A Step Down the Slippery Slope Toward Using Eugenics to Eliminate People With...
Yes, early identification is crucial in helping people with autism reach their full potential.No, this tool is not yet being used on pregnant women-- just on babies whose doctors see signs of...
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From the Blogosphere: Emotional Blindness, Eugenics, Wiring, T-Shirts, and...
John Elder Robison explores emotional blindness:I project my own hopes or desires, even when they are totally at odds with what the other person is really thinking. I want something, I look at another...
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Get Real: Autism Speaks is Mostly About Eugenics
Autism Speaks (and its less obnoxious sister the Autism Science Foundation) are mostly about eugenics.That's what genetic research focused specifically on autism is about: the development of prenatal...
View ArticleAutism Speaks Reveals Top Ten Autism Research Achievements of 2011, Skewed...
Autism Speaks reveals its Top Ten Autism Research Achievements of 2011. Looking at them will tell you a lot about the priorities of the organization and in autism research in general.Much of what is...
View ArticleWhat Prenatal Testing for Autism Might Look and Feel Like
One of the most troubling issues related to autism research is the likelihood that some of it will be used to create prenatal tests that may result in fetuses being aborted if they show a likelihood of...
View ArticlePrenatal Screening for Autism is Being Studied Now
Last week I wrote about my fears regarding prenatal screening for autism and was assured that no such thing is even close to happening.But the New York Times reported yesterday that microarray testing,...
View ArticleEugenics, the Disabled, the Nazis, and Today
Nicky Clark was shocked that programs designed to kill disabled people were not part of a recent BBC documentary that discussed the Nazi eugenics regime, so she wrote this article detailing a painful,...
View ArticleThe Moral Crisis We Are All Ignoring: Research on Prenatal Tests for Autism...
Researchers in Australia are currently trying to develop a prenatal screening test for autism. People keep trying to tell me this is not happening.It is.They are studying the fetal development of the...
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