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1:50pm August 2, 2014

dendriforming:

annalevys:

these scientists tried to do a test involving fish and autism but since they couldnt detect autism in fish, they just used gastrointestinal dysfunction and big heads and said that fish that have those characteristics are “autistic fish” and im laughing because scientists are ridiculous, stop them now

I had an interviewer who said his zebrafish weren’t social any more after he blasted them with loud noise. He wanted to know if I thought they were autistic.

Animal models of autism nearly always suck donkey balls.

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    Animal models get so ludicrous sometimes, and then somehow they lead to sweeping generalizations once it hits the media…
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    when I talked about how bad beliefs produce bad science, this is what I mean.
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    Another reason why this is ridiculous: the human gene CHD8 is the homologue of a mouse gene called Duplin. Mice are...
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