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Sacramento County Schools “See” The Invisible Epidemic

Monday, September 5th, 2011

At the end of this past week, California’s Sacramento Bee reports that “Autism rates quadruple in local schools over last decade“. The article, written by Phillip Reese, seems largely unremarkable. Even though headline is suggestive, there are no claims of “autism epidemic” that follow. In fact, Reese points out that: Whether autism is actually more [...]

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Ageing in autism

Friday, May 6th, 2011

A new paper highlights the issue with geriatric populations in autism. At present, one of the major challenges is that the majority of the currently older individuals with ASD has not received a formal diagnosis of ASD, and this would be dif?cult to establish using the currently recommended diagnostic assessments, because for many of them, [...]

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UK Research places huge question mark over the autism ‘epidemic’

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Just a quick couple of quotes as I’m in a rush. Researchers found nearly one percent of Britons older than 16 years have autism, a rate that is similar to that seen in children. Younger people were no more likely to be affected than older ones, however, which would have been expected if the condition [...]

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93% of US parents trust vaccinations

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

“Celebrities have no expertise in childhood immunizations or infectious disease,” Freed said. “There is a danger in the media of putting up celebrities as experts on any topic for which they have an opinion, and giving them a platform to share their opinions that is presented as equal to true experts.” In the first survey, [...]

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