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AUTISM IN ROOM 5 by David Kirby 		   
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AUTISM IN ROOM 5
By David Kirby
Huffington Post

Some witnesses for the U.S. Justice Department will testify in Vaccine Court this week that there's no such thing as an autism epidemic. They will say that autism is genetic in origin, and that its rate is generally static: about 1-in-150 children. A genetic disorder, of course, has no external "cause," and nothing in the environment -- least of all mercury in vaccines -- could be driving autism numbers upward.

Better diagnosis and wider reporting, they say, are really to blame.

But there is a pivotal flaw to this argument: As a genetic disorder that seems to affect all races equally, autism rates should be roughly 1-in-150 in every age group, in every country, in every state, virtually in every town. But they are not.
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06/22/2007by: shannonj
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