Media Watch I'm autistic, psychologists say,So I can't be a poet today?I've taken the timeTo compose a rhymeSo, what do you think, RFK? I shouldn't have to write this. The myth that there is a link between vaccines and autism has been thoroughly debunked. There is no connection between vaccination and autism. None at all. …
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Why is there so much bad news? The reason is that bad news happens fast. Good things tend to be slow. Why is there no smallpox in the news? Because it has been eradicated, the last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in 1977, even then the WHO did not declare it extinct until 1980. Apart …
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"Why do they teach algebra when I will never use it?" This question has turned up on social media recently. Once one person has posted it another posts the same thing. None of them has stopped to think, "Why have I no use for algebra?" Picture from Wikipedia commons The reason that algebra is taught …
Yes, you read that right. That is what research from psychologists says. This one: Right temporoparietal junction underlies avoidance of moral transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder They say that that autistic people are less likely to act immorally, even when consequences or chance of being found out are low, is apparently a 'deficit'. Yes really. …
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1 Show me the numbers I am trying to get to the bottom of this controversy. You claim that the science shows that ABA works? Please show the evidence. Comments on this blog will be accepted, though abuse will be redacted. But I need decent science, which means a decent sample in the research. Autism …
People are still scared, some are frustrated. How long are these restrictions to our freedom going to go on. I am not being pessimistic here, but there are people with unrealistic expectations, talking about us coming out of the Covid-19 crisis as if it is already happening, we are in the first stage of controlling …
Global warming is a thing, but the Earth has been a lot warmer in the past. It is thought by some geologists that we are in an interglacial period of an ice age, so it is possible that it will be a lot cooler in the future too when the ice returns, putting us into …
"Like a mighty wind" Sunday 9th September 2020 Storm Ciara. It sounds so friendly giving comfortable names to bad weather. It does not work, it is not friendly. After having been awake during the night due to a combination of arthritic pain and the sound, I awoke a second time at 8am to the radio …
What happened before the Big bang? Is that even a question? As space-time came into existence at the big bang, time did not exist for there to be a 'before.' That the universe came out of nothing has been part of Christian theology for much longer than it has been science's main contender of how …
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