Where Are DeSoto And Hitlan? - Updated 4/9
March 30, 2008 by Do'C 
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AN IMPORTANT UPDATE 4/9/2008 appears at the bottom of this post (with link to April issue of JCN).
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“Keep your eyes open for March’s issue of JCN: “About Mercury and Autism: A need to clarify” by DeSoto and Hitlan.”
- M. Catherine DeSoto And Robert T. Hitlan
Earlier this year, Interverbal and I wrapped up a series about a journal article by M. Catherine DeSoto and Robert T. Hitlan, of the University of Northern Iowa.
M. Catherine DeSoto and Robert T. Hitlan J Child Neurol 2007; 22; 1308.
I’m not going to provide a recap, but our entire series is available at the following links.
DeSoto & Hitlan, 2007: Revisited – Part Three
January 27, 2008 by Do'C Printer-Friendly Version
“Q. What is wrong with bloggers posting anything they want?”
“A. Nothing if everyone reading it took the time to verify everything they read on their own.”
- M. Catherine DeSoto And Robert T. Hitlan
“We don’t think we could have said better ourselves.”
- Do’C and Interverbal
DeSoto & Hitlan, 2007: Revisited – Part Two
January 25, 2008 by Do'C Printer-Friendly Version
By Do’C and Interverbal
In Part One of our DeSoto & Hitlan, 2007 revisit, we mentioned that we thought DeSoto & Hitlan made several important mistakes, (including some that merit formal correction), and that it is this aspect specifically, and not DeSoto & Hitlan’s abilities, that we call into question. Before we get to those important mistakes, we’d like to respond to a few of the apparent minor misunderstandings of logic, contained in the DeSoto & Hitlan FAQ.
Logical Fallacies
DeSoto & Hitlan imply in their FAQ that we used several logical fallacies. Specifically they write:
DeSoto & Hitlan, 2007: Revisited – Part One
January 23, 2008 by Do'C Printer-Friendly Version
By Do’C and Interverbal
Introduction
Back in November of 2007 we wrote an article about a recent paper by DeSoto & Hitlan. Also, Dr. DeSoto has since published a FAQ about the paper at her university website.
The intention of our original article was a critical look at what this paper had to offer to those interested in autism research. When we first read the DeSoto & Hitlan, 2007 paper, we noticed several issues that concerned us greatly.
There seemed to be some gray areas and even overt errors that should be addressed. In our opinion, these errors range in form, from overstatements about cited articles, assertions for which no appropriate supporting science was presented, and reliance on older publications that were not subjected to the process of peer-review, to citation of a paper that does not appear to support the assertion for which it was cited in the first place. We also looked at the statistics in some detail.
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