An Anthropologist on Mars is the title of Oliver Sacks’ 1993 influential essay on Temple Grandin — an essay that introduced Ms. Grandin and autism more generally to a broad audience. Sacks took the title from Ms. Grandin’s description of how she perceived daily social interactions.

The Senate budget committee on Wednesday voted to mandate that insurers cover an intensive autism therapy, but the committee chairman said he might refuse to move the bill to the floor as he presses for changes to it.

Two weeks ago, the Journal of Translational Science published a paper that reported a correlation between vaccination and autism in 666 children. On Monday, the paper disappeared from their website, with no explanation or retraction notice. Google’s cache still has the paper here.