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Posted on Friday December 25th, 2009 at 17:47 in autism, neurobiology, fgf, prefrontal lobe, neocortex, big brains, minicolumns
In spite of our bipedalism, tool-making, sweat glands, and opposable thumbs, the thing we deem as the defining human characteristic is ironically something we share, to a certain extent, with many organisms and certainly all mammals: a brain. Even t...
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Posted on Thursday December 24th, 2009 at 21:29 in autism, neurodiversity, ari ne'eman, autism myths
To paraphrase Mark Twain, a phony statistic will travel half way around the world before the truth can get its boots on – and even further when the phony statistic is hitched to the wagon of vaccine denialism. A case in point: last June, blo...
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Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 16:24 in autism, paul offit, age of autism, dan olmsted, mark blaxill
I’m critical of the Age of Autism blog and their so called “editors”. That comes as no news to anyone who has read this blog, I’m sure. But I found an odd bit in David N. Brown’s recent piece, Paul Offit’s Mythi...
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Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 23:00 in autism, ari ne'eman, asan
There is a myth that is spreading around the internet. The myth that neurodiversity means denying that autism is a disability. I see this over and over on this blog in the comments. I see it elsewhere in blogs that put truth second to promoting t...
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Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 13:23 in autism, vaccines, paul offit, age of autism, dan olmsted, mark blaxill
This is a PUBLIC DOMAIN document (dated 12/11/09, revised 12/12). It may be copied, forwarded, cited, circulated or posted elsewhere. The author requests only that it not be altered from its current form. Breaking news: Dan Olmsted and AoA have ...
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Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 19:50 in autism
I was literally just about to write a post referencing Kim Peek when I found this story on the news: Father says Kim Peek, Utah man who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s ‘Rain Man’ character, dies at 58. Kim Peek was a savant. He was th...
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