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Title: Study Turns up 10 Autism Clusters in California
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URL Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wirestory?id=9492635&page=1
Published: Jan 6, 2010
Author: Julie Steenhuysen
Post Date: 2010-01-06 15:57:07 by Prefrontal Vortex
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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have identified 10 locations in California that have double the rates of autism found in surrounding areas, and these clusters were located in neighborhoods with high concentrations of white, highly educated parents. Researchers at the University of California Davis had hoped to uncover pockets of autism that might reveal clues about triggers in the environment that could explain rising rates of autism, which affects as many as one in 110 U.S. children. But the findings likely say more about the U.S. healthcare system than the causes of autism, said researcher Irva Hertz-Picciotto of UC Davis' MIND Institute, whose study will be released online on Wednesday in the journal Autism Research. Advocacy groups have been clamoring for treatment options and for better research to show what might be causing an apparent increase in autism cases. Hertz-Picciotto and colleagues used a research technique that has been effective at identifying cancer clusters. "This kind of analysis sometimes turns up clues about environmental factors," she said in a telephone interview. The researchers looked at about 2.5 million births recorded in California from 1996 through 2000. About 10,000 of those children were later diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, according to the state's department of developmental services. Using data from birth records, the team found a strong link between parental education and the high rates of autism."In this particular case, we found 10 clusters of autism across the state of California. When we looked further, we discovered virtually all of them were areas where there was a higher level of education among the parents who were giving birth in those years," Hertz-Picciotto said. "We already know that people with a higher education in the United States are more likely to get a diagnosis of autism for their child. It doesn't necessarily mean that autism occurs more frequently in those families," she said. "It was also a greater likelihood to be white, non-Hispanic, and for the parents to be a little bit older." ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE Hertz-Picciotto said studies in Denmark, which offers universal access to healthcare, have found no link between autism and race or socioeconomic status. "In this country, we have a lot of people who are uninsured. They may not have someone to go to if they have suspicions about their child," she said. She said some communities with lower education levels and fewer resources may have higher rates of undiagnosed autism. But the study did offer new clues about autism. "What it tells us is if we want to go looking for environmental factors, they are not going to be these focused fixed points of contamination, for example," she said. "It is probably going to be something much more widespread -- common sorts of exposures that are more across the board." Hertz-Picciotto said her team is now undertaking two different kinds of studies to look for environmental causes of autism, a spectrum of diseases ranging from severe and profound inability to communicate and mental retardation to relatively mild symptoms called Asperger's syndrome. In one, her team plans to collect dust samples from the homes of 1,300 families with autistic children to look for common chemicals, such as flame retardants, that might be playing a role. In another, the researchers are following pregnant women who have already given birth to a child with autism, to see if there are any common exposures that might be a factor in developing autism.
Study Turns up 10 Autism Clusters in California
January 6, 2010
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#1. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
Hmmm. I bet being so "highly educated", those parents brought their kids to the doc for their batteries of shots at the earliest possible time in order to be "fully protected".
Someone tell these people to check the vaccination records of these children.
00:00:20 too late.
But the findings likely say more about the U.S. healthcare system than the causes of autism, said researcher Irva Hertz-Picciotto of UC Davis' MIND Institute, whose study will be released online on Wednesday in the journal Autism Research. The group most likely to be seeing multiple M.D.'s - including a Pediatrician who would brainwash them into getting premature vaccinations.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
We're on the same wavelength again.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Looks like we're ALL on the same wavelength. Too bad the "researchers" can't find the wavelength we so easily picked up...
Gillberg et al. (1987): "Urban children with autism more often than age-matched children in the general population had immigrant parents from 'exotic' countries." Gillberg et al. (1995): "The prevalence for autistic disorder in Göteborg children born to mothers who were born in Uganda was 15% which is almost 200 times higher than in the general population of children." Gillberg & Gillberg (1996): "Fifteen of these children (27%) were born to parents, at least one of whom had migrated to Sweden." Bernard-Opitz et al. (2001): "Discussion focuses on possible risk factors and psychosocial adversities for autism such as a high frequency of caregivers who are foreign maids, the use of multiple languages and the high level of punitive educational practices." Lauritsen et al. (2005): "An increased relative risk of 1.4 was found if the mother was born outside Europe, and in children of parents who were born in different countries." Maimburg and Vaeth (2006): "The risk of infantile autism was increased for mothers aged >35 years, with foreign citizenship, and mothers who used medicine during pregnancy." Kolevzon et al. (2007): "The parental characteristics associated with an increased risk of autism and autism spectrum disorders included advanced maternal age, advanced paternal age, and maternal place of birth outside Europe or North America." The rise in autism has occurred at the same time as the rise in immigration. Temporally it's hard to distinguish them. Geographically, the correlation of autism with diversity per se is stronger than the correlation with vaccination. A couple of speculative mechanisms: 1) Maternal environmental stress from diversity per se. 2) Correlation between genetic risk factors for autism and willingness to immigrate or tolerate immigration.
