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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: An American Epidemic: Glyphosate, Autism, and Autoimmunity- Dr. Stephanie Seneff, MIT CSAIL, DS Pod #229
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, who turned her attention to an infamous neurodevelopmental epidemic when a friend’s child was suddenly diagnosed with the condition. Using her technical knowledge of natural language processing systems, Seneff set out to untangle the biological literature to see if it was possible to identify an environmental contaminant that could be responsible for the exploding numbers of diagnoses. To her surprise, there was a robust correlation with widespread use of gl...