Mirror neuron hype proves to be not a reflection of reality

Ha ha friggin' ha! Despite all the ink that has been spilt printing wildly overconfident speculation that autism is caused by bung mirror neurons, another study torpedoing the good ship neurohype has been reported. Please send my condolences to Ramachandran and the Italians.

Mirror neurons seen behaving normally in autism
Ewen Callaway
New Scientist
May 12th 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18837-mirror-neurons-seen-behaving-normally-in-autism.html