The main thing to know this time around is that the whole crazy ‘what is causing the rise in autism?’ debacle is over actual nothing. There is no rise in autism. There is only a rise in the diagnosis of autism.

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Autism Speaks

It has not, however, risen in prevalence.

The entire shift in the rate of diagnosis of autism is explained by expanding the criteria and diagnosing it more often. Nothing actually changed.

We already knew that vaccines don’t cause autism, and that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, but now we know such things on an entirely different level.

I admit that this result confirms all of my priors and thus I might be insufficiently skeptical of it, but there are a lot of people with what we in 2026 call autism that are out there, they love [...]

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Outline:

(00:23) Autism Speaks

(04:42) Exercise Is Awesome

(06:41) That's Peanuts

(07:09) An Age Of Wonders

(08:05) GLP-1s In Particular

(09:09) The Superheroes

(10:32) The Supervillains

(14:21) FDA Delenda Est

(16:35) Hansonian Medicine

(18:13) Hospital Strategy 101

(18:58) Mental Hospital Strategy 101

(21:04) Drugs Are Bad, Mmmkay?

(21:10) The Lighter Side

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