WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:07.360 Thank you for listening to Depictions Media Radio. 2 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:28.879 Welcome to Policy and Rights show up, Gosh, welcomer, Policy 3 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:59.359 human Joys. All right, welcome back to Policy and Rights. 4 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.200 Here Depictions to Media Radio. I'm your host, Michael Cloggs. 5 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:11.840 There's a lot going on about Robert Kennedy Junior making 6 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:16.120 some comments about autism. How I'm saying it is reached 7 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:23.120 epidemic levels and he wants the CDC to look into it. Okay, 8 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:31.200 let's let's discuss autism. Autism is a spectrum disorder and 9 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:35.719 the reason why we want to focus on that word disorder. 10 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:41.680 Let's focus on that for a second. And what you're 11 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:46.000 gonna find out is that autism is a different way 12 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.840 of wiring the brain so that it will function. Nature 13 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:55.920 is an amazing thing and it produced this alternative way 14 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:04.439 for our brain to function. And autism is that there 15 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:09.319 are different levels of autism and different ways to get 16 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:12.319 through to each person so that you can communicate and 17 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:17.960 find out their ideas. When you manage to unlock those 18 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:24.560 ideas that each and every person has within them, you 19 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:30.000 find that wait a second, it's a different wiring of 20 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:36.479 the brain. That means their brain actually functions and it 21 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:43.240 functions at a very in a very different way. Notice 22 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:55.560 I'm not using any terms that would denounce intelligence or 23 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:00.840 or state something that there is a cure in the 24 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:07.879 leading back to what Robert Kennedy Jr. Is actually driving 25 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.520 at with the idea of bringing the CDC board to 26 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:17.000 examine why autism is at a all time epidemic. High 27 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:24.879 epidemic needs the curable disease. There is no cure for 28 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:32.319 autism because it's not a disease. There is no fixing 29 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:37.960 the brain because there's nothing wrong with a person's brain 30 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.840 who has autism. There is only a matter of understanding. 31 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:50.319 And it would seem that once again that in order 32 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:59.080 to put an agenda forth that mister Trump and his 33 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:04.879 administration has to denounce something else that is wonderful and beautiful. 34 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.400 I will tell you this that I have been doing 35 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:16.560 doing radio and podcasting broadcasting for quite a number of years, 36 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:24.439 and one of my longtime partners has autism, and he 37 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:32.199 was one of the best broadcasters I've ever met because 38 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:39.439 he was able to focus on details that Hey, with 39 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:45.040 my normal wiring of the brain was not able to see. 40 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:52.800 He was able to hear things differently. He was able 41 00:04:52.920 --> 00:05:02.519 to see a different path of interesting. I just keep 42 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:08.000 using the word different or diverse because that is what 43 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.839 autism actually is. It is a different wiring. It is 44 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:21.720 a nature creating diversity within the human species. Okay, so 45 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.680 this next recording you're gonna hear leads back to some 46 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:31.560 of my roots in broadcasting. One of the shows that 47 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.800 Kelly Rayburn and I did together, and Kelly is that 48 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:39.000 partner that I've talked about and long long term friend 49 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:45.399 that I've talked about with autism, and he produced this 50 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:52.040 next episode of Community Living, and that Community Living podcast 51 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:56.800 you also you cannot actually listen to its entirety under 52 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:02.040 our umbrella ads community living podcasts, but I'm going to 53 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:04.720 post it up again because I think that this is 54 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:11.680 important to understand that autism is a brain function. It 55 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:17.079 is not a disease. It's not necessarily a disorder. It's 56 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:25.600 just a diverse functioning of the brain, and that we 57 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:34.839 should respect that and we should also listen to people 58 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:38.920 that have it, because there is no such thing as 59 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:46.600 stupidity or any of those other really outdated terms that 60 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:53.519 we just find a way to communicate together in harmony. 61 00:06:53.639 --> 00:07:02.439 So let's move forward into the Community Living podcast as 62 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:10.759 recorded by Kelly Rayburn about autism and r f k's 63 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:13.079 junior's statements. 64 00:07:21.720 --> 00:08:54.120 Thank you for listening to Pictures Media Radio. 65 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:02.759 This is the Community Living podcast on Depictions Media Radio. 