Posted on 02/14/2017 12:35:11 PM PST by markomalley
President Trump quizzed a school principal about autism during a meeting with educators at the White House on Tuesday.
“Have you seen a big increase in the autism with the children?” Trump asked Jane Quenneville, the principal of a Virginia public school specializing in special education.
Quenneville responded that she has, and noted her school “has shifted its population” to accommodate more students with autism.
“So what’s going on with autism?” Trump asked. “When you look at the tremendous increase, it’s really such an incredible — it’s really a horrible thing to watch, the tremendous amount of increase. Do you have any idea?” Quenneville didn’t provide an explanation, but cited statistics showing that autism affects 1 in 66 or 68 children.
“Maybe we can do something,” Trump said, claiming the rate is “coming in even lower.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data last March that showed 1 in 68 school-aged children are diagnosed with autism, unchanged from its previous estimate.
Trump did not say what he believes causes autism, but in the past he has linked vaccines to what he calls an “epidemic” of the condition. And 10 days before taking office, he met with leading vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr.
Scientists and researchers have found no evidence connecting vaccines to developmental disorders such as autism.
“Studies have shown that there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing [autism],” according to the CDC.
Well, it’s a good question.
It is. It’s not like he asked what crappy school lunches he will force unto schools unlike a certain sasquatch..
I am sure he will still be slammed for this question, sadly.
It is.
I wouldn’t trust the CDC to take my temperature.
They lost me with their happy dance around the truth on AIDS.
They slam him for breathing. I’m sick to death of it.
He is asking the question because he knows that the CDC is lying about the connections between vaccines and autism.
Hey, CDC! That is the theme from Jaws that you are hearing. ;-)
The exponential increase in autism in the United States closely parallels the dramatic increase in drug use in women of child bearing age. Nature never intended a developing fetal brain to be exposed to marijuana, barbiturates, carbon monoxide from smoking all sorts of substances,amphetamines,cocaine opiates such as heroin,alcohol and multiple prescription drugs.There is a downside to the hedonistic lifestyle.
They will badger him for every little thing and it won’t end.
it’s not that the vaccines are tainted...
just 1 in 68 of them are
Well, it’s a good question.
There is no such thing as a heretical question. Only answers can be heretical.
i.e. you can question Trump’s motives all day, but if you can’t answer his question, or don’t like the answer, it’s not on him.
Also with the lies about second hand smoke.
Yes...
Rush was talking about second hand smoke the other day.
Traditionally the Left has gone after smoking in a big way.
Now with the legalization of Marijuana, they don’t seem to think second hand smoke is so bad anymore.
When it comes to smoking it, all the concern about tar and nicotine has been toned down too.
When you take a drag, you suck it deep into your lungs and hold it there to be absorbed.
No problem there.
Only normal cigarettes are the threat.
I took a peek at the CDC leadership org chart (still has an interim head), and I am reminded of BU president John Silber’s comment about their English department, made a couple of decades ago: It looks like a damned matriarchy.
https://www.cdc.gov/about/pdf/organization/cdc-photo-org-chart.pdf
Is there an incentive in Public Schools for a mis-Diagnosis to help expand Special Ed and higher more Union specialists?
I had a big fight with my local school when they tried this crap with my daughter. She has a Master’s degree now.
I threatened to sue them over the fact that they had no qualifications to make that diagnosis or recommendation and I had my kid’s Dr on my side.
The school decided I was no fun and too much trouble too fight with. That teacher took early retirement after that year as we had a parade of parents on assigned days torture the principal and the Superintendent and the School Board over this witch.
Years later I was a GOP Poll watcher at a local precinct and who was the Dem poll watcher? That teacher’s husband. hahaha
There may not be that many more kids with “autism”. The problem is that they have redefined the term to include every type of behavior that is not considered to be normal.
Expand the definition and you will find more people who fit within it.
The CDC purchases more than $4 billion dollars worth of vaccines per year
I have skepticism re vax hysteria. On both sides.
Having said that, I bet that the increase isn’t increase in autists. It’s an increase in diagnosises.
I’m autistic but wasn’t diagnosed until I was 23. They also recently changed the autism definition to include Aspergers.
I have worked with quite a few individuals with autism ranging in age from 8 to 73 in both males and females. it’s easy to show what causes it when you understand the attributes of male consciousness vs female consciousness.
Autism is a super masculine consciousness, which is the reason more males get it than females. While there are several causes that I have identified, the primary cause is an external influence during the third month of pregnancy when neural tube development is taking place.
Is is strongly correlated to early childhood attachment/abandonment as described by Bowlby and Ainsworth in styles of attachment.
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