Bartholomew Cubbins on Autism

Click To Play These are some verbal notes from a recent meeting I attended. There are some pictures, but it's mostly an audio thing. One thing I forgot to note was that in the Mirror Neuron presentation, an experiment was discussed that focused on sarcasm and the ability of an ASD child to "get it". "A balloon, oh great." Said by 2 different people means two entirely different things depending upon the tone. One person is excited about the balloon and the other is expressing disappointment following the balloon having popped. The ASD kid doesn't pick up on the meaning unless s/he's told to pay attention to the tone prior to hearing the phrase. Only then does the ASD kid "get it" and the appropriate spots light up on the MRI. Running time - a 22 minute beast that I failed to get under 10 minutes for youtube consumption. For Quicktime version, click here(pops) It's pretty rough, but Bonferroni and Venn have been taking up much of my non-sleeping time lately. Enjoy.

Click To Play For quicktime format click here running time = 6m 21s

Watch the video What does trolling achieve? Self-gratification is the only thing I can think of.

Watch the video Anger, anger everywhere, and not a drop to drink.

Click to Play Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) running time = 7m 11sec or so. Why the blazes would you ever want to put a mole of nucleotides or oligonucleotides into your mouth? Very simple: because you've been told it'll cure autism, that's why. It'll also cure heavy wallet syndrome, and who really wants a big old lump in your back pocket making the derrier look all lopsided and such? Just a quick look at pH and RNase-induced transesterification. Remember, you have a filthy mouth, whether you swear like Cartman or not. For the RNAphiles, I'm not even getting into depurination or anything. Just the basics.

Click to Play I simply had to go to the source of information about RNA drops curing autism and boy, oh boy.  A feller could have an entire blogging career taking these sales pamphlets / presentations / mockery of science apart, piece by piece. btw, I guess last week's injesting/ingesting/in-jesting fun was either too low-brow or too brief. Come on and give me some affirmation love. Maybe more voice-over video fun is the ticket, but it'll have to wait until this RNA drop series is done. running time: ~9m 30secFormats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Click To Play Q: Why would anyone want to get the RNA out of yeast so they can ingest it? A: I don't know, but I know it won't cure Autism. Here's how to do it... Running time: ~3 minutes Click here for Quicktime (pops)

Click To Play This is it, my heart can't take any more of this talk about RNA curing Autism. No amount of ribobabies could get me to do any more. So here's the last bit I have to say about it. If you buy it and drink it, well, it's on you. But please, spare the kids. Other Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Click to Play I get asked all the time about what therapies or interventions I use for our child. Outside of school we simply live life. That's it, but here are some snippets. Run time is 4min 44sec. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

Click to Play Two different short bits dealing with RNA and autism.  One funny and tasty, the other dealing with an ill-informed (euphemism) money hound.  In part 2, the individual actually uses the recent awarding of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of RNAi to help drum up some dollars for the Drinkee Drinkee Cure Autism RNA lady. Runtime is 10 minutes. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)Tags: skeptic, rna, science, autism, salesman