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In fairness, this isn’t a criticism of this study in particular. It’s a challenge for any researcher attempting to study autism via mouse behaviour. But it’s important to remember that when we say “autism-like behaviour”, what this really means is “behaviour in mice that can be described using the same words that we use to describe autism”.
Can Gut Bacteria Cause Autism (In Mice)?
Jon Brock
On the pretext, or possibly the genuine misapprehension on the part of many soldiers, that they were being fired on by Belgian civilians, the hunt began for these presumed ‘francs-tireurs’, a term that recalled the French civilian volunteers in the war of 1870—1. This was a search for a chimera, for in reality no civilians had fired, the population having been disarmed, and in any case in a town teeming with enemy troops it would have been madness to start an insurrection. The inhabitants were dragged out of their homes, and the houses were set on fire.
1. The Burning of Louvain
Alan Kramer
(World Fantasy tickets are not refundable, and several recent WFCs have had harassment and accessibility polices that could most charitably be called ‘inadequate’).
The Geek’s Guide to Disability | the Bias
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