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Got it.
I never used to even think about the two being connected and never thought it was. But I also, not having children -- and I'm glad this is not something I have to worry about now -- I didn't realize how many more vaccinations there are for kids these days. And we're supposed to be "healthier" but autism never used to be the problem it is now.
Obesity never used to be the problem it is now. So when are we going to start getting healthier? This thread is obvs measles and diet doesn't tie into that; but I believe more and more that the engineering of our food over the last 50 years -- which is probably RFK's overarching focus but we like to get lost in the weeds -- and we keep getting sold a bill of goods about it. And I can't do my own research; but, at this point, who and what am I supposed to trust in "healthcare"?
But now you can only be two things: a complete believer or a complete denyer. Medicine is nuanced, not black and white. And what I've learned about nutrition and after COVID, I got way more questions than I ever had and with no very clear answers on what DOES cause autism, that's what fuels my skepticism.
The insidious thing about most misinformation/conspiracy theories is that there is a small nugget of truth in them
Portion sizes are 2 or 3 times the size they were in 1970. A 'medium' soda today was called a Big Gulp when I was a kid. Our food has stuff in it that other countries have banned. We put sugar in everything. Food is engineered specifically to be more addictive
All concerning and absolutely be seriously looked at and addressed
There are a lot more cases of autism than there used to be
Also disturbing from the article. in 1985 Autism was diagnosed in 1 out of 2500 people. Today it's 1 in 110. What the hell would cause a leap like that??
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...side-of-autism-/2011/03/11/ABYhoSS_story.html
So it's natural to wonder why that is. Other articles have said that the vast majority of diagnoses' are made when young at the time the child is getting a bunch of different shots for a bunch of different things. So it's natural to wonder if there is a connection. which has been researched and found to have no connection
Couple that with the fact that science changes and evolves. Things that science said was an absolute fact 20, 50, 100 years ago are no longer facts.
As research and technology changes, improves and evolves things we know are absolute scientific facts today will change. At one point 'science' said that it was impossible for humans to go faster than 50 miles an hour, if they did blood would separate and organs would disintegrate
What current fact will people a hundred years from look back the same way?
We know and do things today that were considered impossible, people decades from now will be doing things that we think are impossible today
There is a distrust in healthcare in general (well earned BTW)
I openly wondered if a pharma company would sit on a cure for something in favor of a daily pill
https://saintsreport.com/threads/disease-cure-question.350593/
And all of that is the playground that conspiracy theorists and bad actors play in
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Maybe in 5 years with better tests/technology it will be discovered that vaccines cause autism after all"
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Maybe in 5 years it will be revealed that the government already knew that vaccines cause autism and have been covering it up"
And those
maybes are the fuel that keep the engine running
This was the response to my autism question
Also disturbing from the article. in 1985 Autism was diagnosed in 1 out of 2500 people. Today it's 1 in 110. What the hell would cause a leap like that??
That the rise in incidence is mostly or completely an artifact of increased surveillance and broadening of the definition of autism.
In the 1990′s the diagnosis of autism was changed to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) – the new name reflecting the changing concept of autism to include a broader spectrum of symptoms, including much more subtle manifestations. In particular a diagnostic entity known as Aspergers syndrome, which is essentially a subtle manifestation of autism features, was classified as part of ASD. Any time you broaden a category the number of individuals that fit into that category is likely to increase.
Autism researcher Eric Fombonne found that:
Recent epidemiological surveys of autistic disorder and other PDDs have heightened awareness of and concern about the prevalence of these disorders; however, differences in survey methodology, particularly changes in case definition and case identification over time, have made comparisons between surveys difficult to perform and interpret. (Fombonne 2005)
In addition to the broadening of the diagnosis, the social and medical network supporting ASD dramatically increased. There has been increased efforts at surveillance – scouring the community for hidden cases of autism. Further, parents have become much more accepting of the diagnosis, which may partly be due to the fact that is some states the label with facilitate access to special services. And clinicians have become more knowledgeable of ASD so are better able to make the diagnosis, even in subtle cases.
Rutter, in order to test this latter hypothesis that increased diagnostic rates were due largely to changes in diagnosis and surveillance,
reviewed literature that contained sufficient information to assess true historical rates of autism. He found that applying modern criteria to these historical records yields similar rates of diagnoses: 30-60 per 10,000. Taylor did a similar review and found the following:
The recorded prevalence of autism has increased considerably in recent years. This reflects greater recognition, with changes in diagnostic practice associated with more trained diagnosticians; broadening of diagnostic criteria to include a spectrum of disorder; a greater willingness by parents and educationalists to accept the label (in part because of entitlement to services); and better recording systems, among other factors. (Taylor 2006)
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-increase-in-autism-diagnoses-two-hypotheses/
https://saintsreport.com/threads/autism-and-the-law.194163/