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The increase in prevalence can be tied to the increased vaccine schedule. When I was a child (37 years old) we only got a handful of vaccines in early childhood. The current schedule is 28 vaccinations by age 2. There is a pretty strong correlation here.
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You know that correlation does not equal causation right?
Smallpox is caused by the variola virus. This virus belongs to the family Poxviridae, which contains a number of other viruses including vaccinia virus, cow pox virus, and the monkeypox virus. Poxviruses cross-react serologically, meaning that antibodies against one virus will also bind to and can inactivate another poxvirus.
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." Hank Thoreau
And some circumstancial evidence isn't evidence at all, but made up by kooks.
Japan stopped the measles vaccine in 1993. It made absolutly no difference to their autism rates. They kept increasing at exactly the same rates as they had. There is an increase in autism diagnoses, but vaccines are about as cleared of that as its possible to be.
And some circumstancial evidence isn't evidence at all, but made up by kooks.
Japan stopped the measles vaccine in 1993. It made absolutly no difference to their autism rates. They kept increasing at exactly the same rates as they had. There is an increase in autism diagnoses, but vaccines are about as cleared of that as its possible to be.
Are you suggesting the possibility of infectious autism?
Are you suggesting the possibility of infectious autism?
No, infectious measles.
The increase in diagnosed autism rates can have many causes...better diagnosis, increased levels of pollutants in the environment, higher concentrations of food additives in the ecology, differences in diet, more coddled immune systems etc, etc, etc. Lots of theories.
What is about as sure as science can be is that vaccines have been eliminated as a potential cause.
The increase in diagnosed autism rates can have many causes...better diagnosis, increased levels of pollutants in the environment, higher concentrations of food additives in the ecology, differences in diet, more coddled immune systems etc, etc, etc. Lots of theories.
What is about as sure as science can be is that vaccines have been eliminated as a potential cause.
So . . people could be becoming dumber from a lot of different causes?
What you're seeing is a decrease in diagnosis of conditions like mental retardation and learning disabilities. That's coupled with a much greater awareness of autism symptoms and funding for treating them.
mental retardation was very scarce whrn I was young...way back...
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