PREVIEW - The Friday Edition: Ari Weitzman talks with Jill Escher
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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In today's episode, Managing Editor Ari Wietzman talks with Jill Escher, an autism research philanthropist (Escher Fund for Autism), real estate investor who provides low-income housing for adults with developmental disabilities, former lawyer, and mother of two children with nonverbal autism. In this discussion, she highlights the increasing prevalence of autism, the frustrations with current research methodologies, and the need for more innovative approaches to understanding causation. Escher emphasizes the importance of exploring non-genetic factors, such as environmental exposures, advocates for increased funding and attention to these areas, and touches on the societal perceptions of autism and the balance between acceptance and the urgency to find answers.
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| 1:00.8 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 1:19.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, |
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| 1:37.7 | Today, we have something a little different for you. |
| 1:41.9 | Our managing editor, Ari Weitzman, sat down with Jill Escher. |
| 1:46.5 | Jill is an autism and research philanthropist. Through her foundation, |
| 1:51.7 | the Escher Fund for Autism, she promotes and funds research on the genetic toxicology of autism and related neurodevelopmental pathologies. She is the president of the National Council on Severe |
| 1:57.4 | autism, a real estate investor who provides low-income housing for adults with developmental |
| 2:02.0 | disabilities, a former lawyer, and a mother of two children with nonverbal autism. In her conversation |
| 2:08.4 | with Ari, Jill goes into her journey into autism research, which began with her children's |
| 2:13.4 | diagnoses. She talks about the prevalence of autism and how it's dramatically increased over the |
| 2:18.4 | decades. She also talks about her philanthropic work that has supported innovative autism research |
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