the autism crisis: science & ethics in the era of autism advocacy

The following is what I will probably send to Globe and Mail reporter Erin Anderssen, if I can get my email to work (yes, you can blame my c...

The ABA non-randomized controlled trial presented by Patricia Howlin at the International Meeting for Autism Research this year has recent...

So are autistics really going to take over the known world? We know there's been a staggering surge in irresponsible autism-related jour...

Dawson, M., Mottron, L., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (in press). Learning in autism. In J. H. Byrne (Series Ed.) & H. Roediger (Vol. Ed.), ...

John Staddon, PhD (James B Duke Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at Duke University),...

Back from the far-away land of deadlines with some very-belated information from IMFAR (International Meeting for Autism Research) 2007, and...

For those interested, my first-author poster at this year's IMFAR (International Meeting for Autism Research) has been posted on the No ...

The major media have been buzzing with stories about the crushing burden autistics place on non-autistics . This reporting stems in part fro...

Unfortunately, I don't have time or room to post all their photographs. So this isn't a proper rogues gallery--more like a rogues li...

I'm grateful to Harold Doherty for providing me with a distraction from being pulverized at the Tribunal. Mr Doherty is doing science ag...

Matthew Belmonte spent four years working with Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and is now at Cornell. This passage, reflecting on prioritie...

The 2007 International Meeting for Autism Research (Seattle this year) schedule for oral and poster presentations has been posted here . I...

My Canadian Human Rights Tribunal case resumes hearings tomorrow. We previously (in 2006) had eight hearing days. Ten more are now scheduled...

This is a description of one of Leo Kanner's autistic "patients", from a follow-up study Kanner published in 1956 with his col...

Autism advocates trivialize autism . They do not take autism seriously. For example, compare autism advocacy to advocacy in other disability...

In the House of Commons late last year, Liberal MP Blair Wilson made this statement re autistic children and "medically necessary"...