Emily Willingham

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Emily Jane Willingham
Born1968 (age 55–56)
UCSF, Texas State University, St. Edward's University[1][2]
ThesisEmbryonic exposure to low-dose pesticides : dose response and effects on growth in the hatching red-eared slider turtle (2001)

Emily Jane Willingham (born 1968) is an American journalist and scientist. Her writing focuses on neuroscience, genetics, psychology, health and medicine, and occasionally on evolution and ecology.[3]

She is the joint recipient with David Robert Grimes of the 2014 John Maddox Prize, awarded by science charity Sense about Science, for standing up for science in the face of personal attacks.[4]

Education

Willingham received her bachelor's degree in English in 1989 and her PhD in biology in 2001, both from the University of Texas at Austin. She completed a fellowship in pediatric urology at the University of California, San Francisco, from 2004 to 2006,[5][6] where she studied under Laurence S. Baskin.[1]

Writing

Willingham's work has been published online at Scientific American, Aeon, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Slate, Undark, Knowable, The Scientist, and others and has appeared in print in several local, regional, and national outlets, including in single-issue publications for Centennial Media.[3]

Willingham was a contributor to the Forbes network for several years and ran an informal blog, "A Life Less Ordinary", which she started in 2007 and which published its last post on November 25, 2011.

autism epidemic may, in fact, just be the result of diagnostic substitution and increased awareness of the condition.[11] She was called "one of the sharpest science writers in the blogosphere" by Steve Silberman.[12]

In 2016, Willingham, along with co-author

The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years, which examines the science around several parenting-related controversies and common parenting concerns.[13]

In 2020, Emily Willingham published her next book titled Phallacy. The book is a deep dive into penises in the animal kingdom within which she creates a new word for penis, intromittum, a more general description for all organs that relay sex cells between sexual mates of all species.[14]

In 2021, she published another book, The Tailored Brain, that speaks on and debunks myths about diets, supplements, and brain training techniques said to improve brain function.[15]

Research

Willingham has published 44 scientific papers, and, according to

pesticides and other environmental compounds on sex determination and development in the red-eared slider.[17] She also has published on the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as atrazine
.

Personal life

Willingham stated in 2012 that she identified as having Asperger syndrome, which her son has been diagnosed with, but did not intend to pursue a formal diagnosis.[18]

Selected publications

Scientific papers

Books

References

  1. ^
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  2. ^ "Research Fellows Trained". University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  3. ^ a b c "About". www.emilywillinghamphd.com. Retrieved 2018-11-24.
  4. ^ 2014 John Maddox Prize Archived 2014-10-28 at the Wayback Machine, Sense about Science
  5. ^ Emily. "Emily Willingham: About". Emilywillinghamphd.com. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  6. ^ "CV". Nasw.org. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  7. ^ "A life less ordinary?". Daisymayfattypants.blogspot.com. 2011-10-18. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  8. ^ "Vaccines Not Linked To Autism. Again". Forbes. 2013-03-29. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  9. ^ "Seralini Paper Influences Kenya Ban of GMO Imports". Forbes. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  10. ^ Willingham, Emily (2012-12-17). "Asperger's and Newtown school shooting: Autistic does not mean violent". Slate.com. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  11. ^ Willingham, Emily (11 July 2012). "Is Autism an "Epidemic" or Are We Just Noticing More People Who Have It?". Discover. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  12. Public Library of Science. Archived from the original
    on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  13. ISBN 9780399171062
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  14. ^ "'Phallacy' deflates myths about the penises of the animal kingdom". 2020-11-03. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
  15. ^ "The Tailored Brain: From Ketamine to Keto, to Companionship, a User's Guide to Feeling Better and Thinking Smarter by Emily Willingham". www.publishersweekly.com. 15 November 2021. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
  16. ^ "Emily Willingham - Google Scholar Citations". Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  17. ^ Emily Willingham Biography
  18. ^ Des Roches Rosa, Shannon (21 April 2012). "Emily Willingham and Autism Acceptance Month". Thinking Person's Guide to Autism. Retrieved 25 May 2023.

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