Showing posts with label autism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autism. Show all posts

Ronald Bailey: The Top 5 Bogus Health Scares

How activist misinformation harms Americans.       Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up a variety of menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. Their scares ranging from the decades-long campaign against fluoridation to worries that saccharin       ... MORE

What If Nothing Or Nobody Is To Blame For Adam Lanza?

by Ron Fournier.  What if there is nobody or nothing to blame for Adam Lanza's heinous acts? Other than Lanza, of course. What if school security and the school psychiatrist kept an eye on Lanza since his freshman year? The Wall Street Journal has a compelling narrative about the red flags addressed. What if he had a form of autism that has little or no    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Playing With Words


Misleading political redefinitions. Would anyone work to support themselves or their families — and then turn over a chunk of that hard-earned money to somebody else, just because of the words used by that somebody else? A few people may be taken in by the words of con men, here and there, but the larger tragedy is that millions more are taken in  ... MORE