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Category Archives: Science
Autism Awareness is Not Enough: Here’s How to Change the World
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Culture, Education, Ethics, Health, Media, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Politics, Science, Technology
Tagged Autism Acceptance Day, World Autism Awareness Day
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Breaking the Habits that Enslave Us: Q&A with Charles Duhigg
Category: Books, Culture, History, Interview, Journalism, Marriage Equality, Media, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Placebo effect, Race, Science, Writers
Tagged AA, Charles Duhigg, incentive salience, Kent Berridge, Reza Habib, Rosa Parks, The Power of Habit
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Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete
Category: Art, Books, Culture, Drugs, Interview, Multimedia, Music, Neuroscience, Personal computing, Photography, Science, Technology
Tagged Ellington, Hockney, Messaien, Nabokov, Perry Hall, Ramachandran, Ravel, Scriabin, Synesthesia
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Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world
Category: Autism, Media, Science
Tagged Amy Harmon, Apple, applied behavioral analysis, Ari Ne'eman, Asperger syndrome, autism cults, Autism Diva, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Defeat Autism Now!, DSM, Grateful Dead, ipad, Jenny McCarthy, John Elder Robison, Kristina Chew, Left Brain/Right Brain, Loving Lampposts, Lydia Brown, Neurotribes, Paul Collins, Ralph James Savarese, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Steve Silberman, Temple Grandin, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Panic Virus, The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Todd Drezner, Tom Lehrer, vaccines
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Has the Huffington Post embraced science & closed the door on anti-vaccine quackery?
Category: Autism, Media, Science
Tagged David Kirby, Huffington Post, Jay Gordon, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, Kim Stagliano, Orac, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scientific american
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Book of the Year: Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Culture, Health, History, Neurodiversity, Science, Science Writing
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SciWriteLabs #6: BMJ editor Fiona Godlee on the Wakefield-MMR fiasco, the problems with peer review, and research oversight boards
Category: Media, Science, SciWriteLabs, Vaccine safety
Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Ben Goldacre, Brian Deer, British Medical Journal, Daily Mail, David Lewis, Ingvar Bjarnason, measles, Melanie Phillips, MMR, Molecular Pathology, nature, Pace University, paul offit, Peer review, Private Eye, research oversight boards, Richard Horton, Royal Free Hospital, The Lancet, The Panic Virus, University College London
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