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Autism Vox

May 7th, 2008

Wanted: Powerful Science Advisor (for the next president)

An article in the May Scientific American explains why the next president needs a powerful science advisor.
If you consider the political pandering among the presidential candidates about the vaccine-autism myth—-it’s too obvious why.
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, barack obama, Disability Rights, Education, Epidemic, hillary clinton, History, john mccain, Junk Science, Parenting, pdd-nos, Politics, president, Science, VaccinesShare […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 3 comments

February 25th, 2008

So Albert, Wolfgang, and Immanuel Had Autism: Does It Matter?

Michael Fitzgerald, a professor of psychiatry at Trinity College in Dublin, recently argued that the genes for creativity and for autism and autism spectrum disorders are “‘essentially the same,’” the February 21st Telegraph notes. Historical figures ranging from scientists Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein, from composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to writer George Orwell, from US […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 23 comments

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