Episode #70: Aspergers Controversy 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%20rethink
Professor Dean Falk’s page with links to her response to  Czech, Czech’s response to her, and her counter-response - this may be my favorite source:
https://deanfalk.com/non-complicit-revisiting-hans-aspergers-career-in-nazi-era-vienna/
Heartbreaking podcast where Alycia Halladay explains that identifying as Asperger’s  doesn’t make you a nazi:
https://asfpodcast.org/archives/496



The Wikipedia article. Note that a separate article on Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t contain information about the controversy, this is the article on Hans Asperger, the person:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger



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