“Autism also trails other mental health concerns, like anxiety with 3,682 JAMA publications, alzheimer’s with 1,540 JAMA publications, and alcohol with 7,514 JAMA publications—about 6.8x, 2.8x, and 13.8x the attention given to autism.”
Using annual incidence of autism in US as an index, the annual incidence of each condition you mention is even higher: anxiety 271x, Alzheimer 7x and alcohol 28x. (Data from ChatGPT)
So can it be reasonably argued that the actual disparity is there’s disproportionately more autism research than the others?
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"
Here's a question for you – If you took 15 different vaccines and put them in one injection, does this count as one dose or 15 doses?
I'd argue that each different active antigen component has its own immunogenic profile, safety profile, and efficacy profile. Combining these into "one dose" does not make these profiles go away, nor obviate our need to understand their individual safety components.
So MMR vaccine = 3 doses, one from measles, one from mumps, one from rubella.
Given this, you should be able to count up the CDC vaccine schedule and see that it is at least 72 doses.
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.
I disagree. When one states "problem behavior" I think a child whose parents are not enforcing rules and discipline in a consistent fashion. Children with autism are born with relationship difficulties and or language pathologies and that is a medical condition IMO.
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."
“Autism also trails other mental health concerns, like anxiety with 3,682 JAMA publications, alzheimer’s with 1,540 JAMA publications, and alcohol with 7,514 JAMA publications—about 6.8x, 2.8x, and 13.8x the attention given to autism.”
Using annual incidence of autism in US as an index, the annual incidence of each condition you mention is even higher: anxiety 271x, Alzheimer 7x and alcohol 28x. (Data from ChatGPT)
So can it be reasonably argued that the actual disparity is there’s disproportionately more autism research than the others?
My experience has been different.
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/
Please do not spread the fallacy of the “72+ doses.”
At two months of age the cdc recommends vaccinations for dtap, polio, hep b, hib, and pneumococcus.
This is not done by performing 5 separate doses of vaccine.
In my office I provide all of that immunity with 2 shots, thus reducing any preservative you’ve hinted at being problematic.
Here's a question for you – If you took 15 different vaccines and put them in one injection, does this count as one dose or 15 doses?
I'd argue that each different active antigen component has its own immunogenic profile, safety profile, and efficacy profile. Combining these into "one dose" does not make these profiles go away, nor obviate our need to understand their individual safety components.
So MMR vaccine = 3 doses, one from measles, one from mumps, one from rubella.
Given this, you should be able to count up the CDC vaccine schedule and see that it is at least 72 doses.
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.
I disagree. When one states "problem behavior" I think a child whose parents are not enforcing rules and discipline in a consistent fashion. Children with autism are born with relationship difficulties and or language pathologies and that is a medical condition IMO.
I think that is just a factually incorrect statement about many or even most kids diagnosed with autism today
Not sure what is factually incorrect statement.
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
How small a fraction -- do we know?
Great!