Cultural conservatism is the path of least resistance.
Look up Thimerosal, vaccine adjuncts, and Gullian-Barre Syndrome. The biological material they put in vaccines is the least harmful thing in them, the additives and preservatives ARE toxic and harmful, it's just that MOST babies and infants can eliminate the toxins quickly enough to avoid the most serious injury, yet are PROBABLY brain damaged in SOME form ANYWAYS. Perhaps that's why the level of intelligence has been steadily decreasing over the past decades, along with the INCREASE in the prevalence of ADD/ADHD, Autism, emotional and mental disorders, and various neurological disorders.
Well, all but one so far...
Can't do that. Their funding would be pulled if they did that. Big Pharma and their Flunkies at the FDA would not like that at all.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
True, sadly, but realistically, they will NEVER "find" a cure or a cause, because if they did, then it would not only eliminate autism, but ADD/ADHD, depression, and various other disorders where MANY different groups of people rake in BILLIONS of dollars each and every year to "treat" or "research". Look at all the "counselors", "child psychologists", and psychiatrists who earn a vast portion of their paycheck from kids damaged by these poisons injected into them. Look at all of the money made on Ritalin, Prozac, and the host of other ineffective yet dangerous chemical cocktails being passed off as "effective treatements". MANY billions of dollars are at stake, there's no way in hell they can let their cash cow dry up overnight, or EVER for that matter.
True, sadly, but realistically, they will NEVER "find" a cure or a cause, because if they did, then it would not only eliminate autism, but ADD/ADHD, depression, and various other disorders where MANY different groups of people rake in BILLIONS of dollars each and every year to "treat" or "research". Look at all the "counselors", "child psychologists", and psychiatrists who earn a vast portion of their paycheck from kids damaged by these poisons injected into them. Look at all of the money made on Ritalin, Prozac, and the host of other ineffective yet dangerous chemical cocktails being passed off as "effective treatements". MANY billions of dollars are at stake, there's no way in hell they can let their cash cow dry up overnight, or EVER for that matter. Well it's just good business. After all if they cured people then where would the future income stream go? And there's no money in "normal". /Sarcasm
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Ever since I've arrived at that conclusion myself I haven't trusted doctors, at least in terms of "miracle drugs", and ESPECIALLY in terms of "vaccines".
That is why the push on the Hellthcare Deform Bill. Americans are increasingly turning to alternatives to the AMA/Big Pharma Money Machine as they are recognizing that they are NOT in the business of curing people. They are largely, with some exceptions, money driven and who gives a damn about the patient as long as they pay. I suspect that is one of the reasons they took away the tax deduction for Doctors who do pro bono work. Up until the late 60's/early 70's Doctors received a 100% write-off on the value of pro-bono work. With that gone they were put in a bind because the new ruling only allowed them a small percentage of the donated time and money. They have been working on this for a couple of generations and, I suspect, judged the time was right to now ram it through. The next step is to begin enforcing the Codex Alimentarius and make Vitamins Prescription Only and to outlaw alternative treatments such as Naturopathy, Homeopathy, and Chiropractic. All which have a track record equal to or better than the Big Pharma/AMA Approved® Medicos.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
And I'm sure yearly "flu vaccines" and other such crap will be mandatory, else you'd lose your healthcare for that year or something to that effect. And each time you'd go for a "preventative checkup" they'd find a reason to prescribe dibillitating drugs such as Lipitor or other such junk, with the same penalties for not adhering to the "doctor's orders". Perhaps mandatory psychological testing as well, like Bush wanted to pass back when he was in office. Take your Prozac or we won't treat your kid's broken leg.
I'm familiar with the triad.
Cultural conservatism is the path of least resistance.
