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SciWriteLabs 7.3: Long-form narratives, crappy first drafts, and the importance of wasting time

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: February 20, 2012

Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times | Tagged Amy Harmon, David Dobbs, Dean Baquet, Deborah Blum, Gay Talese, Jack Hart, Jack Robison, John Elder Robison, John McPhee, Jonah Lehrer, Kirsten Lindsmith, The New Yorker | Leave a comment

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

SciWriteLabs 7.3: Long-form narratives, crappy first drafts, and the importance of wasting time

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 1, 2012

Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times | Tagged Amherst, Anne Lamott, Anne Leigh, Barbara Graustark, Chris Jones, David Dobbs, Dean Baquet, Deborah Blum, Eve Online, Fred Conrad, Gay Talese, Glenn Kramon, Graduate Program in Science Writing, Jack Hart, Jack Robison, John Elder Robison, John McPhee, Jonah Lehrer, Josh Williams, Kanye Rogers, Kassie Bracken, Kirsten Lindsmith, Kurt Andersen, MIT, Nieman Storyboard, Philadelphia, The Huffington Post, The New Yorker, The Oregonian, The Panic Virus, The Paris Review, Wendy Mnookin | 2 Comments

Context and corrections in writing about autism and vaccines: A case study in misleading your readers

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: December 30, 2011

Category: Autism, Journalism, The New York Times, The Panic Virus, Vaccine safety, Vaccines | Tagged AAP, AMA, American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, Barack Obama, David Geier, flu vaccine, Fluttershy, Jack Robison, JAMA, John Birch Society, Kat Stoeffel, Kirsten Lindsmith, Mark Geier, Marketwatch, Mussolini, My Little Pony, New York Observer, The Tuscaloosa News, The Wall Street Journal, Twilight Sparkle, Wal-Mart | 36 Comments

John Elder Robison: “Why The Times remains the paper of record”

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: December 29, 2011

Category: Autism, Journalism, Media, The New York Times | Tagged Amy Harmon, Jack Robison, John Elder Robison, Kirsten Lindsmith, Look Me In the Eye | 1 Comment

The New York Times’s incredible piece on the lives and loves of two adults with Aspergers

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: December 28, 2011

Category: Autism, Media, The New York Times | Tagged Amy Harmon, Andre Dubus, Breaking Bad, cats, cauliflower, David Dobbs, Jack Robison, Kirsten Lindsmith, My Little Pony, Raymond Carver, Reddit, The Open Notebook | 11 Comments