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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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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@gtra1n That's only if you ignore the fact that the word "beatitude" is core Catholicism and almost never used in Buddhism. I literally spoke to Herbert Huncke, who sighed "I'm beat" one day to Kerouac, which is where the whole thing began. But never mind, take care.
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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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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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@JenniAgitator @thereal_truther Oh thanks, but there's no way I'll do a Twitter Space while Elon owns it. I'm allergic to fascists.
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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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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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