And I'm sure yearly "flu vaccines" and other such crap will be mandatory, else you'd lose your healthcare for that year or something to that effect. And each time you'd go for a "preventative checkup" they'd find a reason to prescribe dibillitating drugs such as Lipitor or other such junk, with the same penalties for not adhering to the "doctor's orders". Perhaps mandatory psychological testing as well, like Bush wanted to pass back when he was in office. Take your Prozac or we won't treat your kid's broken leg. Yup, you've got it figured. This way under the guise of healthcare they can begin reducing the population in ever larger numbers. Those groups most likely to resist - the educated, patriots, free thinkers, etc., will be the most heavily targeted as they represent the people most likely to eventually see through the entire PsyOp and begin resisting. Of course groups such as Blacks have been targeted since at least the Twenties. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Infanticide and beloved of the elites, regarded blacks as "garbage population". The original stated purpose of Planned Parenthood was to discourage reproduction among targeted groups. We're in a hell of a fix. The only good thing I see is that people are waking up fast enough now that the elites are having to rush things and that creates lots of opportunities to bring them down.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Baron-Cohen’s evidence is called “ecological correlation”. As another poster to the Slashdot article pointed out , ecological correlations are subject to the “ecological fallacy”. However, ecological correlations are a good way to do preliminary investigations into unknown sources of new pathologies. As anyone who has had to dignose a complex system knows, you start by gathering gross phenomenology about the system which is rather inexpensive, and then start teasing apart the various potential confounding variables as you find promising (but possibly deceptive) lines of research validated by the preliminary data. We’re at such a primitive state of understanding of the phenomenon of autism that there is intense disagreement as to whether there has actually been an explosive epidemic in autism over the last 20 years or whether there is simply an explosion in the number of social workers who are prone to make the diagnosis given the same kinds of problems they’ve always faced. Without getting into the nuances of this debate we can simply say this: If we behave as though there is a real explosion in the number of cases, we are acting wisely since the cost of being wrong is far less than is the cost of being wrong about there being no explosive epidemic. Having said that, we have the first reason to discount Baron-Cohen’s research: Baron-Cohen provides no data to back up the plausible sounding argument for why there might have been increased assortive mating among “nerds”. Byrna Siegel makes the same argument. There are just as plausible arguments that assortive mating among “nerds” has decreased over the same time period—not the least of which is the simple fact that nerds are working in male saturated environments where availability of mates is low, the cost of living is high and job stability is low. In other words, nerds are reproducing at a much lower aggregate rate than they used to, when they were living in more scattered, more gender balanced, more affordable and more inbred rural towns. The second reason to discount Baron-Cohen’s research is that he doesn’t use the technique of “strong inference” which you really have to do when you’re dealing with such a tenuously supported preliminary investigation. Strong inference means taking at least 2, preferably more, hypotheses and subjecting them to similar tests to see which of them wins in a rational comparison. There are lots of suspected ecological correlations out there—mercury to autism, vaccination to autism, etc. and he doesn’t compare the degree of his ecological correlation to the degree of these other ecological correlations. Note that what I’m not saying here that the ecological fallacy isn’t in play here, nor am I saying that there might be better data supporting or refuting a given hypothesis (say, statistical case studies of individuals). What I am saying is that if you’re going to use strong inference you need to apply similar tests to the different hypotheses and see which of them comes out on top so you can prioritize your subsequent research rationally. The third reason to discount Baron-Cohen’s research is that he doesn’t even provide hard numbers for the nerd-autism ecological correlation (this is giving him the benefit of the doubt that nerds aren’t having their effective fertility destroyed by other ecological factors). So what would happen if you tried to do a real, strong inference ecological study of autism comparing the various hypotheses against each to see which has the strongest ecological correlation? You’d come to the conclusion that the place to look for the cause of autism’s explosive increase over the last 20 years is in areas of high Finnish ancestry where something is imported along with Indian immigrants—quite probably along with lower caste immigrants working in Indian restaurants. This is because a) there is a plausible argument that autism involves an intestinal pathology that may well be transmissible b) that something has been increasing exponentially to cause an exponential growth of autism and immigration from India fills that bill, c) that only a small portion of the population is susceptible to this pathology over a small portion of their early childhood and d) people with Finnish ancestry are disproportionately represented in many of the areas where Indians have arrived recently and e) if you look at thousands of two-variable combinations of ecological variables aggregated at the State level, the one with the highest correlation coefficient with the Department of Education’s State-by-State autism rate in the year 2000 is Finnish Americans per capita times immigrants from India per capita, Pearson correlation coefficient, r=.60 with a probability of it being due to chance, p less than .001. Baron-Cohen’s Assortive Mating vs Bowery’s Indian Immigration Hypothesis of Autism ...and we all know why it just can't -- can't! -- be non-white immigration.
