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Reading Age of Autism – All I can handle, I’m no Vladimir Nabokov

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

I read Dan Olmsted’s latest post on Age of Autism and was reminded I had yet to publish a closing post on my experiences with the book. Here’s a quote from Dan: It’s doubly disappointing to see traditionally progressive outlets – from Salon to Daily Kos to The Atlantic to National Public Radio and PBS [...]

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No association between XMRV and autism?

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Recently there has been growing interest in XMRV (Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus) and autism. I haven’t discussed it here on LeftBrainRightBrain as it has been very preliminary. Well, it looks like I may not ever get into this story in depth as XMRV appears to not be associated with autism. From ERV at ScienceBlogs, [...]

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It’s time to get past the idea that autism is genetics

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Or, at least, this is what David Kirby has to say in a recent interview. Yes, I’m tired of David Kirby too. But some statements are just plain silly. “I don’t believe autism is genetics,” he said. “I wish we could just get past that argument and accept the fact that these kids have been [...]

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Autism Epidemic Talk

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

A couple of slap dash blog pieces appeared today both on the same subject – the so called autism epidemic. First off is Harold who writes about a series of interviews with David Kirby. David says: It’s crazy that in this debate, we’re still debating whether autism numbers are actually going up or not, which [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, David Kirby, Epidemiology, Eric Fombonne, Paul Offit, Science, Simon Baron-Cohen | 44 Comments »