Fantastic aerial footage of the one million people asking the government to have a people’s vote. How wonderful would it be if Theresa May had the courage to acknowledge Brexit is stuck, and to ask the people what they want? To show she can listen. She would win so much respect

Do you teach stats? An intro course without t-tests, F-tests, or p-values. Here is the blog post. @JeffRouder How novel 😀 What did the students make of it? jeffrouder.blogspot.com/2019/03/teachi…

Over 450 studies reported on the candidate gene for depression SLC6A4, costing >$100 million over 20 years. But these studies were just on hundreds of people and the new genome wide studies of >10K people show this and other candidate genes don’t replicate theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Big Tech has exactly one job to do in a pandemic qz.com/1825450/ via Quartz

Why did Trump irresponsibly suggest drinking bleach could cure covid-19? Because Mark Grenon, head of Genesis II, that sells disinfectant chlorine dioxide, wrote to him saying this “miracle mineral solution” cures cancer & autism. In fact, it can be fatal theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…

Ok Business Insider you got me. This is actually incredible. youtu.be/FG_l1oacWoQ

To the family of Iyad Halak: my deepest sympathy to you. Iyad was the opposite of a terrorist. He was a harmless unarmed innocent autistic young man, shot & killed by Israeli police in Jerusalem. This is unacceptable. Israel needs to apologise, reflect, & ensure justice is done

Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.

"The Tyranny of Spreadsheets" - my #longread on Excel, Enron, covid, 14th century double-entry bookkeeping and the eradication of smallpox. I had fun. There's a real "we hate spreadsheets" vibe coming from the design team at FT Weekend Magazine though... Enjoy! ft.com/content/18db20…

I think I've waited 50 years to see this.

Let’s Be Clear That “Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms” Are Not Always Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder By Catherine Lord & Somer L. Bishop. bit.ly/2WtpT26 It's high time to discuss this. But paywall.

We need a discussion about the many different autisms that are now seemingly lumped together. For background here's a review paper with Prof Francesca Happé bit.ly/3zOxmXD

Here is a glimpse of Mike Rutter's spectacular work and towering achievements in child psychology and psychiatry. A giant of the field without equals. bit.ly/3jQRHX1

Flights of Fancy is now out (UK). Published. Available. In bookshops now.

The evidence is in: there is no language instinct aeon.co/magazine/cultu… via Aeon Magazine

Moving piece on life with hyperacusis, When Everyday Life is Unbearable. @Joycecohen @NYTimes ht.ly/Gs4IU

Very welcome news: Microsoft is hiring people with autism tiny.cc/g7vowx, following the example of SAP tiny.cc/69vowx

UK citizen? Sign this petition asking the Govt to repeat the EU referendum seeking a 60% majority to remain or leave tiny.cc/qjphcy

Is the bulk of fMRI data questionable? retractionwatch.com/2016/07/12/is-…

"This bricolage of essays by polymath physician and author Sacks forms a brilliant whole.... interconnected ideas and insights flow together like braided streams, forming a final retrospective of one of our age's greatest scientific storytellers." Scientific American, Nov 2017