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00:00their number they went back in 2000 and found that they had missed exactly one
00:04child doctors and therapists in the past were not stupid they weren't missing all
00:12these cases the epidemic is real between 1959 and 1965 researchers from 14
00:26hospitals associated with major universities undertook the national
00:31collaborative perinatal project tracking 30,000 children from birth to age
00:36eight this was no half-baked survey based analysis the study conducted nine
00:44separate screenings covering neurology psychology speech language hearing and
00:50visual function every developmental quirk anomaly and disorder was logged
00:55with painstaking detail autism condition characterized by profound impairments
01:02in social communication and behavior would have stood out like a fashion like a
01:07neon sign there were 14 cases as 4.7 per 10,000 so we know what the historic
01:18numbers are and we know what the numbers are today and it's time for everybody to
01:24stop attributing this to this ideology of epidemic denial and was in in 2009 the
01:37California state legislature charged the mind Institute at UC Davis with with because
01:46this myth was already becoming pervasive the myth of epidemic denial was already
01:52becoming pervasive in the mainstream media the California legislature directed the mind Institute at UC Davis to answer the question and
02:03Irva Hertz-Picciotto was a highly esteemed revered scientist neurology and epidemiologist came back with a definitive answer the epidemic is real only a very very small portion of it can be changed a better record can be charged a better recognition
02:20or better diagnostic criteria I want to say a couple of other things there are many many other studies that affirm this and instead of listening to
02:27to to to to this this is a canard of epidemic denial all you have to do is start reading a little science because the answer is very clear and this is catastrophic for our country if there's a recent study by Blaxel et al and a team of other researchers has said that the cost of treating autism in this country is a
02:32by 2035 so within 10 years will be a trillion dollars a year and then after 10 years and then every year after 10 years what we'll do is one another thing that comes from the world to be able to have done that
02:41all you have to do is start reading a little science from the world to to overcome this conversation
02:44and the answer is very clear and this is catastrophic for our country if there's a
02:50recent study by Blaxel et al and a team of other researchers said that the cost of treating autism in this country by 2035 so within 10 years will be a
03:01trillion dollars a year. This is added to already astronomical health care costs.
03:06And then there is an individual injury. These are kids that this is a
03:12preventable disease. We know it's an environmental exposure. It has to be.
03:17Genes do not cause epidemics. They can provide a vulnerability. You need an
03:23environmental toxin. And Irva Hertz-Pachoda pointed out that because of this
03:33mythology, that the amount of money and resources put into studying
03:42genetic causes, which is a dead end, has been historically 10 to 20 times the
03:49amount to spent by NIH and other agencies to study environmental factors, to study
03:56exposures, to study external factors. And that's where we're going to find the
04:01answer. This is an individual tragedy as well. Autism destroys families. More
04:09importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which are children. These are
04:14children who should not be who should not be suffering like this. These are kids
04:19who many of them were fully functional and regressed because of some
04:25environmental exposure into autism when they're two years old. And these are kids
04:32who will never pay taxes. They'll never hold a job. I'll never play baseball. They'll
04:40never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a
04:46toilet unassisted. And we have to recognize we are doing this to our
04:52children. And we need to put an end to it. And I think I'm going to have Walter
04:59Zaha Rodney, who is the most senior researcher for this project for ADDM, and who's been
05:08doing this for many years, to come up and say a little.
05:20Good morning. Thank you for being here. I'm here as a long-term autism researcher and a
05:26clinical psychologist. I get to wear two hats, one with patients and families, trying to help
05:33them get to a diagnosis and to interventions and treatments. But also for the last 20-plus years,
05:41as the director of the New Jersey Autism Study, which is a CDC-sponsored autism surveillance system,
05:50we've monitored autism in New Jersey in concert with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since
05:57since 2000. When we began our endeavor with CDC, we expected to do maybe two or three baseline
06:06studies to establish how many children have autism, because it was not expected that autism prevalence
06:13would increase. Other childhood disabilities, neurologic disorders do not increase or change
06:19over time. But somehow, for some reason, with autism, everything was different. Autism went from being
06:29a very unusual, rare disability, which affected, as the secretary said, one child in maybe 10,000,
06:38to being known in every community, every school district, every center that cares for children with
06:45disabilities. Autism is real. It's a true disability. It's not a personality, a quirky issue. Everything
06:57is changed for the individual with autism. And while there's a wide range of expression, it does change the
07:05family, and it does inevitably change the community and the society in which we find it. Autism prevalence,
07:15prevalence has increased very dramatically. It's increased in New Jersey, where we have
07:21excellent resources and access to services, and it's increased in all the states in the network. It's increased not
07:30only by the CDC, ADAM network, active surveillance activities, but it's increased according to
07:38federal IDEA statistics and information from a multitude of surveys.
