Last Week’s Top Posts

We began the week with Monday in Manhattan and ended it with dinner and a walk across the Hudson River. Inbetween:

• Simon Baron-Cohen on “Disorder,” “Cure,” and Autism
  Says Baron-Cohen: “The word ‘disorder’ is too negative. I use the word “condition” – autism can be disabling, but not all of its features involve disability. Some of them are strengths.”
• Autistic Defendants Often Misunderstood In Criminal Justice System
  A 20-year-old man stabs his mother in Florida.
• And when we were wrong, we promptly admitted it
  In recognition of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month, b5media bloggers on the Health and Wellness Channel are blogging about the 12 step program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
• Deconstructing the Vaccine-Autism Scare
  Dr. Rahul Parikh reviews Autism’s False Prophets by Dr. Paul Offit.
• The Vaccine Doctor and the Autism Mom Heroine
  In this script, Jenny and her following of David(a)s are poised, too-good non-toxicness products in their hands, to take on the evil Goliath of the Medical Establishment, Big Pharma, the dreaded CDC.
• Confessions of a Former Warrior Mom
  In which I announce that I’ve retired from this Warrior mom business.
• Acceptance and Surrender, says Jenny
  Yes, these words were said by Mother Warrior Jenny McCarthy on Oprah.
• A “Master Switch” for Synapses, Npas4
  Neuroscientists at Children’s Hospital Boston have identified what is being called a “master switch” that organizes the functioning of inhibitory synapses.
• A Method to Predict the “Severity” of Autism?
  A study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry has found that determining whether a toddler focuses on another person’s mouth or eyes can predict the level of disability in the child.
• The Adolescence Factor
  About “the adolescence factor,” which seems to have become the new reigning phrase in our household to explain tense, tough moments.
• David Kirby (and the supposed vaccine-autism link) deconstructed, yet again
  Dr. Rahul K. Parikh deconstructs David Kirby’s Powerpoint to congressional staffers.