Yesterday I asked on the ScienceBlogs Book Club about how we can frame vaccines to combat what seems to be widespread public ignorance, or at least uncertainty, about what causes autism and what autism is.
So how about this for a message for what autism is?

Yes, that’s my son Charlie off on a bike ride. Jim was standing behind me as I took the photo: Jim’s quite able to pedal really fast and catch up to Charlie (who’s able to pedal really really fast himself). We’re not trying to push our luck with Charlie riding his bike in the street …read more