Science & Society

Having examined PBS's Autism Now in an earlier posting and noting its overall negativity, I'd like to turn to a documentary on autism that I can recommend: Todd Drezner's Loving Lampposts. Released…

The PBS series on autism, Autism Now, has aired all of its segments now. The extended transcripts of interviews are available online, as well.The series started with the sour note of a family…

Based on last week's indictment of vaccine-autism researcher Dr. Poul Thorsen for money laundering and mail fraud, the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD), a Maryland-based non-profit…

Whether your reading posts at science20, watching talks at TED, reading any of the self help books on the bestseller lists, watching Oprah, talking with your neighbors, or just turning on the news,…

When European politicians picked a target date for greenhouse gas emissions in the Kyoto accord, American environmentalists applauded despite the motivation - economic harm for the US with little to…

In a recent email, my mother commented how I should help dissuade my younger sister from debating religious ethics on Facebook with our cousin.  I didn't seek out the conversation, but we can…

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known.  It is, without a doubt, a truism, that we see the world through…

Written with Kathleen Leopold and originally posted at Autism Blogs Directory (and edited for a wider audience)Kim:  This video of an assistant principal explaining and demonstrating a full body…

Today, 12 April 2011, is “Equal-Pay Day” in the U.S. If you took the median-salary American man and the median-salary woman, and started paying them both on the first of 2010, today is the day when…

On March 14, I became aware of the CDC’s consideration of adding a wandering code to the ICD-9-CM in relation to autism and other developmental disabilities. ASAN, an organization created and headed…