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fred_mouse) wrote2016-09-16 07:42 pm
fred_mouse) wrote2016-09-16 07:42 pm
links - assorted
On the Australian Marriage equality plebiscite - Liberal senator Dean Smith announces he will not vote for it. And not because he is gay, but because he thinks it undermines democracy-as-we-know-it.
For your tool-box: how to get youtube captions to make a transcript - note that I haven't tried this, and it is some years old. Therefore, may not be in any way relevant/function with the current youtube.
"A surprising effect of sugar on the immune system" - a pop-culture level summary of some recent research on the effect of glucose on bacterial and viral infections [in mice].
There is no autism epidemic - reflecting something I've been saying for years, which is that you can't look at the trends in a single condition, without looking at trends in conditions which might be historically equivalent diagnoses [rant on DSM versions redacted]
Nisi Shawl on 'Appropriate cultural appropriation'
Sara X Mills on why they chose to have their breast implants removed.
..and now I'm out of oomph. I have cut down the number of open tabs by a few, and windows by at least one. *flop*
For your tool-box: how to get youtube captions to make a transcript - note that I haven't tried this, and it is some years old. Therefore, may not be in any way relevant/function with the current youtube.
"A surprising effect of sugar on the immune system" - a pop-culture level summary of some recent research on the effect of glucose on bacterial and viral infections [in mice].
There is no autism epidemic - reflecting something I've been saying for years, which is that you can't look at the trends in a single condition, without looking at trends in conditions which might be historically equivalent diagnoses [rant on DSM versions redacted]
Nisi Shawl on 'Appropriate cultural appropriation'
Sara X Mills on why they chose to have their breast implants removed.
..and now I'm out of oomph. I have cut down the number of open tabs by a few, and windows by at least one. *flop*
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1) REPORTING is way up (this is also why -- in this country at least -- people think crimes against children are on the increase; in fact I believe they are lower now than any time in the 20th/21st century (but I don't have a cite for that... they've dropped drastically as I understand).
2) Understanding what all "autism" is has increased, not just among the medical professionals but everyone else, too.
3) Technology has led to differences in how children (and others) process information, interact with the world, etc. I suspect the definition of "neurotypical" is no longer the same as it used to be... or if not, it will be changing at some point... because childhood development is changing.
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The thing that I see in the media (not just with respect to autism) that really bugs me, is the lazy logic that says 'diagnosis rates are up means that the incidence is up', because that misses so much of how science and medicine works.
As to your point one - I saw roughly the same comment with regards to the chest beating that keeps happening at the moment regarding deaths of celebrities, in that we are more likely to have heard of more people, and more likely to hear about their deaths -- that this isn't necessarily 'The Most Tragic Year', or whatever hyperbole is coming out this week.
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