1.        Ranck JB, Windle WF (1959). Brain damage in the monkey,
Macaca mulatta, by asphyxia neonatorum.
2.        Wernicke C (1881a) Die acute, haemorrhagische Poliencephalitis
superior.
3.        Brody IA, Wilkins RH. (1968) Wernicke's encephalopathy.
4.        Victor M et al (1971) The Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome; a clinical
and pathological study of 245 patients, 82 with post-mortem
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Wernicke's encephalopathy.

I made many attempts to publish articles in mainstream journals,
and received many rejections.  I was sometimes invited to resubmit
a letter-to-the-editor, and most of my publications are letters (of
500 words or less).  Needing more space, I began writing a book.  
A friend suggested posting my ideas on the internet, which I did in
the spring of 2000, at http://conradsimon.org/.  I did that all in html
for a course at Harvard Extension School, which I took to learn web
programming.  Now I am using Yahoo Sitebuilder, which is so much
easier to use.  I have received a lot of correspondence from
viewers of conradsimon.org, and have decided to link this third
reworking of my "viewpoint" to it, rather than try another update in
html, as I did in 2003.

Having learned of the changes in obstetric practice, which seem to
me to parallel the increased prevalence of autism spectrum
disorders, and having even my letters-to-the-editors rejected on
this subject, the title of this update is now Autism, and Evidence of
Error.
,
This is no longer a mere viewpoint on the brain disorder that I
believe results in autism.  I have come to view the obstetric
practice of clamping the umbilical cord before the first breath as a
medical error, and an error as serious as blood-letting in the past
or failure to maintain clean (if not completely sterile) technique in
childbirth assistance.

Having received so many rejections from medical journals, I
attempted in the early 1990s to present my ideas in fictional form.  
I wrote a screenplay and novel, both by the name 36-Bit People,
and I may also post these on the internet.  I took creative and
expository writing courses at (where else) Harvard Extension
School, to better learn the craft of writing.  I still struggle with
finding the best way to express my ideas, and becoming involved
in public discussion of the very serious subject of autism and its
causes.

4 - Approach