Informed Only Please

Pennsylvania’s POWER Library (https://powerlibrary.org) resource has been featured by certain local Libraries that are awardees of state grants: for the purpose of encouraging young adults in particular to seek only informed sources of literature, whatever the subject matter, from auto mechanics to medicine and other sciences. In the current polluted world of the Internet, it is really difficult for people to distinguish informed from uninformed. You see that with one subject in particular these days, namely neurodiversity, including autism. The proven science on this subject has become awash in undiluted and shameful nonsense by people who know nothing. And it can have very serious, even devastating, consequences. This is what one young mother of an autistic child wrote to me: “The …