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

In 2015 Autistica  invited me to write a short blog post on lessons from history for autism research. Then they took down their entire blog...

In the Carter decision , the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the existing prohibition against physician-assisted dying, and gave the Ca...

Before I forget how to blog again, some excerpts from a live Q & A I did in the UK recently, while at the Centre for Research in Autism...

In a commentary epublished in March , about savant syndrome in autism, Patricia Howlin wrote: In 1887 Langdon Down was the first to coin the...

In one short paper , Elizabeth Pellicano and colleagues claim to demolish Simon Baron Cohen's systemizing account of autism . They also ...

Strange way to start the year. And maybe this recent search from the University of Southampton is actually unrelated to the university. On ...

Associations between autism and notorious violent crimes are easy to find--they seem almost automatic. Here is one example , and another , a...

If you are autistic and ever venture or are pushed into public, a near-certainty is that you will publicly be ranked and classified by tota...

Some months ago, Jonathan Green and his colleagues simultaneously published ( in the Lancet ) and presented ( at IMFAR 2010 ) their multi-si...

I had no idea my sleep-wake cycle was pathological until I saw a presentation a few years ago by the geneticist Thomas Bourgeron. One of his...

The widespread message arising from Andari et al. (in press) is that the hormone oxytocin " may be a powerful weapon in fighting autis...

We have to wait, patiently, for the DSM-V people to cough up their system for ranking and classifying all autistics according autism "...