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Episode #70: Aspergers Controversy with Blake Baxter

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Synergy Autism Podcast · Episode #70: Asperger Controversy Podcast with Blake Baxter Episode #70: Aspergers Controversy with Blake Baxter Blake has done an incredible amount of reading and consideration of research on the topic of Asperger having potentially been a Nazi sympathizer. Here, he generously shares some of those articles: The original  Herwig Czech article that started the debate: https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-018-0208-6 Commentary by Baron-Cohen & Silberman,  published the same month in the same journal: https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-018-0209-5 This podcast was recorded prior to the untimely death of a man who wrote on this topic and was very influential. Here, Steve Silberman responds in depth: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/20/463603652/was-dr-asperger-a-nazi-the-question-still-haunts-autism#:~:text=Asperger%20noted%20the%20prevalence%20of,practical%2C%20an%20ability%20to%20ret