66 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:07.360 I'm Kelly Reeburn or known as kJ ray for Gums 67 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:11.519 and Maples, Episode fifteen. We're going to talk about some 68 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:19.559 issues on autism. Now. Two days ago, I believe RFK 69 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:23.720 Robert Ford Kennedy has addressed the conference on the new 70 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:28.600 issues on autism fundings and the issues from the CDC, 71 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:33.399 the disease control and the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention. 72 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:39.120 So basically he's going to talk about many of the 73 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:43.519 issues that has come up with the House and Human 74 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:51.279 Services Secretary from Robert F. Kennedy Junior, and discussion on 75 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:57.480 the latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities monitoring, the a DDM 76 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:03.759 network survey, the centers from these control and prevention in America. 77 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:10.639 So it's about thirty minutes. It's about thirty minutes clip 78 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:18.039 of how Robert RFK Jr. Has talked about on the 79 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:23.840 issues dealing with the CDC and I'm guessing could be 80 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:28.519 dealing with vaccine issues and stuff like that that might 81 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:33.000 be happening in and around America. So here now is 82 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:38.360 a clip of RFK Junior holding the press coverance on 83 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:44.080 the latest fundings with Autism through to the CDC. If 84 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:48.159 you have any more information about me and what I 85 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.440 do for my show is Gums and Mabels at gmail 86 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:56.000 dot com. And that's what I do. 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And you have my email Gums and 95 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.039 Maples at gmail dot com if you want to hear 96 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:45.279 more about what I do and for not just my 97 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:50.120 musical show but other forms like this like can You 98 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.840 a Living podcasts or Paulsy and rights issues that kind 99 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:59.639 of stuff. Anyways, here's the clip now on RFK Junior 100 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:03.519 holding press conference on the Autism fundings for the CDC. 101 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:11.279 Enjoy Human Services, Welcome to the process and the supporters 102 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:14.039 of the MAHA movement who are here today to listen 103 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:20.120 to Secretary Kennedy and Walter Zaharandi's remarks regarding the CDC's 104 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:26.080 latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network survey that was 105 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:31.360 published yesterday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 106 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.120 I am honored to introduce to you Secretary Robert F. 107 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:36.120 Kennedy Junior. 108 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.720 I'm going to go over some of the key numbers 109 00:12:50.759 --> 00:13:00.240 from the eight m report. Overall, the autism is is 110 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:06.600 increasing in prevalence, had an alarming rate. The study tests 111 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:10.919 eight year olds who were born in twenty fourteen, and 112 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:14.679 by the way, these studies are two years later than 113 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:17.840 they should be. And one of the things that we're 114 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:22.559 going to do is we remove this function to the 115 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.039 Administration for Healthy America to the Chronic Disease The new 116 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:30.200 Chronic Disease Division is we are going to have updated 117 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.480 real time data so that people can look at this. 118 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:38.960 Americans can understand what is happening with chronic disease in 119 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:42.240 this country in real time. And I'd have to wait 120 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:46.240 two years to react. We don't wait two years to 121 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:49.159 react to a measless epidemic, and we should not or 122 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:52.279 a diaby or any kind of infectious disease. We shouldn't 123 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:57.840 have to do that for diabetes or autism. The ASD 124 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.919 prevalence rate in eight year old this is now one 125 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:06.879 in thirty one, shocking. There's an extreme risk for boys. 126 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:08.559 Over all. 127 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.879 The risk for boys of getting an autism diagnosis in 128 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:17.039 this country is now one in twenty and is high 129 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:21.240 in California, which has the best DAID of collection. Oh 130 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:25.080 it probably also reflects a national trend one in twelve 131 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:33.919 point five boys. This is part of an unrelenting upward trend. 132 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.960 The prevalence two years ago was one in thirty six. 133 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.480 Since the first eighty DM report in nineteen ninety, which 134 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:48.200 was nineteen ninety two berths autism has increased by a 135 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:53.000 factor of four point eight. It's four hundred and eighty percent. 136 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:57.000 I believe the first eighty DM the survey was twenty 137 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:59.720 two years ago. One prevalence was one in fifty one 138 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:04.159 in one hundred and fifty children in all the core states. 