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Autism is a big swamp

There are enough people taking advantage of autism.
First of all there is a definitional problem and the inclination that parents have to hope for autism as an alternative to the very negative diagnosis–mental retardation.
And it goes downhill from there. Hate to bust anybody’s balloon, but autism used to be called mental retardation and the number of MR diagnoses has declined with the increase in the number of autistic diagnoses.
Nothing that I can do to change the reality.
http://acsh.org/2014/04/lowest-low-quack-treatments-autism/

Dalrymple on Obesity–marvelous

Last week I told you about a British Medical Journal article on the benefits of barriatric surgery over behavior mod, the current operations of preference are Roux en Y with gastric reduction (one helluva surgery), sleeves (simpler) and such.
Continue reading Dalrymple on Obesity–marvelous