The New York Times Discovers the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Headline:  Study Increases Prevalence of Autism.  While the article does suggest that rising autism rates may be due to increasing awareness of the disease, it does not actually suggest that the study in question had managed to induce autism in its unsuspecting patient population.

Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.