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July 31, 2016
Forgetting something? Personal attacks fail to actually address the content of posts #1 and #34.
Sidestepping this data will become increasingly impossible. Research this objectively.
According to the CA Department of Education website, 1 in 9 children in public school required special education in 2014-2015, autism rates in California public schools jumped 7% in 2016 and the increase was especially sharp among kindergartners, where autism cases grew by 17% last year.
July 31, 2016
eg. http://www.biotech-info.net/exposed.html (gone)
eg. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-09-03/news/0009030374_1_genetically-modified-new-proteins
OFF TOPIC, but if links become "dead" retroactively, that cannot be controlled. Look elsewhere.
eg. http://www.najms.net/wp-content/uploads/v06i03.pdf#page=34 (gone)
eg. http://app.autism360.org/MumperPrevention.pdf
or http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HbhpeUn03nsJ:www.najms.net/wp-content/uploads/v06i03p134.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
eg. http://www.biotech-info.net/exposed.html (gone)
eg. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-09-03/news/0009030374_1_genetically-modified-new-proteins
July 26, 2016
2009: UC Davis MIND Institute study shows CA's autism increase not due to better counting, diagosis.
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/welcome/features/20090218_autism_environment/
UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute study shows California's autism increase not due to better counting, diagnosis
A study by researchers at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute has found that the seven- to eight-fold increase in the number children born in California with autism since 1990 cannot be explained by either changes in how the condition is diagnosed or counted — and the trend shows no sign of abating.
Published in the January 2009 issue of the journal Epidemiology, results from the study also suggest that research should shift from genetics to the host of chemicals and infectious microbes in the environment that are likely at the root of changes in the neurodevelopment of California’s children.
“It’s time to start looking for the environmental culprits responsible for the remarkable increase in the rate of autism in California,” said UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute researcher Irva Hertz-Picciotto, a professor of environmental and occupational health and epidemiology and an internationally respected autism researcher.
Rise in autism
Hertz-Picciotto said that many researchers, state officials and advocacy organizations have viewed the rise in autism's incidence in California with skepticism.
The incidence of autism by age six in California has increased from fewer than nine in 10,000 for children born in 1990 to more than 44 in 10,000 for children born in 2000. Some have argued that this change could have been due to migration into California of families with autistic children, inclusion of children with milder forms of autism in the counting and earlier ages of diagnosis as consequences of improved surveillance or greater awareness.
Hertz-Picciotto and her co-author, Lora Delwiche of the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, initiated the study to address these beliefs, analyzing data collected by the state of California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) from 1990 to 2006, as well as the United States Census Bureau and state of California Department of Public Health Office of Vital Records, which compiles and maintains birth statistics.
Hertz-Picciotto and Delwiche correlated the number of cases of autism reported between 1990 and 2006 with birth records and excluded children not born in California. They used Census Bureau data to calculate the rate of incidence in the population over time and examined the age at diagnosis of all children ages two to 10 years old.
The methodology eliminated migration as a potential cause of the increase in the number of autism cases. It also revealed that no more than 56 percent of the estimated 600-to-700 percent increase, that is, less than one-tenth of the increased number of reported autism cases, could be attributed to the inclusion of milder cases of autism. Only 24 percent of the increase could be attributed to earlier age at diagnosis.
“These are fairly small percentages compared to the size of the increase that we’ve seen in the state,” Hertz-Picciotto said.
Hertz-Picciotto said that the study is a clarion call to researchers and policy makers who have focused attention and money on understanding the genetic components of autism. She said that the rise in cases of autism in California cannot be attributed to the state’s increasingly diverse population because the disorder affects ethnic groups at fairly similar rates.
“Right now, about 10 to 20 times more research dollars are spent on studies of the genetic causes of autism than on environmental ones. We need to even out the funding,” Hertz-Picciotto said.
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UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute study shows California's autism increase not due to better counting, diagnosis
A study by researchers at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute has found that the seven- to eight-fold increase in the number children born in California with autism since 1990 cannot be explained by either changes in how the condition is diagnosed or counted — and the trend shows no sign of abating.
Published in the January 2009 issue of the journal Epidemiology, results from the study also suggest that research should shift from genetics to the host of chemicals and infectious microbes in the environment that are likely at the root of changes in the neurodevelopment of California’s children.
