Half of All Children Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT

[AZMotherLover]

Half of All Children Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT

Why? Evidence points to glyphosate toxicity from the overuse of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide on our food.

For over three decades, Stephanie Seneff, PhD, has researched biology and technology, over the years publishing over 170 scholarly peer-reviewed articles [1]. In recent years she has concentrated on the relationship between nutrition and health, tackling such topics as Alzheimer’s, autism, and cardiovascular diseases, as well as the impact of nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxins on human health.

At a conference last Thursday, in a special panel discussion about GMOs, she took the audience by surprise when she declared, “At today’s rate, by 2025, one in two children will be autistic.” She noted that the side effects of autism closely mimic those of glyphosate toxicity, and presented data showing a remarkably consistent correlation [2] between the use of Roundup on crops (and the creation of Roundup-ready GMO crop seeds) with rising rates of autism. Children with autism have biomarkers indicative of excessive glyphosate, including zinc and iron deficiency, low serum sulfate, seizures, and mitochondrial disorder.

A fellow panelist reported [3] that after Dr. Seneff’s presentation, “All of the 70 or so people in attendance were squirming, likely because they now had serious misgivings about serving their kids, or themselves, anything with corn or soy, which are nearly all genetically modified and thus tainted with Roundup and its glyphosate.”

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[Ulaven_Demorte]

What a load of horse shit, some people will buy anything. Even a cursory look at this screams complete bullshit.

The research scientist in question, Stephanie Seneff, is a computer scientist with no background in epidemiology. It doesn't take a genius to spot that this is clearly a textbook case of correlation not implying causation. As David Gorski notes in his comprehensive debunking, the similar illusory correlation between autism and organic food sales, somewhat blows Seneff's observation out of the water.

As for the headline claim that half of all children will be autistic by 2025, this claim ignores the broad consensus that the increasing prevalence of autism is largely due to increasing rates of diagnosis and - as a new study has recently demonstrated changes in how autism is diagnosed. The baseless assumption that rates of autism diagnosis will continue into the stratosphere is dumbfounding.

The bottom line is that the crank magnetism is strong in Dr. Seneff. She’s antivaccine and anti-GMO. She is full of Dunning-Kruger, thinking that she can transfer her computer science and artificial intelligence knowledge to knowledge of epidemiology, biochemistry, and medicine. She can’t.

 

[KingOrfeo]

AZMotherlover made a joke.

Definitely.

 

[phrodeau]

I sure wish we knew more about the long-term effects of such pesticides. It would have been nice to know before we started using them what they'll do to us in the future.

 

[Curmudgeonly]

I sure wish we knew more about the long-term effects of such pesticides. It would have been nice to know before we started using them what they'll do to us in the future.

Go jagoff to "Silent Spring..."

 

[rosco rathbone]

It must be more than a coincidence that autism is massively on the rise just as the economy demands huge numbers of new tech geniuses to work 24 hour workdays making apps, disruptive computer stuff, and the like. It sounds somewhat mystical, but humanity has a way of adapting to the times and putting forth the human types that are called for by the exigencies of the day.

 

[Que]

It must be more than a coincidence that autism is massively on the rise just as the economy demands huge numbers of new tech geniuses to work 24 hour workdays making apps, disruptive computer stuff, and the like. It sounds somewhat mystical, but humanity has a way of adapting to the times and putting forth the human types that are called for by the exigencies of the day.

The citation in the OP is nonsense, of course, but I do like your take above on adaptation of the species. Humankind has a tendency towards hubris. We like to think we are as evolved as we could ever be. That cannot possibly be true.

I worry unnecessarily at times about the subsidization of failure to thrive. Unnecessary because bright minds come from their ranks as well.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

It must be more than a coincidence that autism is massively on the rise just as the economy demands huge numbers of new tech geniuses to work 24 hour workdays making apps, disruptive computer stuff, and the like. It sounds somewhat mystical, but humanity has a way of adapting to the times and putting forth the human types that are called for by the exigencies of the day.

It's much more likely that the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is more prevalent, not the actual incidence of ASD. In the 1960s and 1970s, autism was essentially considered a form of psychosis akin to childhood schizophrenia, and the prevailing conventional wisdom was that it could largely be related to parenting styles (Blame the parents).

Add to this the fact that many other childhood developmental disorders (Aspergers for example) have been lumped into the Autism Spectrum along with the more conventional classic "Autistic" diagnosis. It's no surprise that the number of diagnosis have gone up as we have begun to better understand these conditions.

 

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[phrodeau]

Go jagoff to "Silent Spring..."

Eat shit.

Because that all there is to eat, thanks to Monsanto.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The citation in the OP is nonsense, of course, but I do like your take above on adaptation of the species. Humankind has a tendency towards hubris. We like to think we are as evolved as we could ever be. That cannot possibly be true.

I worry unnecessarily at times about the subsidization of failure to thrive. Unnecessary because bright minds come from their ranks as well.

Except no such things is happening. If anything the exact opposite is true and it's becoming increasingly difficult to thrive. No longer can some idiot just get by via hard work like was true for pretty much every generation prior to ours. Today you need to be genuinely gifted not just stubborn.

As for evolved that's one of those things that's neither true nor untrue. People have a bad habit of not understanding how evolution works thinking that it's a process going that's working towards something better when that's not true. If the planet floods I'm no where near as evolved as a shark for example. Take away all our fancy tech and I'm no where near as well equipped as a wolf for feeding myself or surviving the night. We are pretty damn good at surviving the current world though.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Except no such things is happening. If anything the exact opposite is true and it's becoming increasingly difficult to thrive. No longer can some idiot just get by via hard work like was true for pretty much every generation prior to ours. Today you need to be genuinely gifted not just stubborn.

As for evolved that's one of those things that's neither true nor untrue. People have a bad habit of not understanding how evolution works thinking that it's a process going that's working towards something better when that's not true. If the planet floods I'm no where near as evolved as a shark for example. Take away all our fancy tech and I'm no where near as well equipped as a wolf for feeding myself or surviving the night. We are pretty damn good at surviving the current world though.

It doesn't take evolution to be able to hunt your own food or survive the night without modern conveniences. It only takes the willingness to learn how to do so.

 

[Sean Renaud]

It doesn't take evolution to be able to hunt your own food or survive the night without modern conveniences. It only takes the willingness to learn how to do so.

It certainly makes it a lot easier which was the point. Evolution is not, strictly speaking, a process of moving towards perfection. It's about being well suited for your current environment, nothing more and nothing less.