About autism, that is, this blog having the “a-word” in its title. Frequently discussion here veers off into this topic. The power of association being what it is, the more “the v-word” is mentioned, the more the belief/feeling/notion that there’s a link between said word and autism gets etched into the public’s mind. This association occurs (and is strengthened by source amnesia) no matter how much scientific evidence (and there has been more recently, concurrent with more evidence that autism is genetic) arises that disputes a link.
The good thing about the very large amount of attention attributed to this …read more