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You are sick to believe that trying to figure out why the increase in autism is a silly thing to study. You only feel that way because of politics which makes you sick also.
We were talking about the increased rate of diagnosis. This is a scientific/medical issue and the underlying cause for the increase is well understood. It has nothing to do with politics. It is about facts. Knock it off with the "sickness" stuff, now.
Up until nearly the mid 90s for the most part only level 3 autism was diagnosed as autism. Level 1 kids were diagnosed as having behavioral problems, hyperactive, educationally handicapped etc. These days however I personally think they've gone too far in the other direction and set the bar too low for what qualifies as autism.
No it isn't. I've been aware of the scientific response to this trope about "increased autism rates" for many years. Long before COVID happened.
Again, not true. At some point in the past I have gone over materials explaining how the diagnosis of ASD has changed over the years. I do not have that material at my fingertips as it is not something that impacts me personally, nor is it my field. I also don't spend my time debunking autism/vaccine conspiracies generally.
You can knock off the personal insults or I can press one of those special buttons under your posts. We both have choices to make. I have chosen restraint so far and only ask that you start to chose restraint. Argue the post/data/idea, not me.
This is exactly what I mean. What compassion do I lack? For the suckers who have fallen for the vaccine/autism conspiracies, or for those who propagate them. I have only disdain for the latter like Kennedy and Bigtree.
Autism causation is a scientific topic. My agenda is therefore based on science. I don't really care which political "side" has aligned with the scientifically wrong position. I will go after them regardless.
This is a very sad, and incorrect view of the world, and me. And I make one final plea for you to stop characterizing me or anyone else on "politics", particularly w/o evidence.
I find that hard to believe, because you think it's silly to even study autism.
Since you said mate, you should of known the studies on autism mostly started in Europe in the 60's and 70's. The first diagnosis happened in the 40's.
@sanderabeer was correct. I haven't said "don't study autism". What I did say was that the re-re-re-examination of the conspiratorial "vaccines caused increased autism" claim is a waste of time, money, and credibility. The non-connection between vaccines and autism have been conclusively demonstrated. Doing another study or report isn't going to find a connection unless they lie or manipulate data. Autism is a complex developmental disorder primarily from in utero development.
You can pretend you weren't referring the study of autism as being silly. But your words revealed your motive for even mentioning the study. Because you think it's silly. You wouldn't have mentioned it if you didn't.
I wasn't. I was clearly talking about pointless vaccine-autism studies.
Robert Kennedy is a major anti-science jerk who is destructive to public health. The only difference between a year ago when he was a "Democrat" and now when he is a "Republican" is that as Sec of HHS he is far more dangerous because he has actual power.
You keep adding words, now it's vaccine-autism.
My conversation is with him, don't need to quote anything I've already read it.
