He is truly ignorant, and I bet he parks in the blue spaces so the “falers” cannot use them.

WWE holds 3-4 arena shows a week all over the country as well as 5 hours of TV programming each week in which they are currently promoting generation rescue and McCarthy, this is a way for her to reach a huge audience and spread this misinformation.

There are comments from me in response, some of which are good — there’s also some real nutball comments from others.

Here’s the article:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/rise_in_number_of_children_dia.html

This seems like we’re just drumming the same beat i don’t know how many times i hear

“that there is no real autism epidemic. This is probably true, the evidence strongly suggests that the increase in autism diagnosis is due to expanding the diagnosis and increased surveillance efforts – not a true epidemic. But this does not mean that autism is not real.”

this seems to me like as Dr.Novella you said on the podcast last week with science based med, this argument needs to also re-group and take a new approach.

Who says he isn’t qualified? Huge ROFLs @ teh conservative talk radio listeners.
If half of the books are cited correctly, it is hugely funny and sad at the same time.

What that absurd joke means to an adult Aspie is: “It’s not the Aspie child who creates problems but the absurd environment.” It is an mirror-image upside-down joke.

Aspies do recognize Aspie humor faster than lightning! Very few Aspies would ever get upset by this kind of absurd humor.
How can non-physical absurdities hurt? Either you get it or you don’t get it. Take a deep breath. Imagine Savage is really an Aspie himself, and reread the page. The “Know what I mean Notch Notch” scetch by Monty Python examplifies another mirror image joke about joking.

This is simply how many adult Aspies think laugh and barely survive in the US… If they succeed they get ignored by the NeuroTypics and applauded by other Aspies. The doctor who diagnosed my as an Aspie wrote: “Niels has a very well developed and deep sense of humor.” “Well, as one Aspie joked to another: I always look smarter when I see my self in a mirror”. Neuraltypics would typically substitute “smarter” with “prettier” or “more handsome”. Smart has a double meaning and is therefore considered more deep by Aspies.
The real smart Aspies move to places like Silicon Valley, where blogs like this are quite different in scope and tone.

I should apologize not as an Aspie to a NeuroTypic community but as a human being who is part of a human community. Is it not about time that we humans take ourselves seriously? Why is it that Aspies in the US seem only to be mostly problem, while in Denmark Aspies are treated as specialists? Please use our brains fellow humans! And then we could enjoy a good laugh together!

I would never dream of advocating a scientific conclusion. I don’t tell people what to do or think. I simply show my data, my analysis, my results, and my cross-validation. Anything beyond that I call politics and woo.

If you don’t follow my reasoning, it is also fine with me, I’ll just disappear like a Cheshire cat. To me it seems that the US is still suffering from a rather mixed past. Many humans around the world simply don’t understand your attitude to your original declaration of independence from 1776: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” To an Aspie that is an ultimate load of political woo completely void of any ethical consideration. The declaration was made as an effective political statement during a time of war. It worked fine at the time dealing with weak brits, but don’t teach this woo to autistic children. They will see a bad pattern immediately. In Denmark we laugh at our own outdated constitution, but realize that it doesn’t really matter what it says, as it only reflects our past, and not the present or future.

If you don’t start pulling your self up from the woo, I might use this excersize to consider US a greater threat than I thought to the future of humanity due to its large military power, nuclear arsenal and obvious problems with lacking communication and self-validation. Don’t worry, I don’t use any old fashioned push technologies, only pull technologies.