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I would ask my friends here on Hacker News to be cautious about taking the statements in that book at face value without a lot of careful follow-up.[1] And I wr
by tokenadult 13y ago
I would ask my friends here on Hacker News to be cautious about taking the statements in that book at face value without a lot of careful follow-up.[1] And I write that, with chagrin, as a participant here who previously submitted an opinion piece by the author to Hacker News, where it reached the front page and sparked a lot of discussion. The claims in the book are very far from settled science, and many of the anecdotes have not been independently verified or replicated.
[1] http://www.emilywillinghamphd.com/2012/08/autism-immunity-inflammation-and-new.html http://www.emilywillinghamphd.com/2012/08/autism-immunity-in...
- coopermor 13y agoThere's a small public biotech company Coronado Biosciences that just announced a trial to study their drug (pig whipworms) in autism http://ir.coronadobiosciences.com/Cache/1001185864.PDF http://ir.coronadobiosciences.com/Cache/1001185864.PDF. They have other studies in a couple different autoimmune diseases in various stages http://www.coronadobiosciences.com/research-development/pipeline.cfm http://www.coronadobiosciences.com/research-development/pipe... So we'll have some more data regarding this soon.
- mtew 13y agoI found the book straightforward about how unproven the science is, and thought it did a good job of being clear about how speculative the theories are. Were there areas where you thought the book's claims were stronger than what is warranted?