Delighted to announce my new peer-reviewed article on the neonatal jaundice-autism link, published today: “Neonatal Jaundice and Autism: Precautionary Principle Invocation Overdue.” (Free full-text here.)
And a fitting poem from E.E. Cummings’ Misanthropic Moods:
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim(death and life safely beyond)plays with the bigness of his littleness
–electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extendunwish through curving wherewhen til unwash
returns on its unself.A world of made
is not a world of born — pity poor fleshand trees,poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagicalultraomnipotence. We doctors know
a hopeless case if — listen:there’s a hell
of a good universe next door;let’s go
