According to an article in The Palm Beach Post,
One in every 100 children in the United States may have some form of autism spectrum disorder, far more than previously believed, and the rate appears to be worsening quickly, especially among boys, new figures from the CDC show.I agree. If 1 in 100 people was catching the swine flu, the media would be all over it!
Researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at the 2006 medical and school records of 308,000 children in 11 communities, including Miami. They found rates of autism much higher than a similar study done in 2002, said Catherine Rice, of the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
The 2000 data had suggested one in 150 children were affected.
It was a stunning run-up of 59 percent in four years, and the increase could not be explained just by better awareness or an expanded diagnosis, researchers found. The findings were published Friday in the CDC journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The findings should be treated as a national emergency, autism activists said.
At The Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, neuroscientist Dr. Claes Wahlestedt is studying the genetics of Fragile X syndrome, which is often accompanied by autism.
"The dilemma with autism is that they are probably a bunch of different disorders. As we understand more, we will be able to subdivide the disease, and that will lead to better treatments down the line," Wahlestedt said. "What it is in the environment that is changing so dramatically I cannot understand. But the genetics are arguably little changed."
Great topic, deserves much more attention.
ReplyDelete"Before the 1990s only 1 in every 10,000 children was diagnosed with autism. Nowadays over 1 in every 150 children born in America comes down with autism, and each time it’s those children who have been “immunized” who begin having seizures or start mentally going downhill right after vaccinations. The Amish, numbering around 200,000 who religiously oppose vaccinations, have never had a case of autism. Based on sheer statistics, they should have well over 100 autistic among their numbers right now, but they do not. They are mixed right into the Pennsylvania population with a rapidly increasing ratio of autistic kids, yet remain unaffected." from here
ReplyDeleteI think the vaccinations are part of the cause.
ReplyDeleteVaccines are undoubtedly the cause. The Amish don't vaccinate, they don't have autism. Before vaccines were invented, autism was virtually unknown to the world. Now as childhood vaccines are increasing (most American children have more than 30 before the age of 2) the autism rate is sky-rocketing. And more times than not, the on-set of autism is seen within days/weeks of major inoculations.
ReplyDeleteVaccines and Autism
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You don't have autism, TRT, and it is not vaccines that cause it. Jesus fucking christ, you gullible idiot.
ReplyDeleteIt would seem that the majority here believe that vaccines are the culprit. I am not thoroughly convinced one way or the other simply because millions of people have been vaccinated through the years and only a small percentage develop something on the autism spectrum. So, while vaccines may have a role, there has to be something else at play.
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It would help to bolster your position if you offered rationale rather than making flat declarations. Unsupported statements are in no way convincing and make you look like a reactionary person.
Maybe anon is not interested in bolstering his position.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he feels rationale is wasted on a leftist.
Unsupported statements are the habitual fare of the internet intelligentsia. Nobody is likely to be convinced of anything if they are not interested in listening and considering.
Looking like a reactionary person might not bother anon either.
Perhaps he is unconcerned by what he may look like...
His post was rude, but as valid as anything else I have read here.
And what I read here is nothing but opinion, anyway.
What TRT does to taoism is very similar to what the anglican church is doing to christianity.
Start out by believing there is no god, and lay waste to all tradition, history and social mores.
Why bother calling yourself christian anyway? Or taoist?
Anon's comment was - if nothing else - a welcome change from the usual.
THE AMERICAN TAOIST IS NOT THE ANONYMOUS ABOVE, I AGREE WITH THE LATEST INFORMATION EVEN THOUGH NONE OF MY CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN ARE AFFECTED. LUCKY THEY HAVE NOT BEEN INFECTED BY IGNORANCE AND STILL HAVE AN OPEN MIND.
ReplyDeletei will now sign with my name.
Praise de lord.
ReplyDeleteHe finally discovered how to un-shift-lock his keyboard.
Upper case or lower case type doesn't matter to me. To each his own.
ReplyDeletetHAt'S gOOD.
ReplyDeletewhO nEEDS conVENtION aNywAY?
lol my mother in law types in all caps. because she can't see very well. i type in all lowercase because i have a baby in one hand which makes capitalization hard :) i make an exception for smileys.
ReplyDeletewhether or not vaccines cause autism is a huge debate and i seriously doubt if any know the answer, currently. my opinion is that it's not the only thing that is causing autism rates to skyrocket, but it might be a factor. (it is known that vaccines cause other autoimmune disease as an occasional side effect) my son is not vaccinated- he doesn't go to daycare and won't go to public school (at least initially) so he has very little chance of contracting a vaccine-preventable disease, but when he is 1 year old i'll start vaccinating him.
We have lower case and upper case letters for a reason. Using both makes it easier to read sentences in English.
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