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Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 25, 2012

Category: Autism, Media, Public health, 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 | 25 Comments

SciWriteLabs 7.2: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on what it means to be a science writer

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 11, 2012

Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times, The Panic Virus | Tagged academic journals, Amy Harmon, Amy Wallace, Asperger syndrome, Boston, Catherine Lord, CDC, DNA, Eric Courchesne, Eric Fombonne, footnotes, Fred Volkmar, Gardner Museum, Gerald Fishbach, Jack Robison, Kevin Pelphrey, Kirsten Lindsmith, Los Angeles Times, Marianne English, McGill University, Michael Specter, MIT, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, NIMH, Simons Foundation, technology, The New Yorker, UC-San Diego Autism Center of Excellence, vaccines, Vanity Fair, Wired, Yale School of Medicine, Yale's Neuroscience Laboratory | 4 Comments

SciWriteLabs 7.1: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on neurodiversity and writing about autism

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 6, 2012

Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times, The Panic Virus | Tagged Amy Harmon, Asperger syndrome, David Wolman, Jack Robison, John Elder Robison, Kirsten Lindsmith, Look Me In the Eye, neurodiversity, neurology, Steve Silberman, Twitter, Wired | 5 Comments