This is just… fucked up.
It’s really fucked up because many take out food places just toss the receipt in the bag next to wrapped and unwrapped food, and fast food places generally don’t have the ability to email receipts. 
We also stopped having receipts emailed because it seemed to give permission to send spam. I’m telling my husband to start using my junk email address (Yahoo) if he buys anything.
Oh no. I know parents (including us!) who would let little kids hold the receipts on the way to the car
The proximity to food is also very alarming
Secretary Kennedy is not anti-vaccine; he is pro-safety,
This bullshit line has been used for decades by antivaxxers. Just yesterday we read he was critcizing the lack of placebo-controlled trials, just ignoring how incredibly unethical that would be. It’s a strawman justification for yhe broader antivaxx platform.
Embedded link that made me do a double-take:
I don’t like the vitamin C angle on this.
I also don’t like the “several foods that I often eat” angle.
Scientists particularly probed the role of oxalic acid – found in many foods like tomatoes, spinach, nuts and berries – as the molecule binds with metal ions and is implicated in the formation of kidney stones.
Just tomatoes, berries, nuts, and citrus is my diet every day
And what about emergency MRI?! Maybe the focus should be on finding a contrast that doesn’t have this potentially deadly effect
Starting right about now. This could be interesting, or it could be horrifying. It will certainly be an indicator at how deep the RFK jr rot has sunk.
I was shocked at the statistic cited until I read more slowly and caught the “that lead to admission” part. The ones that lead to admission should be the sicker, more urgent cases. A 4 hour wait in our local ED would be just a day ending in “Y”. The vast majority of those who are in an ED should never be in an ED. They are minor illnesses or injuries that should see their PCP’s. Of course, adults rarely have PCP’s anymore, and kids frequently can only get to medical care when their parents are off work, often after office hours. And most urgent care centers don’t or won’t see kids. Waiting 6, 8 12 hours for a cold seems ridiculous, but we see it all the time. And it is going to get worse if the mess of a budget plan goes through. My wife is convinced that they would never do something that would hurt so many people. She is a pure soul. I have no such hope.
I will give props to ABC for including tis in the article:
The experts, however, said Kennedy and others are missing important context about why autism rates are increasing. In addition to the broadening of the definition of ASD, they say reasons for rising rates may include people having children at older ages, better awareness and access to diagnostic testing.
But this was the very last paragraph in the article. It should have been the first!
My theory is that while older parents, and particularly fathers, are associated with increased rates of autism, older parents are also more likely to have the resources to pursue a diagnosis and access the support services out there. I don’t think this is the whole story, by any means, but it is part of it.
Here’s the joke I tell over and over again:
When are boys typically diagnosed as autistic?
Preschool or kindergarten.
When are girls typically diagnosed as autistic?
After their sons are.
Could? I fail to see how it won’t.
Written by the same editor who comes up with headlines like “Trump could be moving more to the authoritarian right” or “Stephen Miller may have a problem with brown people”.
Long story short: Yes.
Longer version: USAID funded a lot of polio prevention campaigns. They are shutting down now. Pakistan and Afghanistan are both facing increasing cases and increasing transmission. But, of course, they are brown and don’t matter, right? Except the bugs do not respect borders and can travel very easily. We are, once again, shooting ourselves in the foot under the guise of saving money. And being assholes. Probably more that last one.
This year, the ADDM included 16 sites across the country—in many past years, there were 11 sites. It’s important to highlight that although the prevalence rates from these sites are often seen as national estimates of ASD prevalence, they are not. These 16 sites are not nationally representative. The populations within ADDM “do not generate nationally representative ASD prevalence estimates,” the authors caution.
It will be used as such by RFK and his goons, I will predict.
Among the sites, there were large differences. Prevalence ranged from 9.7 per 1,000 children who were 8 years old in Texas (Laredo) to 53.1 in California. These differences are likely due to “differences in availability of services for early detection and evaluation and diagnostic practices,” the CDC and network researchers wrote.
For instance, California—the site with the highest prevalence among 8-year-olds and also 4-year-olds—has a local initiative called the Get SET Early model. “As part of the initiative, hundreds of local pediatricians have been trained to screen and refer children for assessment as early as possible, which could result in higher identification of ASD, especially at early ages,” the authors write. “In addition, California has regional centers throughout the state that provide evaluations and service coordination for persons with disabilities and their families.”
On the other hand, the low ASD rates at the network’s two Texas sites could “suggest lack of access or barriers to accessing identification services,” the authors say. The two Texas sites included primarily Hispanic and lower-income communities.
Straight from the MAGAt playbook. If we don’t look, it ain’t there.