07:46It is a true increase. There is better awareness of autism, but better awareness of autism cannot be driving
07:55disability like autism to increase by 300 percent in 20 years.
08:00That's what we saw in New Jersey. That's what the CDC report of yesterday indicates. And that's what, in my opinion, future
08:10reports from epidemiologists will show. The data provided in yesterday's report strongly suggests that not only is
08:20this a high point of autism prevalence, but in the future rates can only be higher.
08:29Autism
08:30Autism deserves to be treated as a real public health phenomenon, and I would say is an urgent public
08:41health crisis. It's not just that we're more astute or perceptive. It's not like these, it's not like two or
08:51three children out of, uh, for everyone with autism has remained invisible. Uh, autism is striking,
09:00and the consequences are lifelong. So I would urge, uh, everyone to consider the likelihood that autism,
09:09uh, whether we call it an epidemic, uh, tsunami or a surge of autism is a real thing that we don't understand,
09:18and it must be triggered or caused by environmental or risk factors.
09:23Uh, we need to address this question seriously because, in my opinion, uh, for the last 20 years,
09:32we've collected data but not made real progress in understanding of what causes autism or how to effectively
09:40prevent it or treat it effectively. So I urge you to read the report very carefully. I urge you to do something
09:49that nobody does and go into the many supplemental tables and see, uh, that autism is a true phenomenon
09:58and that we need a correct perception, not a perception that allows us to, uh, uh, just provide services
10:08without understanding the root causes or the, uh, true factors at play. So thank you for your attention.
10:15I wish we could answer questions. I think we can. Let me, let me just say one other thing. Um,
10:25I read a, I referred to a number of studies. There are many, many, many others in the scientific
10:31literature that absolutely explode this mythology that this is, uh, you know, that the autism epidemic
10:39is not real. If you read the literature, it is absolutely, uh, it is absolutely, uh, indefensible
10:51to continue to promote this. And, but it doesn't take you to read the literature.
10:57It just takes a little common sense. If autism, if the epidemic is an artifact,
11:02uh, a better diagnostic criteria or better, uh, recognition, then why are we not seeing it in older
11:10people? Why is this only happening in young people? You know, I asked Walter, before we came out here,
11:17I said, have you ever seen anybody our age? I'm 71 years old with full blown autism, head banging,
11:25uh, nonverbal, non-toilet trained, stimming, toe walking, these other stereotypical features.
11:35Where are these people walking around the mall? You can't find them. They're not in homes. There
11:40are no homes for them. There are no institutions for them. Why are we seeing them on the street?
11:47Anybody can look around and see that this is a canard. And then you have to ask yourself,
11:54why is it so pervasive? Why has it been thrown up against us for so many years?
12:01And clearly there are industries. This is coming from an environmental toxin,
12:06and somebody made a profit by putting that environmental toxin into our air, our water,
12:11our medicines, our food. And it's to their benefit to say, oh, to normalize it, to say, oh,
12:18this is all normal. It's always been here. But that's not good for our country.
12:24And it's not good for the press to not be more inquisitive, to not be more skeptical.
12:32And within three weeks, and probably we're hoping in two weeks,
12:37we're going to announce a series of new studies to identify precisely what the environmental toxins
12:45are that are causing it. This has not been done before. And we're going to do it in a thorough and
12:51comprehensive way. And we're going to get back with an answer to the American people very, very quickly.
12:56Secretary Kennedy. Great. Thank you.
12:59Yeah, go ahead. Secretary Kennedy, I was not diagnosed with autism in my
13:04initiative, and it took me five years to get diagnosed later. You also talked about the fact
13:10that the numbers increased with black and Latino people, but even your own studies, your own studies,