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Autism: Unravelling An Epidemic

Autism: Unravelling An Epidemic →

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 1% of children across the country have some form of autism — 20 times the prevailing figure in the 1980s. The increase has stirred fears of an epidemic and mobilized researchers to figure out what causes the brain disorder and why it appears to be affecting so many more children. Two decades into the boom, however, the balance of evidence suggests that it is more a surge in diagnosis than in disease.

via Instapundit

There's a lot of quotable stuff in this article. Do, please, read the whole thing. I do think that a lot of the increase in "autism" is really an increase of paranoid parents not of disabled children.

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