139 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:11.080 The trend is consistently upward, and most cases now are severe, 140 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.600 so about twenty five percent of the kids who are 141 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:20.679 diagnosed with autism are nonverbal, non toilet trained, and have 142 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:30.799 other stereotypical features headbanging, tactile and light sensitivities, stemming, toe walking, 143 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:39.840 et cetera. One of the things that I think that 144 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:45.000 we need to move away from today is this is 145 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:50.200 this ideology that this that the autism diagnoses, that the 146 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:56.279 autism prevalence increase, that the relentless increases are simply artifacts 147 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:03.080 of better diagnoses, better recognition, or changing diagnostic criteria. If 148 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:07.120 you look at Table three of the ad DM report, 149 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:11.399 it's clear that the rates are real, that they are 150 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:15.519 increasing in the last ten years, year by which is 151 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:19.559 the fruit beginning with the first one. Year by year, 152 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:25.120 there is a steady, relentless increase. I want it because 153 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:32.600 this this epidemic denial has become a feature in the 154 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:37.000 mainstream media, and it's based on an industry canard. And 155 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:39.960 obviously there are people who don't want us to look 156 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:46.000 at environmental exposures, and so I want to just read 157 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:48.919 you some of the little excerpts from some of the 158 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:54.519 older studies. The baseline for autism in this country was 159 00:16:54.720 --> 00:17:01.399 established with the biggest, the largest epidemiological study in history, 160 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:05.200 a study of all nine hundred thousand children in the 161 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:10.240 state of Wisconsin children under the age of twelve. They 162 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:19.160 found point seven point seven children and autism meant every 163 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:24.359 ten thousand. That's less than one in ten thousand. Today 164 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:33.759 we're one in thirty one. The that study also confirmed 165 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:42.279 the for to one male to female ratio. There were 166 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:48.599 at that time just over sixty children in Wisconsin with autism, 167 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:57.000 and today it's around twenty thousand. In nineteen eighty seven, 168 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:01.559 there was another exhaustive study, a peer viewed study in 169 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:05.079 North Dakota set out to count every child in the 170 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:10.279 state with a pervasive developmental disorder, including autism. That study 171 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:15.400 meticulously can through every record, every diagnosis, and he even 172 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:20.079 conducted the in person assessments of the entire population of 173 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:24.240 one hundred and eighty thousand children under eighteen. The autism 174 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:27.960 rate they found was three point three per ten thousand, 175 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:30.480 So that's in line with a one in ten thousand 176 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:38.559 that was found in Wisconsin seventeen years earlier or contexts today, 177 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:42.680 the last number of one in thirty six is eighty 178 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:50.880 three times higher. In nineteen eighty seven, out of every 179 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:56.039 one million kids, three hundred and thirty were diagnosed with autism. Today, 180 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:59.319 there are twenty seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy seven 181 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:05.759 for every million. If you accept the epidemic deniers narrative, 182 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:09.880 you have to believe that researches in North Dakota missed 183 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:13.519 ninety eight point eight percent of the children with autism, 184 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:20.960 and thousands of profoundly disabled children were somehow invisible to doctors, teachers, parents, 185 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:30.319 and even their own study. The same researchers who followed 186 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:36.240 the original cohort for twelve years to double checked their number. 187 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:39.119 They went back in two thousand and found that they 188 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:44.519 had missed exactly one child. So doctors and therapists in 189 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:49.200 the past were not stupid, They weren't missing all these cases. 190 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:58.519 The epidemic Israel. Between nineteen fifty nine and nineteen to 191 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:04.480 sixty five, researchers from fourteen hospitals associated with major universities 192 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:11.279 undertook the National Collaborative Perinatal Project, tracking thirty thousand children 193 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:15.119 from birth to age eight. This was no a half 194 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:21.160 big survey based analysis. The study conducted nine separate screenings 195 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:28.440 covering neurology, psychology, speech, language, hearing, and visual function. Every 196 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:33.039 developmental quirk anominally in disorder was logged with painstaking detail. 