The publishers of Nature are promoting a new site, Scitable. The publishers bill Scitable as “a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world’s leading publisher of science. Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms.” Autism is one of the topics featured at Scitable, so I’ll be reviewing what’s there and monitoring for updates about the scientific study of Autism at it’s “Spotlight on Autism.”
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The scitable page on autism needs considerable rewrite. Someone needs to check the links and make sure that Nature is linking to sites that give science based information. Thoughtful House, the clinic founded by discredited researcher Andrew Wakefield, is not what I would consider a good resource for people looking for accurate information about autism.
John, the “vaccines and autism” link at Scitable opens a 2008 PDF Harvard Science Review article from one Amy Xin Guan, at that time a freshman at Harvard…hardly the most impressive source.
John, the skeptic and science-based group blog in the UK, HolfordWatch* has published a critique of Sciatable on Autism, Nature Publishing promote bad autism science.
FYI, HolfordWatch has also published great work on the woo that is the Dore treatment.
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*Patrick Holford is a UK…promoter of “you can eat your way to health” or nutritionism.
As noted at Holford Watch and in the comments at LeftBrainRightBrain, the mention of “nutritional treatments for autism” and the associated links to Thoughtful House are gone.
What is there:
The “Facts about autism” link now goes to National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
The “How is Autism Diagnosed” link now goes to the CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities page on autism.
The “What are Autism Spectrum Disorders” link now goes to the National Insittiute of Mental Health’s page on autism
Well, it appears that, after a goofy start, Scitable is going in a better direction. I wonder if some scientifically inclined editor had to show an intern how to discriminate among pure woo, pseudoscience, and more trustworthy content and then apply this rule: Post links only to the later.
Thanks, Matt and Liz!