CHAPTER 2
The Reliability Bias
Why Advancing Knowledge Is So Hard
IN THE SPRING of 2008, I met an enthusiastic and gregarious geneticist named Stephen Scherer, from Toronto’s world-renowned Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Scherer, it turns out, is one of world’s leading researchers into autism, or to be more precise, into autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study of autism is a relatively young field, with a body of research going back only seventy years or so. The somewhat scattered nature of the research is representative of the challenges faced by the investigators of any mystery. With a mystery, it is difficult to know where to start. What is this condition? Where does it originate? How does it operate? What makes children with ASD behave ...
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