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Autism expert: Nasa hacker should not be jailed
Video Gary McKinnon's hack of US military systems should be considered "the activity of someone with a disability", according to professor Simon Baron Cohen, the autism expert who diagnosed McKinnon with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autism...
[January 26, 2009, 13:57]
Autism expert: Nasa hacker should not be jailed
News Gary McKinnon's hack of US military systems should be considered "the activity of someone with a disability", according to professor Simon Baron Cohen, the autism expert who diagnosed McKinnon with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autism...
[January 26, 2009, 14:46]
Wi-Fi causes autism! Or not.
Blog Yep, as we were warned earlier this year, Tamara Mariea (a "certified clinical nutritionist"), and the redoubtable Dr George Carlo (see here for more on this "expert on the dangers of electromagnetic radiation") have finally published their...
[November 19, 2007, 11:18]
Wi-Fi causes autism! Or not.
Blog Comment Wireless Radiation in the Etiology and Treatment of Autism: Clinical Observations and Mechanisms http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/emr_autism_acnem_final_1.pdf I have found the web site of the journal and the paper itself.
[November 19, 2007, 23:36]
Is autism inherent in IT?
News Levels of autism in children living in areas where many parents are employed by high-tech companies is above national averages according to recent research. According to a BBC report, the number of recorded cases of autism have soared well above...
[August 16, 2002, 10:13]
Mobile Device Uses Images to Help Children With Autism Interact
White Papers Autism spectrum disorder, which affects more than 500,000 U.S.children and millions more worldwide, can make verbal communication a challenge. With support from Microsoft External Research, two U.S.academic researchers are developing mobile device...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
Wi-Fi causes autism! Or not.
Blog Comment A telling extract: the study was a retrospective observation based on subjects with severe Autism whose parents chose to pursue alternative metal detoxification methods after other traditional approaches had failed.
[November 20, 2007, 8:47]
Wi-Fi causes autism! Or not.
Blog Comment Have you ever really considered the amount of radiation that WiFi gives off? b and 802.11g utilize 2.4 GHz of frequency. I myself have wondered what this could do to young minds. Also, just think about what the advent of wireless communications...
[November 20, 2007, 18:13]
Wi-Fi causes autism! Or not.
Blog Comment It doesn't surprise me that there is no scientific evidence of this as most studies have been done on the long term effects, and specifically cancer, that would take 10, 15 or more years to show up. What is worse is that they tend to use people...
[December 10, 2007, 14:36]
Wi-Fi causes autism! Or not.
Blog Comment I'm not sure why the use of the 2.4GHz band is relevant (your microwave oven gives off a lot more radiation at that frequency than your Wi-Fi router does, by the way), but my attitude is this: real scientists really are investigating this stuff...
[November 21, 2007, 15:40]
Mentally disabled ffs!
Talkback I have a son with autism, and whilst he knows right from wrong, and seems to most people to be completely fine, his mind is seriously compromised. Bearing in mind that common sense does not really figure in people with autism!
[August 22, 2009, 15:42]
Nasa hacker petition presented to Number 10
Blog The petition was signed by 4,338 people, and called on the government to provide protection against extradition for people with autism. McKinnon has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum.
[July 3, 2009, 17:27]
Parliamentary support builds for Nasa hacker
News McKinnon was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome last summer by Cambridge University autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen. I believe that Professor Simon Baron-Cohen's opinion that he is clearly placed within the category of autism spectrum disorder...
[February 25, 2009, 15:38]
McKinnon suffered breakdown, says hacker's mother
Blog Sharp said that the family had contacted autism expert professor Simon Baron Cohen, who had agreed to meet McKinnon, along with Jeremy Turk, an expert in autism and depression. Gary McKinnon, the man accused by US prosecutors of "the biggest...
[August 28, 2009, 17:59]
Cameron: 'No compassion' in hacker decision
News McKinnon, who was not at court on Friday to hear the verdict, was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum, in August 2008. His defence team has argued, with evidence from autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen, that the...
[July 31, 2009, 17:34]
IBM supercomputer to drive brain research
News The researchers hope to understand processes such as perception, thought and memory and to illuminate how malfunctions in the brain's circuitry can lead to problems such as autism or schizophrenia. IBM has sold a multimillion-dollar model of its...
[June 6, 2005, 10:00]
Does not give him a free pass
Talkback I have a son with autism, and whilst he knows right from wrong, and seems to most people to be completely fine, his mind is seriously compromised. "You DO know what Aspergers is, I take it? The man is chronically fixated on fantasies and lives in...
[September 7, 2009, 17:08]
Excellent points
Talkback The reduced culpability argument is not there to excuse ill-judged, illegal behaviour - autism (and I have to express an interest here, one of my sons is severely autistic) is a mental disability. But another symptom of autism is that sufferers...
[September 9, 2009, 17:12]
hacking usa by lezlow
Talkback i wrote recently to the prime minister ,to ask him to intervene directly and allow this AUTISTIC HACKER" autism carries obsessive compulsions: to be tried by a low court here in gb THE REASON? I KNOW A HACKER WHO WITHIN the last few years went into...
[October 10, 2009, 8:27]
Nasa hacker petition tops 4,000
Blog McKinnon was diagnosed with Asperger's, a condition on the autism spectrum, last summer, and faces extradition to the US to face hacking charges. Over 4,000 people have now signed a petition that people with Asperger's Syndrome should not be...
[June 15, 2009, 15:17]
