…authoritative Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1987 and 1994
Authoritative ?
Have you seen the proliferation of identified disorders and sub-disorders in the latest addition ?
Shameful. I guess you have to label the dis-ease or the disorder before you can receive insurance payments for “treating” it.
The controversy over the preservative Thimerosal has been going on for years. Actually, despite this conclusion or that conclusion, its use in childhood vaccines would still be problematical
But quite a long time ago, it was removed from childhood vaccines, n’est-ce pas ?
The rise in autism (or the rise in its diagnosis, which isn’t the same thing) might be related to the medicalization of pregnancy, the (overuse) of sonograms, the huge rise in number of Caesareans performed (the birthday at the convenience of the doctor’s holiday plans) and so forth.
Have you seen the ever growing list of vaccines recommended (even required, under duress) for infants and very small children ? It has grown by leaps and bounds in recent decades.
If I were a parent of an infant today, I’d look long and hard at each vaccine recommended for injection into my small child’s body. Of course, I was working at a law firm when the Lederle lab vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) was found defective and turning some babies’ brains into “Swiss Cheese”.
So you might say, I’m not completely objective in these matters.
It looks like you’re reaching to criticize Senator McCain on this point. Maybe McCain is friendly with that “other” Senator who doggedly pursued the Thimerosal issue for years as one of his grandchildren was diagnosed as “autistic” and he was hell bent on getting to the bottom of it.
