Autist's Corner

There's a book I have, From Poor Law to Welfare State , that's a history of welfare programs in the US, from the colonial period to...

Miri at Brute Reason has a very thought-provoking post up about social stigma, and whether anyone deserves to be stigmatized. She doesn...

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

(Photo by Allison Long, for the Kansas City Star) A recent article in the Kansas City Star covered a group with a different sort of anti-b...

Some book I read a long time ago --- it may have been Steven Pinker 's The Blank Slate --- maintained that, in the US, conventional wis...

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

Yesterday I ran across two seemingly contradictory factoids about public opinion on the autism-vaccine issue: this column in this month'...