1Autism and Environmental Factors, First Edition. Omar Bagasra and Cherilyn Heggen.
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life
without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called
civilized.
Rachel Carson, 1962, Silent SpringThe belief that there is a single defining autism spectrum disorder brain
dysfunction must be relinquished. The noise caused by the thorny brain‐
symptom inference problem must be reduced. Researchers must explore
individual variation in brain measures within autism.
Lynn Waterhouse and Christopher Gillberg, 2014, Why autism
must be taken apart. J. Autism Dev. Disord., 44 (7):1788–The transition from a paradigm in crisis to a new one from which a new
tradition of normal science can emerge is far from a cumulative process,
one achieved by an articulation or extension of the old paradigm. Rather
it is a reconstruction of the field from new fundamentals, a reconstruction
that changes some of the field’s most elementary theoretical generaliza-
tions as well as many of its paradigm methods and applications. During
the transition period there will be a large but never complete overlap
between the problems that can be solved by the old and by the new para-
digm. But there will also be a decisive difference in the modes of solution.
When the transition is complete, the profession will have changed its view
of the field, its methods, and its goals.
Thomas Kuhn, 1969, The structure of scientific revolutions,
in Foundations of the Unity of Science, Volume 2,
pp.146–7. Originally published in 1939