Er, not that I want to be seen as an advocate for Kirby’s argument, but the figures he’s quoting are rates per 10,000 children, so any change in birthrate is irrelevant.

Also, I’m under the impression that the US has a relatively stable replacement rate of 2.1 (vs. an E.U. rate of 1.47) (source).

Having said that, I’m not suggesting that Kirby’s statements (let alone any implications in his post) are correct, but merely that he didn’t fall at the first gate mentioned above.

Don’t worry about your incomplete knowledge.

If this clown Kirby had any, he might have checked the collapsing US birthrate figures.

I remember this being mooted in about 1998-9, when I was still an undergraduate at Leeds… my social and health psychology tutor alerted me to this issue.

We found it somewhat scary.

Kirby for the Defense!

It is a great title, would make an excellent book, and the movie could star someone like Tom Cruise, with a little couch jumping!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7013251

Scroll down to the interview with Dr. Buxbaum.

(I wrote about this in my comment to the IACC and asked them to reallocate the funding to the development of educational programs and community services.)

Or, “How I got paid for taking revenge on the CDC, and had fun mocking the parents of autistics at the same time.” No, that one’s too cumbersome.

“Look at me! I’m a plume!” might work…