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There’s been plenty of debate about whether or not there is an epidemic of autism; about whether or not the increase in the prevalence rate of autism (now 1 in 150) is due to our being better able to diagnose and count cases of autism, or whether there is some actual something that can be […]
Parents don’t cause autism and neither do vaccines.
Further: More and more evidence is being found that rejects the hypothesis that there is a link between autism and mercury; more and more evidence is also being found that rejects the hypothesis that there is a link between autism and the MMR vaccine.
Nonetheless: Proponents of the hypothesis […]
This is the Taj Mahal, Donald Trump style.
This is the real Taj Mahal.
This is Donald Trump’s take on autism and vaccines.
This is the CDC stating that there is no valid scientific evidence to link vaccines or anything in vaccines to autism.
It’s just me, but I’d rather be at the real Taj Mahal than the Atlantic […]
“Autism is a tragedy.” “It is a tragedy to find out that your child has autism.” “It is a tragedy that so many children today are being diagnosed with autism.” How often have you heard statements such as these? (Try here and here.) Or a reference to life with autism as “hell,” as recently mentioned […]
Dilshad D. Ali recounts how life with her now six-year-old autistic son first led her to lose her faith (she and her husband are devout Muslims), and then “reinvigorated” her to become “a better Muslim.” In the January 24th Daily Inspiration in Beliefnet, Ali writes about the despair she felt at her son’s diagnosis and […]
On reviewing the topics of my ten most recent posts, I have detected a common thread:
Definitions: Prevalence and Epidemic
An Epidemic of Discovery
A theory of attraction…….and epidemic?
See it?
Even though whether autism is an epidemic appears to be the autism topic du jour, this post will not be on this subject.
This post is about the experience […]
But is there, in fact, an autism epidemic?
Asks Arthur Allen today in a review of Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism by Roy Richard Grinker in today’s Slate. Allen, author of Vaccine, continues:
Most of the scientists who study the disease—though not all—believe that any increase in recent decades in autism incidence, as […]
CAN co-founded Portia Iversen’s recently published book Strange Son is subtitled “Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism.” The two sons are Iversen’s own autistic son, now adolescent son, Dov, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, who, while “severely” autistic (as Iversen continually stresses), is able to communicate […]
George Washington University anthropology professor Roy Richard Grinker’s important book, will be published next month. An interview with him about autism’s many meanings appears in the January 15th US News and World Report; you can read it online today. The questions posed to Grinker, father of 15-year-old Isabel, are familiar:
Why has the number […]
Teenage boy, “slightly autistic,” is arrested on charges of murdering his mother and then tracks down the real killers…….
This is the plot of the 2005 movie Raam from India. The IMDB summary describes Raam (played by Jeeva, described by one source as “one of the most promising actors of Kollywood”) as ” a mentally affected […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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