Amid a surge in autism diagnoses, Arthur Mann found a friend's children detached and glued to their screens. Is it not more likely, he wonders, that we are suffering from an epidemic of disastrous middle-class parenting?
Is Keir Starmer autistic? His public persona (or lack of), absence of interpersonal skills and obsessively technocratic outlook might lead us to conclude so. But that would be unfair on autistic people, says Steven Tucker.
Science is showing that free speech is built into the brain, says Dr. Christopher Badcock. The latest insights from neuroscience suggest that the censorious are regressing to infantile cognition where no nuance is allowed.
Up to 2% of the population of England is autistic, according to the Nuffield Trust, while ADHD prescribing is up 50% in five years. What we have here is a serious case of overdiagnosis, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Will people waving their arms around and making strange noises in public really help dismantle anti-autistic prejudice, or just make them look like they are mocking the disabled, asks Steven Tucker.
Giving pregnant rats the Pfizer Covid vaccine induced ‘autism-like’ traits in the male pups born after such vaccination, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in Neurochemical Research.
We're publishing an original essay on the Daily Sceptic by philosopher Dr. Sinéad Murphy arguing that Covid restrictions have had a profoundly disorientating effect on both the young and the old.
We're publishing a guest post by Daily Sceptic regular Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an an academic philosopher. She returns to the subject of Joseph, her autistic son, who's missed almost a year-and-a-half of schooling.
