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Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

Columnist

Oct 14, 2026

45:23
[laughs]
45:24
And the plagiarism was not concealed.
45:27
Basically, the entire introduction, the entire methods, large parts of the discussion had just been copied from previous pieces of research that were publicly available online.
45:36
And so he sent, um...
45:38
And then the next thing Jack did was he, he went to look at the data for the study, 'cause it said the data is available online by request, and it- the data for this study was available, uh, on a link.
45:50
If you go to this website, it was this super dodgy website.
45:53
Uh, if you clicked on the link, there were a million ads, and it said, "Here's the data.

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57:53
Mm-hmm.
50:18
When we talk about the Health Secretary, RFK Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., what do you make of his personal crusade to reveal, to unearth the cause of autism?
50:29
So, when we talk about autism, what we're discussing isn't necessarily the sole cause of autism.
50:36
What, what, uh, certainly what RFK Jr., when he speaks, he's mostly discussing, uh, the increase in the rates of autism.
50:45
So if you look at the number of people who are autistic, if you look at the earliest studies of that, they were conducted in the '60s, uh, in the United States and also in the UK, and they estimated that around one in 2,000 children had autism, somewhere around five in 10,000 kids, give or take.
51:10
If you look at the most recent estimates, the number is now closer to one in 30 so somewhere it's just under 3% of children, um, would be diagnosed as autistic today.
51:23
So that's about a 60 times increase between the '60s and 2025.
51:29
But if you look at the history of autism, it's, it, it quickly becomes clear the main thing that's happened there.
25:22
When we talk about the Health Secretary RFK Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., what do you make of his personal crusade to reveal, to unearth the, the cause of autism?
25:34
So when we talk about autism, what we're discussing isn't necessarily the sole cause of autism.
25:40
What, what, uh, certainly what RFK Jr., when he speaks, he's mostly discussing, uh, the increase in the rates of autism.
25:50
So if you look at the number of people who are autistic, if you look at the earliest studies of that, they were conducted in the '60s, uh, in the United States and also in the UK, and they estimated that around 1 in 2,000 children had autism.
26:12
Somewhere around 5 in 10,000 kids, give or take.
26:16
If you look at the most recent estimates, the number is now closer to 1 in 30, so somewhere it's just under 3% of children, um, would be diagnosed as autistic today.
26:29
So that's about a 60 times increase between the '60s and 2025.
31:21
I mean, we saw that recently with this idea that Tylenol, uh, causes autism or that Tylenol can create problems in the pregnancy.

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