[aspires...] Re: I just came back from a meeting about autism :)

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> I appreciate your suggesting that I read up on Grinker... however an

> academic citation would be even more helpful please (APA/MLA, your

> choice).

I'd provided that earlier, on this List. Perhaps before your time.

Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism.

Roy Grinker.

Basic Books (January 1, 2007).

ISBN-10: 0465027636

ISBN-13: 978-0465027637

Roy Grinker is Professor of Anthropology and the Human Sciences

at The Washington University. His young daughter is autistic.

Eminently *readable*; but scholarly too. Inter alia, even Time magazine

thought it was an Important Book and reviewed it last year.

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>>>Looks like I might have just found my voice in the greater

>>>Chattanooga (Tennessee) community. I will share a few things I

>>>learned at the local MeetUp meeting this afternoon.

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>>>3. Parents shouldn't have their children vaccinated.

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>>, that's very bad advice.

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>>> I learned that

>>>an increasing number of research studies are showing that a higher

>>>number of vaccination shots which aren't needed are leading to an

>>>increasing percentage of children who have Asperger's, ADHD, and

>>>other neurobiological disorders.

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>>What you " learned " isn't validated truth. More like anecdotal

>>accumulation posing as a " study " .

>> I've yet to hear of, let alone see, a well-designed study which

>>says anything like that.

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>>Read Grinker, inter alia.

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>>> Right now the rate is 1 in 166

>>>children and it's only going to get worse until something is done to

>>>change the gloomy forecast.

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>> " Critical thinking " will help, a whole big bunch.

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>>Read Grinker...

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>>- Bill, 75, AS; ...professional biologist (clinical emphasis)

- Bill, 75, AS

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WD " Bill " Loughman - Berkeley, California USA

http://home.earthlink.net/~wdloughman/wdl.htm

[Guest guest]

Bill, thank you for the review, as the book seems to be of great

interest to me.

> >>

> >>>Looks like I might have just found my voice in the greater

> >>>Chattanooga (Tennessee) community. I will share a few things I

> >>>learned at the local MeetUp meeting this afternoon.

> >>

> >> [ snip ]

> >>

> >>>3. Parents shouldn't have their children vaccinated.

> >>

> >>, that's very bad advice.

> >>

> >>

> >>> I learned that

> >>>an increasing number of research studies are showing that a

higher

> >>>number of vaccination shots which aren't needed are leading to

an

> >>>increasing percentage of children who have Asperger's, ADHD, and

> >>>other neurobiological disorders.

> >>

> >>What you " learned " isn't validated truth. More like anecdotal

> >>accumulation posing as a " study " .

> >> I've yet to hear of, let alone see, a well-designed study

which

> >>says anything like that.

> >>

> >>Read Grinker, inter alia.

> >>

> >>

> >>> Right now the rate is 1 in 166

> >>>children and it's only going to get worse until something is

done to

> >>>change the gloomy forecast.

> >>

> >> " Critical thinking " will help, a whole big bunch.

> >>

> >>Read Grinker...

> >>

> >>

> >>- Bill, 75, AS; ...professional biologist (clinical emphasis)

>

> - Bill, 75, AS

>

> --

> WD " Bill " Loughman - Berkeley, California USA

> http://home.earthlink.net/~wdloughman/wdl.htm

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[Guest guest]

wrote:

> Bill, thank you for the review, as the book seems to be of great

> interest to me.

De nada. Go here for a dozen and more other reviews:

http://www.unstrange.com/grinker_reviews.html

NB: In their own right, some of those reviews are as fascinating and

informative as Grinker's book.

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>>>I appreciate your suggesting that I read up on Grinker... however an

>>>academic citation would be even more helpful please (APA/MLA,

[ snip ]

>>Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism.

>>Roy Grinker.

>>Basic Books (January 1, 2007).

>> ISBN-10: 0465027636

>> ISBN-13: 978-0465027637

[ snip ]

- Bill, 75, AS; ...bookworm

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WD " Bill " Loughman - Berkeley, California USA

http://home.earthlink.net/~wdloughman/wdl.htm