WHY WERE THE RESULTS OF OLD DADS SURVEY NEVER PUBLISHED? COULD IT BE THAT AUTISM SPEAKS WAS INVOLVED IN ASD-CARC NEVER REVEALING PATERNAL AGE DATA

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RESULTS OF THE OLDER DADS STUDY?


WHY WERE THE BAR GRAPHS OF RESPONDERS REMOVED?


The data from the OLD DADS STUDY WAS removed from the web site?

Who runs the ASD-CARC?


When the Reichenberg study came out they seemed genuinely interested in the OLD DADS study and got a tremendous immediate response from the autism community. Why was it never published? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DATA? Did the data show that advancing paternal age and non-familial autism go closely hand in hand?





Older Dads and Autism Survey
Update: Sept 13 2006
The research study by Reichenberg et al (2006) attracted a lot of attention from both the scientific community and the autism community, with many comments supporting and others criticising the results. Such a reaction is important because it helps us to explore new areas of research and to design better studies.
Our Older Dads and Autism Survey is not a rigorous scientific study. BUT we are trying to see whether there is merit in conducting a more in-depth study. This survey taught us many things - the most important of which is that so many families want to participate in research to find answers. Within one hour and 20 minutes of posting, we had 100 responses! By the end of the first day (only 7 hours), we had 300! The word has spread and you helped make that happen - Thank you. We had more than 1000 responses in only 5 days! We are sharing some of those findings with you now, and the analysis of our results will be posted early next week. Please continue to invite others to participate and we hope that you will come back to participate in other surveys.

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Funded by among other agencies NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM RESEARCH AND AUTISM SPEAKS both groups are not interested in preventing autism through diseminating the knowledge that the risks of autism rise greatly as paternal age increases past the age of 32. They do not spread the word that the risk of autism is much higher if the parents or very close relatives have autoimmune disorders such as diabetes type 1, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimotos thyroiditus, MS, etc.