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Autism Humor Medicine

The Onion on the “rainman” autism study linking rainfall levels to autism

I wrote about this study the other day, but clearly I didn’t have the final word. As usual, The Onion nails it.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Say it ain’t so, Barack! Say you ain’t seriously considering Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to run the EPA!

One of the aspects of the Barack Obama candidacy that raised my hopes and those of so many of my fellow ScienceBloggers, as well as scientists tired of the crass politicization of science under the Bush administration, was the prospect of an Administration in which science and reason were valued and in which cranks were […]

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Autism Medicine

Piling on the “rain man” autism study…

…is Joseph at Autism Natural Variation. It turns out that he can’t find the correlation between precipitation levels and autism diagnoses that Waldman et al study; he too points out that urbanicity was not controlled for; and he even thinks a bit of cherry picking may have occurred. Meanwhile, Steve Novella is a bit less […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Rain man? Or: Does rainfall cause autism?

I guess Barack Obama’s mad hypnotic powers worked. One non-political thing that this election has reminded me of is that when you’ve been blogging as long as I have (nearly four years now–almost as long as a Presidential term!–assuming you’re good and have found a niche in the blogosphere, you can become one of the […]

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Politics

I hadn’t planned on live-blogging the election returns…

…after all, I’m not a political blogger, except occasionally and maybe once every four years. If I’m still blogging four years from now, we’ll see if I feel like morphing into a political blogger again, just for one day. However, I found this nifty little widget that does the job for me: There, you can […]