197 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:38.880 Autism condition characterized by profound impairments and social communication and 198 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:42.880 behavior would have stood out like a fashion, like a 199 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:49.079 neon sign. There were fourteen cases as four point seven 200 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:54.279 per ten thousand. So we know what the historic numbers are, 201 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:57.480 and we know what the numbers are today. And it's 202 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:03.759 time for everybody stop attributing this to this ideology of 203 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:10.920 epidemic denial and was in In two thousand and nine, 204 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:18.839 the California State Legislature charged the Mind Institute of UC 205 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:25.000 Davis with because this myth was already becoming pervasive. The 206 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:29.359 myth of epidemic denial was already becoming pervasive in the 207 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:35.039 mainstream media. The California Legislature directed the Mind Institute of 208 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:40.440 u SEE Davis to answer the question, and Irva Hertz Pahoto, 209 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:46.759 is a highly esteem revered as a scientist, neurology and epidemologists, 210 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:52.599 came back with a definitive answer. The epidemic Israel. Only 211 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:55.200 a very very small portion of it can be changed, 212 00:21:55.200 --> 00:22:00.559 A better can be charged, a better recognition or better diagnosicteria. 213 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:03.839 I want to say a couple of other things. There 214 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.440 are many, many other studies that are firm this and 215 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:15.799 instead of listening to this is a canard of epidemic denial. 216 00:22:16.359 --> 00:22:18.200 All you have to do is start reading a little 217 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.319 science because the answer is very clear and this is 218 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:27.279 catastrophic for our country. There's a recent study by blackxail 219 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:30.920 at All and a team of other researchers said that 220 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:33.839 the cause of treating autism in this country by twenty 221 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:37.319 thirty five, so within ten years, will be a trillion 222 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.400 dollars a year. This is added to already astronomical health 223 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:46.720 care costs. And then there's an individual injury. These are 224 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:50.319 kids that this is a preventable disease. We know it's 225 00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:54.039 an environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not 226 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:58.559 cause epidemics. They can provide a vulnerability. You need an 227 00:22:58.599 --> 00:23:05.359 environmental toxin and our erv hurtz. Buta Shoda pointed out 228 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:14.160 that that because of this mythology tend to the amount 229 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:19.440 of money and resources put into studying genetic causes, which 230 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:23.880 is a dead end, has been historically ten to twenty 231 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:28.759 times the amount to spent by NIAGE and other agencies 232 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:35.200 to study environmental factors, to study exposures, to study external factors, 233 00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:38.920 and that's where we're going to find the answer. This 234 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:45.960 is an individual tragedy as well. Autism destroys families. More importantly, 235 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:49.759 it destroys our greatest resource, which are our children. These 236 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:52.759 are children who should not be who should not be 237 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:56.680 suffering like this. These are kids who, many of them, 238 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:02.200 were fully functional and regressed because of some environmental exposure 239 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:07.400 into autism when they're two years old. And these are 240 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:12.319 kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, 241 00:24:13.319 --> 00:24:17.880 they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem, they'll 242 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:20.599 never go out on a date. Many of them will 243 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:26.279 never use a toilet unassisted. And we have to recognize 244 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:29.519 we are doing this to our children, and we need 245 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:33.279 to put an end to it. And I think I'm 246 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:38.599 going to have Walter Zahar Rodney, who is the most 247 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:43.640 senior researcher for this project for ADDM, and who's been 248 00:24:43.640 --> 00:24:46.319 doing this for many years, to come up and say 249 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:47.079 a little. 250 00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:59.000 Good morning, thank you for being here. I'm here as 251 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:04.559 a long term autism researcher and a clinical psychologist. I 252 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:08.000 get to wear two hats. One with patients and families 253 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.079 trying to help them get to a diagnosis and to 254 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:16.440 interventions and treatments, but also for the last twenty plus 255 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:19.599 years as the director of the New Jersey Autism Study, 256 00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:27.640 which is a CDC sponsored autism surveillance system. We've monitored 257 00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:31.160 autism in New Jersey in concert with the Centers for 258 00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:36.759 Disease Control and Prevention since two thousand. When we began 259 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:41.160 our endeavor with CDC, we expected to do maybe two 260 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:46.119 or three baseline studies to establish how many children have autism, 261 00:25:46.519 --> 00:25:49.839 because it was not expected that autism prevalence would increase. 262 00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:55.359 Other childhood disabilities, neurologic disorders do not increase or change 263 00:25:55.400 --> 00:25:59.960 over time. But somehow, for some reason, with autism, everything 264 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:06.759 was different. Autism went from being a very unusual, rare 265 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:12.400 disability which affected, as the Secretary said, one child in 266 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:16.480 maybe ten thousand, to being known in every community, every 267 00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:22.039 school district, every center that cares for children with disabilities. 