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When science is biased and works to comply with a certain agenda, the research can be confusing at best. Such is the case with the most recent attempt to divert attention from early childhood vaccinations as a causal factor for autism.
The study was conducted at UC Davis and its findings were published in a late 2011 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as "Brain enlargement is associated with regression in preschool-age boys with autism spectrum disorders." Making sure this study's vague conclusions got some public attention to help muddy the waters of vaccinations and autism, a summary of the journal's report was published in the health sections of several mainstream outlets. The stated theme was that this study added to the growing evidence that autism has "roots in different biological underpinnings" and "other subtypes of autism will be more closely associated with immunological differences or genetic alterations."
The recent study divided autism into regressive and non-regressive. Non-regressive autism is early onset autism. Not much has been developed with language and motor skills, so there is not as much "regression" as with one who has started speaking and walking. The study was comprised of 180 children from two to four years of age, mostly around three years old. Almost one-third had suffered non-regressive (early onset) autism, and slightly over one-third had suffered regressive autism; one-third of the subjects, who were not autistic, comprised the control group.
Magnetic resolution imaging (MRI) scans were performed on their brains to measure brain sizes, which were compared to available pediatric well visit head measurements at 18 months. The omission of vaccination records is curious. They bothered to get pediatric head measurements for the 18 month well visits, and didn't bother with vaccination histories?
When science is biased and works to comply with a certain agenda, the research can be confusing at best. Such is the case with the most recent attempt to divert attention from early childhood vaccinations as a causal factor for autism.
The study was conducted at UC Davis and its findings were published in a late 2011 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as "Brain enlargement is associated with regression in preschool-age boys with autism spectrum disorders." Making sure this study's vague conclusions got some public attention to help muddy the waters of vaccinations and autism, a summary of the journal's report was published in the health sections of several mainstream outlets. The stated theme was that this study added to the growing evidence that autism has "roots in different biological underpinnings" and "other subtypes of autism will be more closely associated with immunological differences or genetic alterations."
The recent study divided autism into regressive and non-regressive. Non-regressive autism is early onset autism. Not much has been developed with language and motor skills, so there is not as much "regression" as with one who has started speaking and walking. The study was comprised of 180 children from two to four years of age, mostly around three years old. Almost one-third had suffered non-regressive (early onset) autism, and slightly over one-third had suffered regressive autism; one-third of the subjects, who were not autistic, comprised the control group.
Magnetic resolution imaging (MRI) scans were performed on their brains to measure brain sizes, which were compared to available pediatric well visit head measurements at 18 months. The omission of vaccination records is curious. They bothered to get pediatric head measurements for the 18 month well visits, and didn't bother with vaccination histories?
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