ABC10 San Diego:

"The sharply different estimates add more fuel to the debate over how common autism is, and whether it is on the rise. To show what a difference the varying estimates would make in Allegheny County alone, which has 1.2 million residents, the number of autistic people could range from 12,000, using the British figure, to more than 32,000, using the South Korea study.
 
"It is no wonder, then, that leading autism researchers have conflicting opinions on how widespread the disorder is."
 
Mark Roth of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette has had a number of stories lately all about the mystery of autism.  Experts have no answers.  Roth tells us that it may be years before they know anything for sure, even about the autism rate.  I guess the message is that while experts are in a fog about autism, no one is alarmed.  I posted five comments.
 
UK Daily Mail

"She was unveiled as a new host of The View in a blaze of publicity in July.

"But after making her debut just one month ago, it looks like Jenny McCarthy may already be getting axed from the show.

"The former Playboy favourite is turning off viewers due to her controversial style on the chat show, prompting ABC executives to apparently consider letting her go....

"McCarthy has come under fire for claiming her nine-year-old son Evan's autism was caused by childhood immunisations, which goes against the beliefs of scientists."

How interesting that this is being reported in Britain and that they add the little mention about the autism controversy and that scientists don't believe it.  Does that include all the scientists in the whole world?  It seems so.

Augusta (ME) Kennebec Journal:

"Understanding and awareness of autism has come a long way in the last 30 years, but so much concerning the condition remains in the dark, even as diagnoses skyrocket.

"That's why it's heartening to see a group of Maine-based researchers on the receiving end of a two-year, $1.2 million grant to study severe autism.

"A team from Spring Harbor Hospital in Westbrook and the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough, led by Dr. Matthew Siegel, will direct the study. It will track 500 to 1,000 children, with the goal of finding more effective treatment, and perhaps helping to determine a cause.

"Research such as Siegel's is part of the answer to the questions raised by autism, the catch-all term for a wide-ranging disorder that is fast becoming one of the defining social health issues of our time. It requires a thoughtful response, as more than 500,000 children with autism will become adults in the next decade."

This is the sad reality: The adults are the next big problem.  They can't be explained away.  The same people who couldn't tell us where all the children were coming from, can't tell us where they'll end up either.  This cost nightmare will be dumped on the states.  No one in Washington is talking about autistic adults and what we'll do with them. 

Catholic Online

Why is there an article on a religious site telling us to vaccinate and denying a link to autis?  Is this the position of the Church?  As a Catholic, this makes me angry.  My comments aren't up.