Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman
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Author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, a NYT bestseller. The Taste of Salt, a history of cystic fibrosis, coming 2025.
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Joined January 2009
Terry Gross of @nprfreshair is the best interviewer in the business. The transcript of my 2015 interview with Terry about my history of #autism and #neurodiversity, #NeuroTribes, is archived here. It was an honor to talk to her.
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Steve Silberman talks about how Nazi extermination plans and a discredited scientific paper about childhood vaccines shaped our current understanding of autism.
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RT @JenniAgitator: @kath2cats @StarveDevil @loanly_hipster @Holden_Culotta @thereal_truther @Debunk_the_Funk Science writer and author of “….
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Thanks, Julie. I won't explain on X, which promotes antivax liars, but my book #NeuroTribes explains this history in depth.
As an autism mom from the 90s, I questioned vaccines when they contained mercury. That ingredient has been removed, autism numbers have not decreased, & science tends to disprove a link. @stevesilberman can explain better than I why conspiracy theories took off back then. 1/2.
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RT @stevesilberman: [1/2] I rarely post in this cesspool of disinformation anymore, but my late friend @thedavidcrosby would've been thrill….
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[2/2] . how heartbroken he was about the GOP and the sale of his beloved Twitter to "lunatic" Elon Musk, as he put it. “I’d be very happy with [Elizabeth] Warren or [Kamala] Harris…it is time for a woman to be president” - David Crosby, Twitter, 8/4/19 via IG: @morningfalling.
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[1/2] I rarely post in this cesspool of disinformation anymore, but my late friend @thedavidcrosby would've been thrilled about the rise of Kamala. David was one of the most patriotic people I've ever known -- he loved America deeply. Before David died, he made clear to me.
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LOL-in-horror moments of new @nytimes puff piece: Reporter dutifully reciting Elon Musk's BS about buying Twitter to "test how a citizen-led government that rules by consensus might work on Mars," and not realizing "selective breeding" is Nazi eugenics.
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SpaceX employees are working on designs for a Martian city, including dome habitats and spacesuits, and researching whether humans can procreate off Earth. Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm.
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American Democracy [1776-2024]. The killers are still at large. Eulogy by Justice Sotomayor.
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Evergreen.
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RT @jerrygarcia: “Deadheads used to say that seeing the Garcia Band at the Warfield was like going to church. With Melvin, Jackie, and Glor….
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This @ap tweet is an instant candidate for the Museum of American Fascism. Carve it in stone and put it over the entrance. It should be an enduring source of burning shame and embarrassment for the entire organization, as well as a warning to other media.
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RT @stevesilberman: Why RFK Jr. and Nicole Shanahan are so dangerous for the people they claim to represent. If you missed this new SciAm c….
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archived 3 Jun 2024 16:02:02 UTC
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RT @JennyBoylan: Twenty-two years to the day after GCS I am applying for a change in my birth certificate. It never seemed necessary befor….
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Ditto.
When I die, please use it as an excuse to get out of any social engagements. Consider it my final gift to you.
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Why RFK Jr. and Nicole Shanahan are so dangerous for the people they claim to represent. If you missed this new SciAm column of mine because you hit a paywall, here's a de-paywalled version:
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archived 3 Jun 2024 16:02:02 UTC
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RT @priscillagilman: Steve Silberman has written an important & eloquent piece about RFK Jr’s hideous record on & offensive statements abou….
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Conspiracy thinking about autism drives anti-vaxxer presidential candidate RFK Jr.’s pick for vice president
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Please read and spread this link: Why Nicole Shahanan, RFK Jr.'s running mate, is so dangerous for disabled people like her own daughter, and how she's playing into one of the darkest chapters of the Kennedy legacy. My new column for @SciAm.
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Conspiracy thinking about autism drives anti-vaxxer presidential candidate RFK Jr.’s pick for vice president
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RT @itsJeffTiedrich: live your life in such a way that the entire world isn't breathlessly waiting for your guilty verdict.
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RT @EricMGarcia: I'm a native of Skokie, Illinois. So you can imagine how it must feel to have a full circle moment like having my book We'….
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I'm not on X much anymore for REASONS, but here's my annual #StarWarsDay retweet.
@RhysParry65 You may have heard this before, but I saw Star Wars with poet Allen Ginsberg when it opened in Boulder in 1977. When the crawl went up the screen ("A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away. "), Allen sighed, "Thank God, I don't have to worry about it!".
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