Why Are Autism Rates Steadily Rising?

Why Are Autism Rates Steadily Rising?

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Caren Chesler
Caren Chesler is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, Slate, Salon, and Popular Mechanics. She has a blog called The Dancing Egg, about having a baby at 47 through IVF.
Is Alzheimer's Research On the Wrong Track?

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Linda Marsa
Linda Marsa is a contributing editor at Discover, a former Los Angeles Times reporter and author of Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Harm Our Health and How We Can Save Ourselves (Rodale, 2013), which the New York Times called “gripping to read.” Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Science Writing, and she has written for numerous publications, including Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Nautilus, Men’s Journal, Playboy, Pacific Standard and Aeon.
Just Say No to Editing Human Embryos for Reproduction

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Hille Haker
Hille Haker is the Richard McCormick, S. J., Chair of Moral Theology at Loyola University Chicago. She is the co-director of the Research Project “Medical Ethics in Health Care Chaplaincy," and she is currently the President of Societas Ethica, European Society for Research in Ethics. From 2005-2015, she was a member of the European Group on Ethics in Sciences and New Technologies (EGE) to the European Commission. With PhD/MA degrees in Catholic Theology, German Literature, and Philosophy, her works are in the fields of bioethics, social ethics, feminist ethics, and ethics and literature.