After looking at the history of autism research, my conclusion is that autism has been improperly studied by the US public health agencies and that tremendous public health resources have been wasted over a period of two decades.
Case in point, with regards to vaccines and autism, only one vaccine (MMR) has been studied for a link to autism. But worse yet, this single vaccine has been repeatedly studied over a dozen times.
There is no consideration for: 1) the other dozen or so vaccines on the schedule, 2) timing of multiple vaccines given in one sitting, 3) the effects of the cumulative vaccine schedule (72+ doses), and 4) the effects of problematic ingredients (aluminum adjuvant being the foremost one).
"We Can End the Autism Epidemic — By Telling the Truth"
Know it’s about autism, but side comment on JAMA. Only 20% of physicians nationwide are members of AMA. The administrative budget for AMA is 10 million and JAMA is not the same publication it once was. They don’t publish pro-life articles and continue to push the gender affirming surgery-hormone narrative-abortion rights. JAMA and AMA are not listening to all physicians nationwide.
A big problem is that the diagnosis of autism has been applied to a number of neurological disorders that may or may not be related to one another. It may be that this has contributed to the increasing numbers over the last few decades. Data sets are only useful when the data is accurate. AI cannot deal with matters requiring judgement or nuance, but it can mislead people into fruitless blind alleys of research such as we have seen in the "preventive" measures recommended for cardiovascular disease.
I was going to write something very similar to Mxtyplk.
JAMA is a medical publication. Autistic individuals are treated with antipsychotics (psychiatrist), and differing therapies such as Anger management, Family therapy, Applied behavior analysis, Behavior therapy, Animal-Assisted therapy. These fall under psychology, counseling, and developmental disciplines so would not be published in JAMA. I should add some research is done in labs, researching the strong genetic tie to autism.
The problem is that autism is not a medical condition, it’s a medicalization of problem behavior and in general of the situation of being a “weird” kid. You cannot just throw a ton of data at the situation and get a real understanding of it when the underlying conceptual and diagnostic categories are so confused.
Perhaps the range of qualifying symptoms is overly broad, but a child who is non-verbal and easily overwhelmed by ordinary stimuli beyond the age of toddlerhood is not just a "weird kid."
After looking at the history of autism research, my conclusion is that autism has been improperly studied by the US public health agencies and that tremendous public health resources have been wasted over a period of two decades.
Case in point, with regards to vaccines and autism, only one vaccine (MMR) has been studied for a link to autism. But worse yet, this single vaccine has been repeatedly studied over a dozen times.
There is no consideration for: 1) the other dozen or so vaccines on the schedule, 2) timing of multiple vaccines given in one sitting, 3) the effects of the cumulative vaccine schedule (72+ doses), and 4) the effects of problematic ingredients (aluminum adjuvant being the foremost one).
"We Can End the Autism Epidemic — By Telling the Truth"
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/world-autism-day-end-epidemic-telling-the-truth/
Know it’s about autism, but side comment on JAMA. Only 20% of physicians nationwide are members of AMA. The administrative budget for AMA is 10 million and JAMA is not the same publication it once was. They don’t publish pro-life articles and continue to push the gender affirming surgery-hormone narrative-abortion rights. JAMA and AMA are not listening to all physicians nationwide.
Check out this article I published on the topic a dozen years ago: https://www.najms.com/index.php/najms/article/view/194/0
A big problem is that the diagnosis of autism has been applied to a number of neurological disorders that may or may not be related to one another. It may be that this has contributed to the increasing numbers over the last few decades. Data sets are only useful when the data is accurate. AI cannot deal with matters requiring judgement or nuance, but it can mislead people into fruitless blind alleys of research such as we have seen in the "preventive" measures recommended for cardiovascular disease.
I was going to write something very similar to Mxtyplk.
JAMA is a medical publication. Autistic individuals are treated with antipsychotics (psychiatrist), and differing therapies such as Anger management, Family therapy, Applied behavior analysis, Behavior therapy, Animal-Assisted therapy. These fall under psychology, counseling, and developmental disciplines so would not be published in JAMA. I should add some research is done in labs, researching the strong genetic tie to autism.
The problem is that autism is not a medical condition, it’s a medicalization of problem behavior and in general of the situation of being a “weird” kid. You cannot just throw a ton of data at the situation and get a real understanding of it when the underlying conceptual and diagnostic categories are so confused.
Perhaps the range of qualifying symptoms is overly broad, but a child who is non-verbal and easily overwhelmed by ordinary stimuli beyond the age of toddlerhood is not just a "weird kid."
The number of autistic kids who are nonverbal and clearly disabled is now just a small fraction of the total diagnosed though
Great!