchy Time Machine that can only lurch between 1998 and 2010

Get in the pit for PUP

Yes!!!!

Hi! It’s not Tylenol!

Forcing us to knit/crochet our stashes.