Showing posts with label epidemiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label epidemiology. Show all posts
Friday, January 4, 2013

One More Air-Pollution Study

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In the last post I confused this study  ( PDF ) with an earlier one by the same group of researchers ; I wrote about the earlier one, but l...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Bizarre Things Purported to Cause Autism: Early Exposure to Air Pollution

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A quick note: my (very) occasional "Bizarre Things..." series was never intended solely as a crank roundup. No, in my mind I reso...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Two Quick Links about Why the Fight over Evolution Matters

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So, apparently Kevin Drum, a political commentator I don't read but who is apparently somewhat well-known, has written an article for Mo...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Autism Diagnoses Spread through Social Networks

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A little more than a year ago, a group of sociologists analyzed data from the state of California --- birth records and ...
Friday, May 27, 2011

1 in 38?

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That's the proportion of school-aged kids found to meet diagnostic criteria for an ASD by this team of mostly Korean researchers --- Drs...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

Too Many, Too Soon?

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: One of the misgivings about current early-childhood vaccination recommendations is that they involve exposing infants to...
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

PLoS ONE: Children from Wealthier Families More Likely to Meet Criteria for an ASD

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY : A recent study shows that wealthier families are somewhat likelier than middle- and low-income families to have autistic...
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