FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells Scripps News 'I don't think autism is genetic'

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31. But recognition and diagnosis have changed drastically over the years.

Autism as a medical term was only introduced in 1911. And the recognition that there is a 'spectrum' of related conditions is much more recent.

It's a classic case of "there weren't as many cases reported in the past because they weren't recognized in the past". True of many phenomena, and not just in medicine.

The number of people who died of COVID-19 initially was heavily under-reported because not every case was autopsied, so an ultimate (as opposed to proximate) Cause of Death was not established. It wasn't worth the risk of exposure to a highly contagious and fairly lethal disease for the Medical Examiners to be examining the bodies of people who obviously had COVID, but it meant they couldn't sign off on COVID as the established cause.

Deaths due to heatstroke are largely under-reported because the forensic evidence for heatstroke is far from unique, and hard to distinguish from other causes. The living patient may have suffered from heatstroke in an obvious way and under obvious circumstances as confirmed by multiple witnesses, but chances are that won't be reported as the COD, particularly if the patient was already in ill health otherwise.

This is such a well-established, known defect in the study of diseases that no "expert" has any right to be unaware of it -- but RFKJ appointed him anyway.