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I've changed my comment policy slightly. I'm enabling comment moderation in posts that are older than 365 days.
This morning I got spammed in a way I've never been spamm ...
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Of course, we already knew that. There's a prior survey by Easter Seals on the question of divorce among the parents of autistic people .
Readers might remember I also ta ...
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MJ has written of my post on the media's interest in the anti-vax movement .
MJ's primary argument is basically that the absolute article count for "autism vaccines" ...
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The anti-vax movement peaked in 2002, maybe in 2003. There are several different lines of evidence that point in this direction. I recently presented just two of them: G ...
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In the previous post I argued that a Bass Diffusion Model fits the administrative prevalence of autism in California remarkably well , and made specific predictions based on ...
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There's a new paper on the rise of autism diagnoses in California: Liu et al. (2010) . Its findings are probably not surprising to my readers, I would imagine. It finds that ...
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Over at Science-Based Medicine , Dr. David Gorski has written a post about email exchanges he had with a reporter named Steven Higgs . I exchanged some emails with Dr. Gorsk ...
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Note: This post is about John Best Jr. from Hew Hampshire, owner of the Hating Autism blog, AKA Fore Sam. The name John Best is a fairly common name, evidently.
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For those who keep trying to invoke the "Galileo gambit" in order to defend Andrew Wakefield, let me explain something real quick. Wakefield is not Galileo for two key reaso ...
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The recent Chicago Tribune Articles have resulted in a flurry of reactions , particularly from AoA. I'd like to discuss just one of them in this post. Kent Heckenlively was ...
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I'm just going to link to the Chicago Tribune Articles below.
Autism treatments: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science
Autism treatment: Success st ...
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What would be the value of telling a parent of a recently diagnosed autistic child that the child will never be able to hold a job, if this is unlikely to be true for a good m ...
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Dear reader: Please go read Jon Mitchell's utterly dishonest attack on my two latest posts. It's titled .
First of all, I'd like to inform Jon that even though I've said ...
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In the previous post I discussed data that contradicts the common belief that autistic adults are largely unemployed.
In this post I want to discuss marriage. Marriage, a ...
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I've previously criticized estimates of the "costs of autism" to society . The whole rationale of coming up with such estimates is objectionable to begin with, but I've also ...
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Over two years ago I wrote a post titled Moving Toward a New Consensus Prevalence of 1% or Higher. At the time the prevalence of ASD was generally considered to be 0.6%. If yo ...
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There was media coverage recently about the discovery of the "first common" set of autism gene variants. The alleles are apparently found in 65% of autistic people. What's int ...
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There's been some renewed California "epidemic" talk recently because of a report released by California DDS ( this one ) despite the usual DDS disclaimer to the effect that ...
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Just when I thought I wouldn't encounter better examples of the intellectual bankrupcy of anti-vaxers, comes Dr. Jay Gordon, pediatrician to Jenny McCarthy's son, with the fol ...
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I'm sure readers are aware fellow blogger Alyric passed away last week. Subsequent to her passing, there has been some discussion about something called (CADD), which Alyri ...
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