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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 14 Jan \ parent \ on: Children Are Getting Sick, Dying in Huge Numbers Due to Chemicals and Plastics HealthAndFitness
The one thing I would say is a hard metric to use is autism. Now that we have it on a spectrum and we know so much about it we are able to diagnosis people. Same with ADHD we used to chalk it up to different things.
The improvement in medical tech cuts both ways in that it can inflate numbers that otherwise wouldn’t be as high if we used the diagnostic ways of 100 years ago.
That being said microplastics are a huge huge issue that we won’t know the true result of for decades. Same with PFAS, seed oils, and numerous medications. It’s tough we got stuff we know that works or brings food to the masses but it’s going to have a cost we don’t fully comprehend yet.
As Thomas Sowell says "There are no solutions. There are only tradeoffs."
I'm sure you're right about increased diagnoses (as in, I know for a fact that's true), but I'm very skeptical that it explains the orders of magnitude increases. The other part is that we aren't just talking about marginal cases. The rise of serious cases that would definitely have been recorded as something is very large.
The bottom line is that we are clearly sicker than we used to be, despite having come up with many cures and treatments for the illnesses that used to plague us.
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