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...many parents reconsidering vaccinating their children? The answer has to do with our era's strained relationship with scientific truth, our tendency to place more faith in psychological truths than scientific ones. McCarthy's emergence - the Playmate turned pseudoscientist, the fart-joke teller cum mother warrior - can make one feel nostalgic for the time when celebs turned up on talk shows only to hawk their flicks or books, not to promote explosive public-health ideas. But McCarthy says she is speaking the truth - her truth...
...important to remember that?the first and still the only treatment that has been shown to make a demonstrably positive developmental impact on autistic children started out as a somewhat radical movement. Behavioral therapy - involving methods, not so different from animal-training techniques, that are now known as ABA, PRT (Pivotal Response Training) and a host of other acronyms - was vilified by many, including what was then the mainstream of autism, when it started in the 1960s. After clinical trials produced positive results, it became the basic treatment for autism. But the success rate for this therapy remains painfully...
McCarthy's conviction stems from her having "recovered" her own son from autism. "Evan couldn't talk - now he talks. Evan couldn't make eye contact - now he makes eye contact. Evan was antisocial - now he makes friends," she explains. "It was amazing to watch, over the course of doing this, how certain therapies work for certain kids and they completely don't work for others ... When something didn't work for Evan, I didn't stop. I stopped that treatment, but I didn't stop." (See how genes, gender and diet may be life extenders...
...This makes a lot of sense. In the end, the famous all have the same boss: the public. And the public is not satisfied with anything but a full accounting (unless you're a supporter of whichever White House Administration just ended). So you can either apologize to everyone, all the time, as women tend to do, or you can man up at some point and make the microphone your confessional. Sorry about that...
...times I left the valley someone gave me a present of a coil that would sit atop a pressure cooker and turn it into a still. It landed on a bookshelf. And there it was, reminding me that out there in the world, there's someone making moonshine. I came across a really surprising story that challenged every preconception I had of what moonshine is. There was a still in Philadelphia in 2002 that exploded. It blew the wall out of a brick warehouse building in North Philadelphia. Inside, there were six 500-gal. tanks. If you ran that every...