“It’s time to start looking for the environmental culprits responsible for the remarkable increase in the rate of autism in California,” said UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute researcher Irva Hertz-Picciotto, a professor of environmental and occupational health and epidemiology and an internationally respected autism researcher.
Rise in autism
Hertz-Picciotto said that many researchers, state officials and advocacy organizations have viewed the rise in autism's incidence in California with skepticism.
The incidence of autism by age six in California has increased from fewer than nine in 10,000 for children born in 1990 to more than 44 in 10,000 for children born in 2000. Some have argued that this change could have been due to migration into California of families with autistic children, inclusion of children with milder forms of autism in the counting and earlier ages of diagnosis as consequences of improved surveillance or greater awareness.
Hertz-Picciotto and her co-author, Lora Delwiche of the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, initiated the study to address these beliefs, analyzing data collected by the state of California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) from 1990 to 2006, as well as the United States Census Bureau and state of California Department of Public Health Office of Vital Records, which compiles and maintains birth statistics.
Hertz-Picciotto and Delwiche correlated the number of cases of autism reported between 1990 and 2006 with birth records and excluded children not born in California. They used Census Bureau data to calculate the rate of incidence in the population over time and examined the age at diagnosis of all children ages two to 10 years old.
The methodology eliminated migration as a potential cause of the increase in the number of autism cases. It also revealed that no more than 56 percent of the estimated 600-to-700 percent increase, that is, less than one-tenth of the increased number of reported autism cases, could be attributed to the inclusion of milder cases of autism. Only 24 percent of the increase could be attributed to earlier age at diagnosis.
“These are fairly small percentages compared to the size of the increase that we’ve seen in the state,” Hertz-Picciotto said.
Hertz-Picciotto said that the study is a clarion call to researchers and policy makers who have focused attention and money on understanding the genetic components of autism. She said that the rise in cases of autism in California cannot be attributed to the state’s increasingly diverse population because the disorder affects ethnic groups at fairly similar rates.
“Right now, about 10 to 20 times more research dollars are spent on studies of the genetic causes of autism than on environmental ones. We need to even out the funding,” Hertz-Picciotto said.
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July 25, 2016
http://www.johnrobison.com/
http://jerobison.blogspot.com/
He even posts occasionally on the site where she is Managing Editor.
I'm sorry to hear that. Do you know that John Elder Robison and Kim Stagliano are friends, actually?
http://jerobison.blogspot.com/search?q=kim+staglianohttp://www.johnrobison.com/
http://jerobison.blogspot.com/
He even posts occasionally on the site where she is Managing Editor.
July 25, 2016
China Slaps Ban on Internet News Reporting as Crackdown Tightens
Source: Bloomberg News
July 24, 2016 — 9:25 PM PDT
China’s top internet regulator ordered major online companies including Sina Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to stop original news reporting, the latest effort by the government to tighten its grip over the country’s web and information industries.
The Cyberspace Administration of China imposed the ban on several major news portals, including Sohu.com Inc. and NetEase Inc., Chinese media reported in identically worded articles citing an unidentified official from the agency’s Beijing office. The companies have “seriously violated” internet regulations by carrying plenty of news content obtained through original reporting, causing “huge negative effects,” according to a report that appeared in The Paper on Sunday.
The agency instructed the operators of mobile and online news services to dismantle “current-affairs news” operations on Friday, after earlier calling a halt to such activity at Tencent, according to people familiar with the situation. Like its peers, Asia’s largest internet company had developed a news operation and grown its team. Henceforth, they and other services can only carry reports provided by government-controlled print or online media, the people said, asking not to be identified because the issue is politically sensitive.
