Vaccination mediatic blitz

[Mummelmann]

Mr Khan said:

Mummelmann said:

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I see that more people have understood the possibility of diagnostics; I happen to work with kids for the past 1.5 years where many of them are in the autism spectrum, Aspberger is also common in this group. Almost all of them had other diagnosis to begin with; usually tied more directly into psychiatri, things such as anxiety, isolating behavior and even outbursts and fits of rage are often interpreted in many different ways.

It's the same with ADD; it is the go-to label for the kids that parents and/or teacher can't or don't want to handle, there is gross misuse of the term here in Scandinavia.

Yeah, it once was that you just had the weird kid (i was one of those, mind, though i never had any diagnosis of anything), and that was the end of it. Now everything has to be categorized. This is not a bad thing in itself, but then it leads people to think there is an "epidemic" of this or that disorder.

Too true, and that causes problems, like the one we're discussing here. I remember how bird flu and swine flu was going to kill tens of million as well; yet nothing much happened. Media reports on health and disease should be either covered by or approved by some sort of panel or person(s) who have actual insights in these fields. Tech reports, sports coverage and even something as unimportant as celebrities and entertainment has specialists who are very well versed on their respective subjects but it seems like they let any old fool cover health issues (I should know, my girlfriend's father is a medical freelance journalist and writes about stuides, he says that almost everyone he has worked with were clueless and so were their editorial staff).