Wednesday Web Watch for January 14, 2015

Uh oh.  Another runaway train: “half of all children will be autistic by 2025.”  Not quite.  As noted by Neurobonkers @ Big Think, “the increasing prevalence of autism is largely due to increasing rates of diagnosis and – as a new study has recently demonstrated, changes in how autism is diagnosed.”   A sigh of relief: […]

Wednesday Web Watch for November 19, 2014

On November 12, 2014 in the words of Big Think‘s  David Ropeik, “the EU government quietly scrapped the position of Chief Science Advisor (CSA), a resounding science embarrassment, and a precedent that should scare people everywhere.”  In her role as CSA, Anne Glover was tasked with educating policymakers on matters involving scientific expertise, including the […]