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IMFAR: Andrew Pickles described his role in the PACT (which had a data monitoring committee) as being "dull, pedantic, and pessimistic"

Jonathan Green, Andrew Pickles & Tony Charman gave an outstanding presentation re their big RCT. Unprecedented at IMFAR & in autism research

Overcrowded: IMFAR session on autistic adults. It's the tsunami of researchers who believe that autistic adults are a recent phenomenon.

Lovely to see after waiting patiently for years: Christopher Smith's fascinating data re implicit learning in autism, presented at IMFAR.

Disacknowledgments: the anti-authors "without whom the work would have proceeded much more briskly and less painfully" http://j.mp/94EO4d

There's an unprecedented 152-child early intervention RCT at IMFAR, but the big media story is a 14-child CFGF trial.

When they say "diversity" at IMFAR they mean everything but neurodiversity and anyone but autistics.

I need a butler!

"there should be far more books discussing interesting failures"--Richard Gregory, who died yesterday http://j.mp/afupv0

"he repeatedly found himself "astonished" by young children singing in perfect pitch during his research" http://j.mp/bDNXMO