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Reconsidering the Nature of Autism

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Todd Drezner has a new piece up on the Huffington Post: Reconsidering the Nature of Autism. He starts out by quoting the forward to one of Jenny McCarthy’s books. The forward is by alternative medical practitioner Jerry Kartzinel. Here is what Mr. Drezner wrote in his introduction: “Autism … steals the soul from a child; [...]

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Book Sales: The Age of Autism and Callous Disregard

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

I tapped my source one last time for book sales figures for “The Age of Autism” and “Callous Disregard”. The Age of Autism was written by Mark Blaxill (board member of SafeMinds and one of the three principle editors of the blog, Age of Autism) and Dan Olmsted (former UPI editor, principle editor and, from [...]

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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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Reading Age of Autism Part 6 – everything old is new again

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

If I had to take a guess I’d say Part I of Age of Autism was written primarily by Dan Olmsted and (so far) Part II is written primarily by Mark Blaxill. Why? Well, Part I is well written bullshit with a decent narrative flow and is full of new (if wrong) ideas. Part II [...]

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