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Anti vaccine activists are angry about a new study…and they didn’t even...
This is a big piece of what the “vaccines-cause-autism” idea is built on. Really bad analyses. Another study shows up showing that vaccines don’t cause autism. People immediately jump to give talking...
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Yes, there are a lot more adult autistics than commonly thought. The real...
What if I told you that there are a lot more autistics born in the 1980’s than 1 in 10,000. And this isn’t me saying “it’s almost certainly true”. This is fact. I’d hope that one of your first...
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Here’s one part of Brian Hooker’s “reanalysis” that shows just how cynical...
When my kid was diagnosed autistic I started reading research papers (I am a Ph.D. researcher by profession) and the raw data. One thing that struck me immediately was the fact that minority children...
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Why autism at 2.5% isn’t surprising.
Let’s get one thing out right away–autism prevalence studies undercount. Not all autistics are diagnosed. That’s just a fact. Consider the recent CDC study. They look at school and medical records. In...
View ArticleOne line from the CDC Autism Prevalence report you will likely never see quoted
The CDC came out with an autism prevalence estimate a few days ago. There have been a number of news stories on the subject and the usual attempts by credulous websites to use this to claim that...
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Did autism prevalence increase by 20%? (answer: no)
The CDC came out with a new autism prevalence estimate yesterday. Their estimated autism prevalence is 1.68%. That’s up from the estimate from 2 years ago (1.46%), but lower than a different recent...
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Americans are still failing to identify and serve minority autistic children
The CDC recently published another autism prevalence study. It’s 23 pages long and has 26 authors, took 2 years to put together and no doubt cost millions of dollars. Out of that, the one fact from it...
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If you are using California data to claim an autism epidemic, you’re doing it...
If you’ve been reading about autism online, you have almost certainly read that autism “rates” are on the rise. But what if I told you that here in California intellectual disability has been dropping...
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U.S. announces 2% autism rate. Again. And it’s dependent on a change in the...
Last week a study was released showing an autism “rate” in the U.S. of about 2% (an estimated prevalence of 2.24% to be exact). Luckily one of the best science journalists out there focuses a lot of...
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New study on inflammatory bowel disease and autism: Prevalence of...
People with developmental disabilities often have additional medical issues at rates higher than the general population. For example, heart problems are more common in the Down Syndrome population and...
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Kaiser Permanente starts the Autism Family Biobank Study
Kaiser Permanente has a long history of autism research. They’ve performed a number of epidemiology studies, including many on environmental risk factors and also the recent study on The health status...
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IACC Presentation by Lisa Croen: Psychiatric and Medical Conditions Among...
The last meeting of the previous Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) was a workshop on under recognized co-occurring conditions in ASD. One of the speakers was Lisa Croen of Kaiser...
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IACC Co-occurring conditions workshop: Lewin Group presentation on...
Anjali Jain of the Lewin group presented on data they have collected from medical records about the prevalence of co-occurring conditions found in autistic children in the U.S.. This presentation was...
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Recent Autism Gastrointestinal research funded by NIH
There are many parent advocates asking for research into gastrointestinal disorders and autism. My own anecdotal observations have been that these same parent advocates are of the belief that no work...
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No, the autism prevalence in Denmark did not go down with the removal of...
There’s a story that goes around the vaccine/autism groups that, contrary to published reports, the autism rate in Denmark went down after thimerosal was removed from their vaccines. Of course, this is...
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Comment on “Potential Impact of DSM-5 Criteria on Autism Spectrum Disorder...
One of the big topics of discussion in the past few years was the roll out of the DSM-5. The new criteria for what defines autism. One could find those saying “this is designed to undiagnose autistics...
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Details about the potentially “recovered” autistic kids in the National...
I recently wrote about data from the National Surevey of Children’s Health. In specific, I explored the question of just how many of those kids were identified as autistic at some time in the past and...
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The Amish may not be a great population for a vaccinated/unvaccinated study
The recent attempt to legislate brought back the subject of the Amish, vaccination and autism. It’s an old idea, made popular by a journalist whose work was, shall we say, less than complete. House...
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A fishing expedition at Vaccine Court
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has a section devoted to adjudicating claims of vaccine injury. This is often referred to as the “Vaccine Court”. Individuals or their families can file a claim...
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Autism prevalence in Iceland 1.2%
Years back (2007 to be exact) an autistic blogger wrote a piece “Moving Toward a New Consensus Prevalence of 1% or Higher“. In the late 1990′s, studies had come out showing a prevalence of about 1% in...
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