268 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:27.680 Autism is real. It's a true disability. It's not a 269 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:35.400 personal quirky issue. Everything is changed for the individual with autism, 270 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:39.440 and while there's a wide range of expression, it does 271 00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:44.839 change the family and it does inevitably change the community. 272 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:51.559 In the society in which we find it, autism prevalence 273 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:55.480 has increased very dramatically. It's increased in New Jersey where 274 00:26:55.519 --> 00:27:01.440 we have excellent resources and access to services, and it's 275 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:05.200 increased in all the states in the network. It's increased 276 00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:10.400 not only by the CDC ATOM network active surveillance activities, 277 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:17.000 but it's increased according to federal idea, statistics and information 278 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:24.079 from multitude of surveys. It is a true increase. There 279 00:27:24.119 --> 00:27:27.720 is better awareness of autism, but better awareness of autism 280 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:33.680 cannot be driving disability like autism to increase by three 281 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:37.240 hundred percent in twenty years. That's what we saw on 282 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:42.200 New Jersey. That's what the CDC report of yesterday indicates, 283 00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:48.759 and that's what, in my opinion, future reports from epidemiologists 284 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:55.200 will show. The data provided in yesterday's report strongly suggests 285 00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:59.599 that not only is this a high point of autism prevalence, 286 00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:07.640 but in the future rates can only be higher. Autism 287 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:14.359 deserves to be treated as a real public health phenomenon, 288 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:18.200 and I would say is an urgent public health crisis. 289 00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:25.039 It's not just that we're more astute or perceptive. It's 290 00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:28.519 not like these it's not like two or three children 291 00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:34.359 out of for everyone with autism has remained invisible. Autism 292 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:39.759 is striking and the consequences are life long. So I 293 00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:46.480 would urge everyone to consider the likelihood that autism, whether 294 00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:50.960 you call it an epidemic, tsunami, or a surge of autism, 295 00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:54.680 is a real thing that we don't understand, and it 296 00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:59.400 must be triggered or caused by environmental or risk factors. 297 00:29:01.480 --> 00:29:05.640 We need to address this question seriously, because, in my opinion, 298 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:09.920 for the last twenty years, we've collected data but not 299 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:15.279 made real progress in understanding of what causes autism or 300 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:19.599 how to effectively prevent it or treat it effectively. So 301 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:24.079 I urge you to read the report very carefully. I 302 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:26.480 urge you to do something that nobody does and go 303 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:31.880 into the many supplemental tables and see that autism is 304 00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:37.119 a true phenomenon, and that we need a correct perception, 305 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:43.720 not a perception that allows us to just provide services 306 00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:48.960 without understanding the root causes or the true factors at play. 307 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:52.839 So thank you for your attention. I wish we could 308 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:53.960 answer questions. 309 00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:58.000 I think we can. Let me just say one other thing. 310 00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:04.079 I read a I referred to a number of studies. 311 00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:07.720 There are many, many, many others in the scientific literature 312 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:12.920 that absolutely explode this mythology that this is. You know, 313 00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:17.039 that the autism epidemic is not real. If you read 314 00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:27.359 the literature, it is absolutely it is absolutely indefensible to 315 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:31.519 continue to promote this. But it doesn't take you to 316 00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:34.759 read the literature. It just takes a little common sense. 317 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:39.519 If autism, if the epidemic is an artifact, a better 318 00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:44.519 diagnostic criteria or better recognition, And why are we not 319 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:48.440 seeing it in older people? Why is this only happening 320 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:52.559 in young people? You know? I asked Walter before we 321 00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:54.680 came out here, I said, have you ever seen anybody 322 00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:59.440 our age? I'm seventy one years old with full blown autism, 323 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:07.400 head banging, uh, nonverbal, non toilet trained, stimming, toe walking, 324 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:12.839 these other stereotypical features. Where are these people walking around 325 00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:15.960 them all? You can't find them. They're not in homes. 326 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:19.599 There are no homes for them, there are no institutions 327 00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:22.400 for them. Why are we seeing them on the street? 328 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:27.279 Anybody can look around and see that this is a canard, 329 00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:31.039 And then you have to ask yourself why is it 330 00:31:31.079 --> 00:31:34.599 so pervasive? Why has it been thrown up against us 331 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:39.400 for so many years? And clearly there are industries. This 332 00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:42.599 is coming from an environmental toxin, and somebody made a 333 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:47.319 profit by putting that environmental toxin into our air, our water, 334 00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:52.119 our medicines, our food. And it's their benefit to say 335 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:55.359 all to normalize it, to say all this is all normal, 336 00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:59.519 it's always been here. But that's not good for our country. 