Medical Science
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An Open Letter About Yet Another Egregiously Bad Autism Study
My friend Andrew Hutsell, whom many of you may remember from their fantastic takedown of Hu et al’s atrocious paper on moral consistency in autistic folks, is taking on another terrible study. This…
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Moral Consistency Is Not An Autistic Deficit : A Letter to Hu et al
Some researchers need to be reading books by neurologist Oliver Sacks. One of the greatest joys in reading about the neurological disorders he treated, including autism, was his delight in all the myriad…
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A is For Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie is Deadly Good Fun
I’ve been a Dame Agatha Christie fan for very many decades now. She wasn’t my fave when I was young – I was a misogynistic jackass and thought she was a pale imitation…
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Quackery: A Book That Will Leave You Writhing
I bought Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything on a whim. It was on sale, and I loves me some sneering at snake oil. I figured it would…