Comments on: If anyone gets here through the Channel 4 segment… https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/ Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:23:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mountainrose https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/#comment-19150 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:23:19 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=436#comment-19150 Good observation, Lawrence…and so visually portrayed that I instantly understood your meaning….I do appreciate the many comments on
this blog…I learn a lot here….

]]> By: laurentius-rex https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/#comment-19149 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:40:21 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=436#comment-19149 Yes that is exactly how the notion that 75% of all autists are retarded found its way into the scientific literature, because once something has snook past the sentries it stays in there going round and round until the next big meme pushes it into the background.

]]> By: Philip https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/#comment-19148 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:20:30 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=436#comment-19148 Here is the article on the Channel 4 website: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/a+second+life+with+autism/666657 .

]]> By: Jon https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/#comment-19147 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:18:10 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=436#comment-19147 btw, Channel 4 also appear to have picked up on the Observer newspaper’s inaccurate claim re. a 1 in 58 autism prevalence rate.

]]> By: The Observer’s bad autism science spreads to Channel 4? « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/#comment-19146 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:14:18 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=436#comment-19146 […] – not just across this world – but into the virtual world of Second Life.  In their account of a piece on autism and Second Life, Channel 4 claims that “New research suggests as many as one in 58 children may have […]

]]> By: Axinar https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/#comment-19145 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:42:07 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=436#comment-19145 Yep, that Channel 4 package certainly was a bit oversimplistic, as such stories tend to be, but, I have to admit that has got to be one of the most incredible Second Life Avatar jobs I have ever seen …

]]> By: Baba Yaga https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/#comment-19144 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:07:48 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=436#comment-19144 Larry: Point taken. Glad to hear it. And sorry about tetchiness. (In the appropriate order.)

]]> By: Ivan https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/#comment-19143 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:10:22 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=436#comment-19143 heh…….I was just in London for vacation recently………well, Athena was, at any rate.

I’ll be boiling in Florida on september 12th…….and probably in class, too……..

I love school but certain things about it are such a bother……..

Ivan

]]> By: laurentius-rex https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/#comment-19142 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:49:47 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=436#comment-19142 Yeah Baba Yaga I am aware of that and I think everyone who is involved in it is, it will expand beyond London, London is not convenient to me exactly but it is a good base to start so far as attracting people to a meeting.

We are looking beyond London and the UK but as Mao (the monster) Tse Tung said “every journey begins with the first step”

]]> By: Baba Yaga https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/if-anyone-gets-here-through-the-bbc-segment/#comment-19141 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:09:40 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=436#comment-19141 Larry: Be there (unless you support AFF apartheid and that is)

I wish I could. But not until it happens in Birmingham, or Manchester, or Leeds, or Edinburgh, or Glasgow. Or even Cardiff, though Arriva trains Wales might get a nasty shock if it were. Anywhere which isn’t London.

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