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Rethinking Expertise II

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Recenty, I discussed a new book, Rethinking Expertise. The author took the position that there is a danger in the idea that everyone can be an expert on anything—all that is needed is an internet connection. What I found most troublesome was the idea that “vaccine scares” were used as a prime example of this [...]

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Sometimes the HuffPo gets it almost right

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Regular readers will know of my concern regarding the HuffingtonPost and its clear antivax agenda. Kim Stagliano, David Kirby and (I think) Barbara Loe Fischer post there and whilst I don’t believe David has an antivax belief, I do think he is unfortunately promoting unfounded statements that feed antivax talking points (eg the claim HHS [...]

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Posted in Autism, Barack Obama, Blogging, David Kirby, Elaine Hall, Hannah Poling, John McCain, Neal Hall, The Miracle Project | 3 Comments »

Story Time With Darwin

Friday, October 24th, 2008

When Autism’s False Prophets hit the shelves—heck even before—there was a lot of buzz in the online community. Lot’s of reviews were posted on blogs. There seemed to be a strong correlation between people who actually read the book and people who favorably reviewed the book. AFP was chosen for the Science Blogs Book Club. [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism, Autism Books, Autism's False Prophets, Paul Offit, Science Blogs Book Club | 21 Comments »

More presidential autism politics

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

I don’t know how things work in the U.K., but in the U.S. there is a long tradition of giving the Vice President a special role. The VP gets to say the the controversial things the president wants to try as a “Trial Balloon”. You see, people in America vote against candidates as much or [...]

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