[Abanijo]

http://www.emilywillinghamphd.com/20...n-and-new.html

A new book; critiqued on this science blog.

" Autism, immunity, inflammation, and the New York Times
The Preamble
On Saturday, the New York Times online ran a piece from its Sunday Review Opinion pages entitled, “An immune disorder at the root of autism.” The piece is packed with overstatements and overinterpretations and lacks much-needed modulation and qualification. More than that, it promises a "preventative" for autism that is, pardon me, off the hook(worm).

The author is Moises Velasquez-Manoff, who has a book coming up, An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases. Although I understand that someone who has written a book may well have expertise in a specific subject area, a fund of knowledge does not give them carte blanche to bring their bias without scientific counterpoint to the editorial pages of the New York Times. Velasquez-Manoff's book hits the stands on September 4.

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Lest you think I overstate, Velasquez-Manoff’s piece has already made it onto the “mercury in vaccines causes autism” discussion boards, and someone tweetspammed me last night (with three tweets) about vaccines and autism in response to my tweet about this article. I’m sure the party has just begun. Accurate science, however, likely won't be one of the attendees.
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