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July 6, 2025Opinion | Autism Rates Have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That. – The New York Times
July 6, 2025https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/opinion/why-autism-rates-increased.html
Autism Rates Have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That.
June 23, 2025
By Allen Frances
Dr. Frances is a psychiatrist. He led the American Psychiatric Association’s task force charged with creating the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services, is correct that reported autism rates have exploded in the last 30 years — they’ve increased roughly 60-fold — but he is dead wrong about the causes. I should know, because I am partly responsible for the explosion in rates.
The rapid rise in autism cases is not because of vaccines or environmental toxins, but rather is the result of changes in the way that autism is defined and assessed — changes that I helped put into place.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was the chair of the task force charged with creating the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the D.S.M.-IV. Sometimes called the “bible of psychiatry,” the D.S.M. influences medical practice, insurance coverage, education and treatment selection.
In the third edition of the D.S.M., published in 1980, autism was tightly defined and considered extremely rare. Criteria for the diagnosis required a very early onset (before age 3) of severe cognitive, interpersonal, emotional and behavioral problems.
But my task force approved the inclusion of the new diagnosis, Asperger’s disorder, which is much milder in severity than classic autism and much more common. In doing so, we were responding to child psychiatrists’ and pediatricians’ concerns for children who did not meet the extremely stringent criteria for classic autism, but had similar symptoms in milder form and might benefit from services.
Based on careful studies, our task force predicted that the addition of Asperger’s disorder would modestly increase the rate of children given an autism-related diagnosis. Instead, the rate increased more than 16-fold, to one in 150 from an estimated one in 2,500 in the span of a decade. It has been climbing more gradually ever since and is one in 31 today. Our intentions were good, but we underestimated the enormous unintended consequences of adding the new diagnosis. “}}
The Particular Ways That Being Rich Screws You Up
July 6, 2025https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/07/how-produce-poor-little-rich-kid/678871/
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A flush Zelig purchased prime Middle Rock real estate: a lush 16-acre waterfront estate that would come to encompass a stately white-brick main house, several caretaker cottages, a pool, a tennis court, a greenhouse, and access to the Sound. He married a formidable woman named Phyllis. When Zelig died, their son Carl took over the factory. Soon after following in his father’s professional footsteps, Carl married Ruth, …
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