On 6/20/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, does anyone know if the diagnosis of autism has fallen off by, say, 80% > over the last few years? I'd guess that, if that happened, someone would > have noticed.
I am wondering if Robert Kennedy Jr. engaged in a bit of overstating his case. Autism was defined before thimerosal was in use. The linking of children's vaccines to autism was widely rumored for years and dismissed as email based conspiracy theory. The main element of his story, the evidence of a CDC cover-up, looks pretty impressive. I have heard some people saying they thought locally that autism cases had plateaued or were even dropping in the last couple of years. They were attributing it to bad economic times for nerds. -- Gary Denton http://www.apollocon.org June 24-26 Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