337 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:05.200 It's not good for the press to not be more inquisitive, 338 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:10.480 to not be more skeptical. And within three weeks, and 339 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:14.359 probably we're hoping in two weeks, we're gonna announce a 340 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:20.160 series of new studies to identify precisely what the environmental 341 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:23.720 toxins are that are causing it. This has not been 342 00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:26.759 done before, and we're gonna do it in a thorough 343 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:29.240 and comprehensive way. And we're gonna get back to when 344 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:34.720 with an answer to the American people very very quickly. Great, 345 00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.759 thank you, Yeah, go ahead. 346 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:40.519 I was not diagnosed with autism to take that charity 347 00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:43.000 for whis it took me five years to get dig 348 00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.960 us later. You also talk about the fact that the 349 00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:49.119 numbers increase with black and the GP you your own 350 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:52.160 studies and your own study says these bodies are indicate 351 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:56.359 that improvements as the awareness identification of passes to services 352 00:32:56.359 --> 00:32:58.440 and communities above black and lets you bespect and hey, 353 00:32:58.440 --> 00:32:59.599 you can get children. 354 00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:00.599 How to true? 355 00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:03.440 Do you think that? D do you think that or 356 00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:04.640 are you denying that? 357 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:06.200 The past black. 358 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.000 Lets you know, the young people had not been diagnosed, 359 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:12.000 the diagnosed or to be able to They've been disciplinedly 360 00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:15.200 that incarcerated, and now they're finally getting the services that 361 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:15.599 they need. 362 00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:20.000 Oh yeah, I and and there are there are smallest 363 00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:24.960 livers of the autism epidemic, maybe ten percent to twenty 364 00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:29.160 five percent according to the studies highest studies, around twenty 365 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:32.920 five percent that can be attributed to to a better 366 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:37.359 recognition and better diagnosis. U. That means eighty five percent 367 00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:40.880 or are are still or seventy five percent to eighty 368 00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:45.519 percent are still are part of an epidemic. And that 369 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:48.720 is too many. And and that is what we need 370 00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:49.319 to address. 371 00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:52.319 Walter, do you have something you'd like to add? 372 00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:58.440 There's better recognition of autism and better awareness because there 373 00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:01.960 are more children with autism, and the professionals have greater 374 00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:06.000 reason to learn from what their experience and to diagnose. 375 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:11.159 I wish the contrary was true, but uh, it's not 376 00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:16.159 like better awareness pushes something that's not there. Rather something 377 00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:19.119 that's there is being recognized. 378 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.920 Secretary, can you please say your first and last name 379 00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:27.400 and outlet before asking a question. 380 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:29.760 Thank you. 381 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:38.440 Sure, oh, Secretary Kennedy, a manisites with the Associated Press. 382 00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:41.239 Some of the CDC's own research has concluded that there's 383 00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:44.199 a genetic link at play with autism. Are you saying 384 00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:46.679 today that you don't trust that research or that it 385 00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:48.480 was wrong? Could you explain? 386 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:53.760 No, there is You know, we have really good genetic 387 00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:59.119 markers now and they provide a vulnerability. Those genetic markers 388 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:04.280 alone are not going to are not going to dictate 389 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:10.639 your destiny. You need an environmental toxin. I mean, there 390 00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:15.599 are many genetic markers that dictate the metal methylation capacity 391 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:21.039 of the human body. Those contribute to those dictate me. 392 00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:26.920 You know, listen with many people smoke cigarettes and only 393 00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:30.599 one in five died from lung cancer. There were four 394 00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:34.039 of them that didn't and those were the ones that 395 00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:38.280 had some circumstances, probably genetic, and made them more susceptible 396 00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:42.960 to it. And the same is true. We know that 397 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:48.920 that gluetithion production and glu gluteith ion is is an 398 00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:53.039 enzyme that that helps the human body excrete metals and toxins. 399 00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:58.440 People with low glutithion production are more vulnerable. People with 400 00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:01.880 the mt HF orgy in which dictates of methylation are 401 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:06.119