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Title: Denial
Condition: New
Format: Hardback
Subtitle: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future
Author: Mark Blaxill, Dan Olmsted
ISBN-10: 1510716947
EAN: 9781510716940
ISBN: 9781510716940
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Medicine
Edition: 1st
Release Date: 08/10/2017
Description: Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic.

The question is stark: Is autism ancient, a genetic variation that demands acceptance and celebration? Or is it new and disabling, triggered by something in the environment that is damaging more children every day?

Authors Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted believe autism is new, that the real rate is rising dramatically, and that those affected are injured and disabled, not merely neurodiverse.” They call the refusal to acknowledge this reality Autism Epidemic Denial. This epidemic denial blocks the urgent need to confront and stop the epidemic and endangers our kids, our country, and our future.

The key to stopping the epidemic, they say, is to stop lying about its history and start asking "who profits?" People who deny that autism is new have self-interested motives, such as ending research that might pinpoint responsibilityand, most threateningly, liability for this man-made epidemic.

Using ground-breaking research, the authors definitively debunk best-selling claims that autism is nothing newand nothing to worry about.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 476g
Type: Immunology
Release Year: 2017

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