Jessica Severson

Autism Misinformation: Putting My Foot Down (Part 2)

May 14, 2012 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Jessica Severson theseversons.net Part one surveys the first part of the sequence of events by which research turns into pseudoscience, and “truth fades away in favor of headlines and pageviews and gossip.” Onward. Part Five: News Articles This is a process. First research, then op-ed, then press release and finally news articles. So what’s the […]

Autism Misinformation: Putting My Foot Down (Part 1)

May 11, 2012 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Jessica Severson theseversons.net I am putting my foot down. As the parent of an autistic child I hear a lot about vaccines and about half a million other things that people think cause autism. I’m hyperaware of the attention autism gets in the media. So I know about the CDC’s new stats on autism rates.