Elon Musk Says He Has Asperger s Syndrome But Is Asperger s Still a Diagnosis? Here s What Experts Told Us Health.com 5 days ago
Elon Musk made a surprising announcement while hosting
Saturday Night Live over the weekend: He has Asperger s syndrome.
Musk slipped his diagnosis into his opening speech, after pointing out that he doesn t have a lot of variation in his tone when he speaks. He then said that he s the first person with Asperger s to host SNL before joking that he s at least the first to admit it.
Plenty of people pointed out on Twitter that Asperger s syndrome is an outdated diagnosis. I always feel a little queasy about having to use Asperger with some older/less informed healthcare providers when they are not up to date with the current terms, one person wrote. I mean, if you just Google for 10 minutes, you get a good glimpse of all the baggage and problems of that word. Another simply wrote that, Asperger s is no longer a diagnosis.
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Former actress and QAnon conspiracy theorist Cirsten Weldon claimed in a May 6, 2021, interview that Hillary Clinton died in 2020 of kuru, a brain-wasting disease associated with cannibalism.
The claim was originally made during an interview with Up Front in the Prophetic, a far-right and pro-QAnon religious podcast that claims “to bring truth and solid biblical answers to the issues of our day.” Weldon’s allegations were then covered by Newsweek after the video was reported by Right Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way that monitors right-wing activists and organizations.
At the 28-minute mark of the video interview, host Francine Fosdick brought up conspiracy theorist Gene “Decode” Consensei, who claimed that Clinton had been “eliminated a long time ago” following a 2018 tribunal. Weldon agreed that Clinton had died, but had a different take on the circumstances.
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In the wake of blood-clotting disorders in six young women who had been vaccinated with the single Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, neurovascular neurologists and hematologists address questions about assessing risks and managing the side effects.
Neurologists are getting queries from anxious patients in the aftermath of a nationwide “temporary” pause in administration of the single-shot Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. As of April 12, more than 6.8 million doses of the Janssen vaccine were administered around the country. Two days later, it climbed to 7.2 million doses.
The pause, requested by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 13, came in the wake of reports that six young women, ages 18 to 48, had developed serious blood clotting problems after receiving the vaccine. At press time, one woman had died, four others had not recovered yet, and one woman was discharged home.