Cultural conservatism is the path of least resistance.
Frankly I don't think this statistic is the real "incidence" of autism but merely of its "recognition". It may well be that, among the poor, autism in children is really as common but it is not recognized -- because the parents (or frequent the lone parent) are so overworked, with so little time to spend with the child, they don't have the opportunity to observe that the kid is behaving oddly. Also, quite bluntly, people might simply have lower expectations for the children of poverty -- either from race or economic status -- so if a child that is both poor and black (or brown) seems less verbal, less responsive, it's accepted as being what little expected of poor & non-white children. There have been countless suggestions for what causes autism and most of them (including the one about vaccinations) have been exploded. One theory that almost made sense was a sort of pre-natal or neo-natal stroke that damages some receptor in the kid's brain; this is, I think, pure theory without any evidence either way. But brain scans do show that autistic brains behave differently.
The info you posted is well and fine, but all it does is show that genetics are involved in WHO will be most affected by this sort of heavy metal poisoning. Some people are geneticaly predisposed to not be able to metabolise heavy metals as well as most other people. Hence, they don't detoxify the mercury and other contaminants in the vaccines, giving those toxins the opportunity to damage neurons in the brain. I know of one HUGE California cluster located in Fresno.
LOL, and here's their mommy Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
OMG, CaLoL..... The most vile neocon ever to grace LP. I remember the day Goldi invited that hairball over to pimp for Iraq. That war sure went well.....
Using data from birth records, the team found a strong link between parental education and the high rates of autism."In this particular case, we found 10 clusters of autism across the state of California. When we looked further, we discovered virtually all of them were areas where there was a higher level of education among the parents who were giving birth in those years," Hertz-Picciotto said.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#2. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
#3. To: All (#2)
Damn.
#4. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
Researchers at the University of California Davis had hoped to uncover pockets of autism that might reveal clues about triggers in the environment that could explain rising rates of autism, which affects as many as one in 110 U.S. children.
#5. To: FormerLurker (#1)
#6. To: Lod, Original_Intent (#3)
00:00:20 too late.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#7. To: Lod (#2)
Harper & Williams (1976): "In a survey on the occurrence of infantile autism in New South Wales it was found that 21-9% of children had at least one foreign-born parent whose native language was not English."
#8. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#7)
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#9. To: Lod, Original_Intent, Prefrontal Vortex (#6)
Looks like we're ALL on the same wavelength.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#10. To: FormerLurker, Lod (#6)
Looks like we're ALL on the same wavelength. Too bad the "researchers" can't find the wavelength we so easily picked up...
#11. To: Original_Intent (#10)
Can't do that. Their funding would be pulled if they did that. Big Pharma and their Flunkies at the FDA would not like that at all.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#12. To: FormerLurker (#11)
Can't do that. Their funding would be pulled if they did that. Big Pharma and their Flunkies at the FDA would not like that at all.
#13. To: Original_Intent (#12)
Well it's just good business. After all if they cured people then where would the future income stream go? And there's no money in "normal".
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#14. To: FormerLurker (#13)
Ever since I've arrived at that conclusion myself I haven't trusted doctors, at least in terms of "miracle drugs", and ESPECIALLY in terms of "vaccines".
#15. To: Original_Intent (#14)
The next step is to begin enforcing the Codex Alimentarius and make Vitamins Prescription Only and to outlaw alternative treatments such as Naturopathy, Homeopathy, and Chiropractic. All which have a track record equal to or better than the Big Pharma/AMA Approved® Medicos.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#16. To: FormerLurker (#8)
Look up Thimerosal, vaccine adjuncts, and Gullian-Barre Syndrome.
#17. To: FormerLurker (#15)
The next step is to begin enforcing the Codex Alimentarius and make Vitamins Prescription Only and to outlaw alternative treatments such as Naturopathy, Homeopathy, and Chiropractic. All which have a track record equal to or better than the Big Pharma/AMA Approved® Medicos.
#18. To: FormerLurker (#9)
Well, all but one so far...
#19. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
#20. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#18)
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#21. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
#22. To: Jethro Tull (#21)
I know of one HUGE California cluster located in Fresno.
The Mother of all retards
#23. To: Flintlock (#22)
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