This spike in autism is the result of several decades of drugging the majority of young American males for the false conditions of ADD, then for ADHD.
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Nope, the spike in autism diagnoses is down to better knowledge of the condition. And that number is likely to rise, given that more girls are likely to be diagnosed given the research into how milder forms manifest in them.
ADD and ADHD are real conditions and not the same as autism.
Shite Devil needs to get his brain in gear.
At the risk of sounding conspirationist, I would give the benefit of the doubt to his hypothesis on the role of medication: we dose kids way too much, lately (mostly because parents do not understand or do not want to understand that kids need parenting, and not just a screen to raise them, which makes parents very eager to attribute their kids' behaviour to illnesses, real or imagined. The parmaceutical industry is not helping, by pushing its snake oil on a number of subjects.). Environmental factors may well have an impact on the spreading of autism, just like they have an impact on infant cancers.
Mass shootings, on the other hand, have been happening in the USA for decades if not centuries.
@ Man Called True
I said snake oil in reference to a number of medicines with no proven benefits compared to existing (usually cheaper) medicines or medicines with debilitating side effects which the firms tried to hide.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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