“It’s basically why I said he’s almost right. I think 99% is a little high but there are many many kids who are being misdiagnosed. I think the term brat also was a bit harsh.”
Being “almost right” is like being “almost pregnant”. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Fudging rightness and wrongness is to use liberal humanist situational ethics.
Savage made an ignorant and ill informed statement that put the figure of misdiagnosis of autism at 99% and called children with that diagnosis “brats.”
There is misdiagnosis in every illness known to mankind and autism is no exception. However to accuse the majority of diagnosing neuro-pediatrians (many of whom are conservatives and Republicans) of deliberately misdiagnosing 99% of their clients is unconscionable.
Savage should just “man up” and admit he made a mistake and move on from there. “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”