The sweeping ban gives authorities near-absolute control over online news and political discourse, in keeping with a broader crackdown on information increasingly distributed over the web and mobile devices. President Xi Jinping has stressed that Chinese media must serve the interests of the ruling Communist Party.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-25/china-slaps-ban-on-internet-news-reporting-as-crackdown-tightens
July 23, 2016
LA Times coverage of the story:
Story or nonstory? SacBee: "Autism rates in California public schools jumped 7 percent in 2016"
Original reporting, SAC BEE, July 18:SAC BEE, July 18, "Autism rates in California public schools jumped 7 percent in 2016"[/center]
[center]"The increase was especially sharp among kindergartners, where autism cases grew by 17% last year."[/center]
LA Times coverage of the story:
http://www.latimes.com/newsletters/la-me-essential-california-20160719-snap-story.htmlESSENTIAL CALIFORNIA
By Alice Walton and Shelby Grad
Good morning. It is Tuesday, July 19. Police descended on a San Mateo neighborhood after receiving reports of a mountain lion in the area. Residents were told to shelter in place, but it was all for naught. The ferocious puma turned out to be a regular house cat. Here's what else is happening in the Golden State:
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More cases: The number of children with autism in California’s public school systems has increased sevenfold since 2001. That’s about 97,000 students. Officials say the jump can be attributed to better screenings, a broader definition of the autism spectrum and more children being born with the condition. Sacramento Bee
SPOTLIGHT: Appropriate reporting or a failure of journalism? Scroll down, scroll way, way, way, way down.
MORE: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028030727
July 21, 2016
...in your efforts to defend the 2016 status quo.
I'm with THEM, basically, among many others I could name and you could continue to attempt to mock..
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2016/03/17/peds.2015-4230...in your efforts to defend the 2016 status quo.
July 21, 2016
Whistleblowers, all.
Here's the full text of the link you ignored. NOTE: Marc Edwards wrote intro for David Lewis' book.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141392809#post38
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 06:04 PM
Do some more reading. Developing...
Here's a book by David Lewis you ought to read: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-for-sale-david-l-lewis-phd/1117301377
Start with the B&N Overview.
Guess what? The book's intro was written by the hero of the Flint water crisis (Marc Edwards):
Sadly, Edwards fought the CDC for years, too. It's shocking to read.
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 06:04 PM
Do some more reading. Developing...
Here's a book by David Lewis you ought to read: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-for-sale-david-l-lewis-phd/1117301377
Start with the B&N Overview.
Guess what? The book's intro was written by the hero of the Flint water crisis (Marc Edwards):
1) http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/03/professor-who-exposed-flint-crisis-says-greed-has-killed-public-science
2) http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/flint-and-the-long-struggle-against-lead-poisoning
3) http://chronicle.com/article/The-Water-Next-Time-Professor/235136
4) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/04/AR2010120400223.html
Sadly, Edwards fought the CDC for years, too. It's shocking to read.
Whistleblowers, all.
July 20, 2016
REPOST: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1127100665#post32
RELATED: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016142780
Unconcerned? Seattle Children's Hospital: About 5% of children younger than 5 yrs old have epilepsy.
Another worrisome statistic posted at the Seattle Children's Hospital website:
http://www.seattlechildrens.org/medical-conditions/brain-nervous-system-mental-conditions/epilepsy/
Epilepsy in Children
Epilepsy happens more in children than it does in adults. It affects about 1% of the general population - one out of every 100 people. About 5% of children younger than 5 years old have epilepsy. That is about one in every 20 children under 5.
This number does not include children who have seizures caused by a high fever. These kinds of seizures are different from epilepsy. They are called febrile seizures. They either happen only once or only when your child has a fever.
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REPOST: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1127100665#post32
RELATED: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016142780
July 20, 2016
Link from post by: Greg | July 20, 2016 at 11:50 AM
LINK: "Special Education - CalEdFacts" from CA Dept of Education website
http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/sr/cefspeced.asp
The disability categories and enrollment breakdown in California for individuals (newborn through twenty-two years of age) who received special education services in 2014–15 are as follows:
In total over 717,000 California kids were in special education programs in public schools. There were over 6,235,000 kids in public schools, translating to 1 in 9 who were in special ed programs.
The disability categories and enrollment breakdown in California for individuals (newborn through twenty-two years of age) who received special education services in 2014–15 are as follows:
Intellectual disabilities: 43,750
Speech or language impairment: 160,071
Visual impairment: 3,864
Emotional disturbance: 24,214
Orthopedic impairment: 12,293
Other health impairment: 76,122
Specific learning disability: 284,196
Deafness: 3,531
Hard of hearing: 10,325
Deaf-blindness: 116
Multiple disabilities: 6,435
Autism: 90,794
Traumatic brain injury: 1,744
In total over 717,000 California kids were in special education programs in public schools. There were over 6,235,000 kids in public schools, translating to 1 in 9 who were in special ed programs.
Link from post by: Greg | July 20, 2016 at 11:50 AM
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