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XXongo writes: A New York times article suggests that merging the diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome into the Autism diagnosis in 2013, thus creating the “autism spectrum disorder,” was not helpful (paywalled; alternative source). That broadening of the diagnosis, along with the increasing awareness of the disorder, is largely responsible for the steep rise in autism cases that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called “an epidemic” and has attributed to theories of causality that mainstream…
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