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.
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Could? I fail to see how it won’t.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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As predicted:
From the podium on Wednesday, Kennedy declared that “overall, autism is increasing in prevalence at an alarming rate” and called it “shocking” and “relentless.” He added, again, and without apparent basis, that “most causes are now severe” and insisted that 25 percent of boys diagnosed with autism “are non-verbal, non toilet-trained and have other stereotypical features” including “stimming and toe-walking,” traits he has brought up frequently in past remarks and cast in a negative light. (Stimming can be a self-soothing behavior, but autistic adults have reported trying to mask it to reduce stigma from others.)
None of this has any basis in fact, of course. He is making shit up. But sure as hell he gonna try to “prove” vaccines cause autism and at least try to restrict funding for them. Holy fucking shit, what have we done???
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WTF is he talking about?
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He is lying out his ass as he almost always is. It does not have to make a lick of sense. He needs to portray autistic people as useless and helpless so he can justify eliminating them. The fact that only a small number of them actually come anywhere near this definition is a minor detail to this goal. Add to this the fact that his longer term goal is to make vaccines so hard to get that they go away, this will just add to the fuel. I look for him to defund federal support for childhood vaccines and potentially insist that insurance coverage be cancelled by making them an “elective procedure” to be done at parents’ expense. Good God, I hate this shit.
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It didnt help that the CIA ran a fake polio vaccination program to get intel on Bin Laden
Article from 2013
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No doubt, that’s well known. Does not change one bit when it comes to dead or damaged kids. There is no treatment, only prevention. Nothing justifies withholding that prevention. That plan was utterly fucked up, someone had to know what the blowback would be. But it does not change where we are now, nor the ruined lives it will leave in its wake. The CIA fucking suck for that, among many other shitty things they have done. But the guys who prevent kids from getting vaccinated also fucking suck.
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Yup. Looks like he is determined to kick off his own version of T4. This is exactly the same rethoric/narrative used in the preparatory stage.
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Time to start using children’s toothpaste? Or maybe just let’s see, salt?
Several children’s toothpastes, like Dr Brown’s Baby Toothpaste, did not test positive for any metals and did not contain the ingredients in question.
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Not sure what to make of this site. Went and looked, seems legit, but I always look askance at these sort of “I know better than the scientists” sort of sites. But yeah, I would love to say this shocks me, it does not.
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I stopped recommending rice cereal for infants years ago, looks like I may need to broaden that a bit.
Researchers have known that rice can contain high levels of arsenic, and regulators have suggested exposure limits, especially for infants, who are particularly vulnerable and tend to eat a lot of rice. This new research should put extra pressure on regulators to set more stringent thresholds, the authors say. The US Food and Drug Administration has never set limits for arsenic in foods.
Well, I’m sure they will get right on that…
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