This is only going to get worse as long as the corrupt political elite establishment is running our country. It includes both liberal and conservatives and they care nothing for American citizens, but only for industries who line their pockets. It may be too late, but our only hope is if one of the two anti-establishment candidates win by a landslide, because it will be harder for them to manipulate the election to get another establishment candidate, like Clinton or Cruz, in than if it's a close race.

I guess the implication is that the ICD-9 code for autism, 299.0, was mis-entered, often by substituting a leading "0" for a trailing one, with the result that autism diagnoses were transformed into something different. Then if the errors were discovered, they would look like inadvertent data entry errors (whether they were or not).

Dr. Yazbak,

" “Results — The estimated prevalence of ASD based on 2014 data was 2.24%, a significant increase from the estimated annualized prevalence of 1.25% based on 2011–2013 data”. "

Two comments. First, the study also states that "the overall prevalence of children with either ASD or other DD did not change between 2011–2013 (5.26%) and 2014 (5.30%)." That tells me focusing on ASD may be overly restrictive for purposes of assessing damage from vaccines and other environmental contributing factors. We're letting arbitrary definitions drive the analysis, rather than the science. If one of the main characteristics of these toxic stimuli in combination is neuroinflammation, why wouldn't the broader category of neurodevelopmental adverse effects be a more appropriate metric than only ASD or ADHD or .....? I've talked with people who have taught in the elementary schools for three or four decades. They have stated that when they started, one child in a class of ~thirty with such problems would not be all that frequent. Now, they are finding ten-twenty percent of the class with those types of problems not at all uncommon, if one includes ASD, ADHD, et al. These numbers are closer to the >5% numbers listed above.

Second, your reference states: "Children with ASD were mostly male.... and non-Hispanic white ..... living in families in large MSAs .... with two parents ..... and with at least one parent who had more than a high school level of education." It also states: "Parents were asked: ‘‘Did a doctor or health professional ever tell you that [child’s name] had autism, Asperger’s disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, or autism spectrum disorder?’’"

Thus, the researchers did not ascertain INDEPENDENTLY whether the child had any of these disorders. They relied on the parents' relaying a doctor's diagnosis of their child. This assumes 1) that their child visited a doctor who could make an accurate diagnosis, 2) that the doctor in fact made the proper diagnosis, 3) that the parent understood the diagnosis, and 4) that the parent relayed the diagnosis accurately to the interviewer. If any of these assumptions is invalid, then the numbers will (probably) be underestimated.

Given the characteristics of the children summarized above, it seems that minority children were under-represented. That would not be surprising; they, on average, probably have less health care, and probably see a doctor less frequently than majority children, especially the type of specialists needed to make a proper diagnosis. If Thompson's allegations are correct, these minority children might be both more susceptible to toxic environmental stimuli such as vaccines et al, and might be more exposed to other types of environmental toxic stimuli as well.

Finally, the organization that conducted the survey is part of the CDC. Given what Dr. Thompson has alleged about the misconduct of the CDC relative to the link between MMR vaccine and autism, why would you give ANY credence to numbers that they generate? Look at the report you cite. A number of references contain some of the co-authors of the infamous 2004 paper in Pediatrics that Thompson alleges was ripe with misconduct. At best, we might view the >5% neurodevelopmental estimate as a FLOOR. The real number might be closer to what the teachers have conveyed to me, and, in fact, even the teachers are seeing only that subset of children with neurodevedlopmental disorders that are able to go to their school. I shudder to think of what the real numbers would be like if all children with these problems were identified accurately!

Ed

So 1 in 45

BTW In Britain we have RIRO (Rubbish In Rubbish Out)

At my children's elementary school there'a a teacher and two teaching assistants in every class because there are so many children on the spectrum or with learning difficulties these days.
In the second grade class there are three kids on the autism spectrum. (These are children born in 2008). I don't know about first grade and kindergarten but they probably have similar numbers. If other schools are like this it would mean the autism rate is around 10% for babies born in 2008.

"The CDC announced today an autism rate of 1 in 68 children (1.5% of eight year olds surveyed in 2012) for those born in 2004, unchanged from the last reported rate for children born in 2002."

Apparently the CDC has seen the trailer to Vaxxed where Dr. Seneff explains that by 2032 80% of boys born will be autistic. It seems the CDC had to rush some bogus stats out ahead of the film's premiere this weekend.

They could not be more obvious.

Utah has had THE highest rate of autism, as well as extremely high vaccine uptake rates, thanks to a compliant Mormon population.

No wonder they want to cook the books.

It is time to demand that all government employees are held accountable for their actions, and fire most of these corrupt ones and as for the department heads, well, put them all in prison

Thank you for this alert.

A fruitless couple of searches about this topic brought up another study I missed (though it's probably old news to most):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines/news/2016-03-21-people-with-autism-are-dying-younger-warns-study/

http://ki.se/en/news/people-with-autism-run-a-higher-risk-of-premature-death

You all knew they were cooking hard some years back as they changed the protocols in the DSM books.

They told us all right there in the IACC meeting. She (forgot her name) said they had reduced the numbers of the ones with PDD-NOS and threw them into the communication disorders and other diagnoses.

Sooooo; what is the rise in the stats in the communication

disorders? Hmmm?

Fair play to Dr Zimmerman (I wish you well)

So this is the latest dirty trick - cooking the books on top of the maiming and the carnage . There are no depths to which the CDC will not stoop !