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Jul 31, 2023 · No actual evidence of alien contact has been produced; it’s just been professed to exist. Applying logic and critical thinking to the situation produces a much more somber conclusion. It’s ...
Jul 21, 2023 · SciCheck Digest. Studies have found the rate of autism is the same in vaccinated and unvaccinated children. But the false claim that vaccines are associated with the disorder persists.
Jan 27, 2017 · Studies suggest that neuropsychological theories, particularly sleep paralysis and temporal lobe sensitivity, also could explain claims of alien abduction. Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being ...
Oct 6, 2015 · The history of autism is, in part, a history of myths: of myths enshrined as facts by medical experts, of myths shaping societal attitudes towards a highly complex condition, and eventually, of...
- Debunking Another Fad Treatment – Facilitated Communication
- Why Is There So Much Misinformation About Autism?
- With Autism, We Sometimes See What We Want to See
Despite the prevalence of these fad therapies, relatively few scientists who study autism have raised their voices to rebuke these methods. Perhaps that is because most do not regard public outreach as part of their job description. In a recent article in the journal Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, my co-authors Julia Mars...
Why is autism such a magnet for fads? And why have discredited ideas endured in the face of contrary evidence? Several likely culprits conspire to create a “perfect storm” making those desperate for a cure or an effective treatment receptive to misinformation. In the case of the autism-vaccine link, the soaring increase in autism diagnoses over the...
Appearance shapes how we view autism. Children with autism do not have the distinctive facial markers of, say, children with Down Syndrome or fetal alcohol syndrome. That fact might lead some to assume that individuals with autism are cognitively and emotionally normal individuals trapped inside a malfunctioning body. If that is so, all that is pre...
Jun 27, 2021 · So call me a skeptic. Whether “flying objects” or “aerial phenomena,” unidentified still means unidentified. And there’s no evidence to conclude that UAP is best explained by space aliens.
A persistent trope in some autism communities is that autistic people are aliens, or, symmetrically, that non-autistic people seem like aliens to autists. Some autists are attracted to the metaphor of the alien to describe their own condition, or to say that they find other people alien. Conversely, people who are not autistic may in ...
