A neurochemistry journal has retracted a paper that claimed prenatal vaccine exposure caused autism-like behaviors in rats. The retraction comes more than a year after the paper’s publication and amid criticism of its methodology. The paper, which was originally published 10 January 2024 in Neurochemical Research, purported to show reduced sociability in rats born to […]
Over the objections of the authors, the editors of Nature have retracted a 2022 paper on the cellular origins of medulloblastoma after an independent team’s reanalysis questioned the paper’s key findings. The reanalysis was published as a Matters Arising article today in Nature at the same time as the retraction notice. The 2022 paper, led […]
Citation inflation: Autism studies, among others, appear in the reference lists of unrelated articles, possibly in an attempt to artificially improve authors’ metrics. Half Dark/Getty Images One contribution deals with the aesthetic beauty of plant landscapes. Another reviews the use of anesthetics in cancer patients. A third aims to optimize the efficient operation of buses […]
Price Tag: Parents of autistic children have been charged with participating in clinical trials attempting to use stem cells to treat the condition. Vital Hil / iStock A critically criticized 2019 paper describing a study using stem cells to treat autistic children was withdrawn after the authors failed to disclose that participants paid thousands of […]
NEW DELHI: Emphasizing that according to the Unified District Information on School Education (UDISE) + data in 2018-19, slightly less than 30% of schools across the country had children with disabilities enrolled and that there is wide interstate variation , a “White Paper” on “National Education Policy and Disability-Friendly Education” advocates focusing on improving their […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to this week’s community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. Before we start, I’d like to let you know about a new Spectrum survey. We are interested to hear how autism researchers approach conferences by the end of the year. Are […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to this week’s community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. A new article in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders caused a big stir on Twitter this week. “Rising prevalence, the shift in costs that are dominated from child to […]
