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RFK Jr. Joins the War on Climate Scientists

Legal Planet

He leads the Informed Consent Action Network, or ICAN, a well-funded advocacy group that spreads vaccine misinformation, including baseless claims that childhood vaccines cause autism. Respect for science matters and this staffing choice shows definitively which side RFK Jr. He’s dabbled in election denial. near the Capitol on Jan.

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Frontiers in Psychology: Neuropsychology Section Editor’s Choice articles

Frontiers

It provides a unique perspective on the difficulty of starting, stopping, and changing tasks in real life through qualitative data, collected from adults with autism in focus groups. This study explores ‘autistic inertia’, a widespread and often debilitating difficulty in acting on intentions.

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‘Try to reverse these wrong stereotypes’ – an interview with Prof Sarah Garfinkel & Dr Lisa Quadt #WomeninScience

Frontiers

LQ: I think this has been a collective trauma for the autism community. Autistic autism researchers like Dr Gemma Williams have just been amazing in educating us. LQ: For me, definitely finishing this big clinical trial. I think it is our duty as scientists to try to reverse these wrong stereotypes.

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A physicist’s experience of the mental-health system

Physics World

So, tell me about your childhood,” they’d invariably begin, ignoring what I saw as a crucial and definitive piece of information (my severe reaction to Sertraline) before wandering along a path of relative obscurity. Possible features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Recurrent depressive illness. Severe depressive illness.

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Michael Shellenberger talks with Nick O’Malley, National Editor of Climate and the Environment, Sydney Morning Herald

Environmental Progress

It's very, very clear about this in the IPCC and their definitions. Though you didn't say that in the piece, in the piece you just said, it's not making disasters worse, but you're going by the IPCC definition. IPCC’s Definition of Disaster. To rely on the IPCC definition is intellectually dishonest, why? Nick: So good.