Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future
By (Author) Mark Blaxill
By (author) Dan Olmsted
Skyhorse Publishing
Skyhorse Publishing
25th July 2017
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Autism and Aspergers Syndrome
Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
Paediatric medicine
Public health and preventive medicine
Physical Properties
Hardback
224
Width 156mm, Height 235mm, Spine 28mm
476g
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.
Author Bio
Mark Blaxill is the father of a daughter diagnosed with autism. He has authored peer-reviewed articles on time trends in autism and founded advocacy groups to spur action. He co-wrote two books with Dan OlmstedThe Age of Autism and Vaccines 2.0and is editor with Dan Olmsted of the widely read AgeofAutism.com. He received degrees from Princeton University and the Harvard Business School. He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dan Olmsted was an award-winning journalist, co-editor of AgeOfAutism.com, and co-author, with Mark Blaxill, of two books. He was a former editor at USA Today, USA Weekend, and United Press International and a graduate of Yale University.
