Did you hear the ABC Radio National show All in the Mind today?

Today's story was "Autism: genetics, early detection and the ethics of screening newborns". It will be repeated on Monday at 1.00pm and a transcript will be available on Wednesday, and you can listen and download audio over the internet.

One of the guests on the show is researcher Dr Hakon Hakonarson, who's recently published genetic study of autism was at the centre of an international media hype shitstorm a few weeks ago. I wrote about it here: http://incorrectpleasures.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html in the post titled "Autism beatup du jour". New Scientist magazine reported the Hakonarson study here:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17041-gene-variant-found-in-65-of-autism-cases.html

Link to the story transcript at All in the Mind:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2009/2567806.htm#transcript

Link to the All in the Mind Blog:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/allinthemind/

Link to the Hakonarson study at Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature07999.html