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U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

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Re: U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

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The criteria for diagnosing ASD today are vastly different from those that would’ve resulted in an autism diagnosis shortly after the abolishment of lobotomy, it is hardly surprising the rate keeps going up as you widen the net.

Re: U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

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The criteria for diagnosing ASD today are vastly different from those that would’ve resulted in an autism diagnosis shortly after the abolishment of lobotomy, it is hardly surprising the rate keeps going up as you widen the net.

This is a huge factor, in ASD and in mental/behavioral issues in general. Not saying it's a bad thing but it makes comparison over time to be apples to oranges.

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post #4

This is just another angle of placing people in camps. Combine this with the overzealous focus on transvestites and the so called "illegal aliens" you should see a pattern with where the Nazis began.

Even if you are a current supporter of this administration this all should give you a moment of pause really. Even if you think the current administration isn’t about this, and it’s fear mongering by the media to you, what if the next administration goes a step further than you like, and this is where the door was set open?

There is a reason the constitution was set up the way it was in the light of not having a King and not being unfairly treated.

Re: U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

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post #4

This is just another angle of placing people in camps. Combine this with the overzealous focus on transvestites and the so called "illegal aliens" you should see a pattern with where the Nazis began.

Don't forget the obsession with IQ, even if it died down recently.

Re: U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

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The criteria for diagnosing ASD today are vastly different from those that would’ve resulted in an autism diagnosis shortly after the abolishment of lobotomy, it is hardly surprising the rate keeps going up as you widen the net.

What's the link between ASD and lobotomies?

Re: U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

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The criteria for diagnosing ASD today are vastly different from those that would’ve resulted in an autism diagnosis shortly after the abolishment of lobotomy, it is hardly surprising the rate keeps going up as you widen the net.

What's the link between ASD and lobotomies?

Progress of understanding.

Re: U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

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This is just another angle of placing people in camps. Combine this with the overzealous focus on transvestites and the so called "illegal aliens" you should see a pattern with where the Nazis began.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia... "On August 18, 1939, the Reich Ministry of the Interior circulated a decree requiring all physicians, nurses, and midwives to report newborn infants and children under the age of three who showed signs of severe mental or physical disability." "Beginning in October 1939, public health authorities began to encourage parents of children with disabilities to admit their young children to one of a number of specially designated pediatric clinics throughout Germany and Austria. In reality, the clinics were children's killing wards. There, specially recruited medical staff murdered their young charges by lethal overdoses of medication or by starvation."
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