The Autism Science Foundation hosts live chats on Fridays during April. Tomorrow they will have chats with David Amaral (of the U.C. Davis MIND Institute) at 12noon eastern time and Jill Locke (of U Penn) at 2pm eastern time. The chats can be found at the ASF website.
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This weekend I saw another production of La Cage Aux Folles. The song “I am what I am” has long been one of my favorites, and the lyrics are posted in my kid’s room. I’ve posted this before, with some explanation. This time, I invite you to listen, read the lyrics and, if you don’t […]
The CDC came out with an autism prevalence estimate a few days ago. There have been a number of news stories on the subject and the usual attempts by credulous websites to use this to claim that vaccines cause autism. It’s right there at the top, in the interpretations section of the abstract: Because the […]
The CDC came out with a new autism prevalence estimate yesterday. Their estimated autism prevalence is 1.68%. That’s up from the estimate from 2 years ago (1.46%), but lower than a different recent study (2.76%). I’m going to discuss some minor-league shenanigans. It’s no surprise that some groups abuse facts and cherry pick data to make […]
The CDC recently published another autism prevalence study. It’s 23 pages long and has 26 authors, took 2 years to put together and no doubt cost millions of dollars. Out of that, the one fact from it that will be quoted is simply–the autism rate is now at 1.68%, or 1 in 59. There’s so […]
We are often told to be “aware” of autism. But what does that do, really? With awareness comes acceptance. And for my son acceptance means being able to live his life. A few years ago, I took my son for a walk to our local shopping center. We have done this every weekend day since […]
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