I recently saw this on my Facebook feed whilst scrolling through this week. Unfortunately, what was not included was a link to the academic article where this photo-based infographic was created from. If you want to read my opinion one's ability to trust academic articles, feel free. I’ve included the academic article, which was funded by CHIPRA and ACA. The data was taken from the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health, where N=91,642 (where there are over sixty million children ages 0-17 in the United States. There conclusions were of special importance in the 2009 CHIPRA and ACA legislation.
I have this sickening suspicion that this “new normal” will be blamed on “obesity levels”. So, I decided that instead of disproving each and every single one of these statistics, I’d be brief. Let's face it. Most of you just skim read, and if you see citations or footnotes, you’re not going to bother. I get it. I didn’t realize the importance of footnotes and endnotes until graduate school. Considering only 7% of the country complete graduate school, I know that at least 90% of you want something quick that you can cite, and if there are any questions, they go to the source who has the real citations.
And yes, that is condescending, but since the majority of you are lazy, uneducated morons - I really don’t care.
Autism, and chronic illnesses are linked not only to genetics, but to environment. Specifically, autism has been linked to environmental stressors beginning in utero. One of those? Pollution. So, if you live in Los Angeles County, prepare for the likelihood that your children will be on the spectrum and shut the fuck up. If you could pull your heads out of your asses long enough to, I don’t know, get involved in your community to bring about change in governmental regulations (that pander to big business, obviously), you might be doing some good for your children.
Blaming genetically modified crops is absolute fucking bullshit. Notice that most people who shit on Monsanto don’t ever cite the academic reports or data that they are pulling out of thin-fucking-air. Everything we consume is genetically modified in some way, shape, or form. And, organic? Do your research. Blaming vaccinations makes me stabby. Especially when reports from over two or three decades ago are cited. Even more so when they link Dr. Sears. How about if you’re going to blame big businesses, you blame those that are dumping hormones into the drinkable water, or pumping toxic shit into the air. It isn’t always Big Pharm.
Considering there are a number of more likely reasons that could be looked into, but which most are too lazy to Google…