Not really that simple - learning disorders, ADD etc. are more prevalent due to better diagnosis techniques; when we stigmatised and didn't bother to look for learning and mental health disorders until very recently, it's no surprising that their diagnosis is going up since we started to take them seriously.

Cancer rates are increasing, but again - the breast cancer incidence is rising particularly in women age 65-69; aka the group recently included in the screening programme; likewise age - we're living longer than we used to and it's worth noting that the risk goes up as you get older; breast cancer for instance, at age 29 you've a risk of 1 in 2000, going up to 1 in 50 by the time you reach 49. The biggest risk factor for cancer is age - in the uk, more than 75% of people diagnosed with cancer are over 60 (http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2015/02/04/why-are-cancer-rates-increasing/) and the incidence in the over 80s is 2,500 in 100,000 - so, as our life expectancy grows, so does our cancer risk.

Original post by SeaPony

Scuttled back under your rock of ignorance? Thought so.

Stones, glass houses.

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Reply 64

SeaPony

Your argument on cancer is flawed, do children smoke and drink? Even when child cancer is increasing as well? Autism is predicted to increase, why? Cancer is predicted to increase in all age groups, why?

You are just parroting the media in their flawed explanations. As far as I know 100 years ago there were people many people in fact that reached the age of 50 or above?

Reply 65

jf1994

Who cares what this shouty nobody says or does? He may be popular in the southern US where a good percentage of the population are clinically retarded, but not in a civilised country like ours.

Reply 66

SeaPony

Original post by jf1994

Who cares what this shouty nobody says or does? He may be popular in the southern US where a good percentage of the population are clinically retarded, but not in a civilised country like ours.

He is popular in many places he visits, whether that be here or in Australia. Then again you will probably deny he even travels and that he can read. Typical prejudice against people that live in southern states. I count that as racism.

Reply 67

jf1994

Original post by SeaPony

I said his audience were retarded, not him. As I've said before, he's a very intelligent man. He knows how to exploit world affairs to generate the maximum amount of fear and anger among easily-manipulated minds. He's gotten very rich off of it.

You don't know what racism is.

Reply 68

SeaPony

Original post by jf1994

I guess you leftists only think racism is when a white person offends a non white person? Thought so.

Very rich? While he exposes criminal banks stealing trillions you are concerned over a man who employs over 50 people that makes millions a year and spends millions a year to maintain his media operation? You don't know what 'rich' is.

Reply 69

jf1994

Original post by SeaPony

I'm not a leftist, sweetheart :L

If I was racist I would have labelled the entire southern population retarded, which I didn't do. Racist is discrimination directed at an ENTIRE race, and since southern Americans are not racially distinct from northern Americans, I'm sure you'll now agree that I'm not racist.

I cannot argue with someone intolerant of the idea of any possibility that one man has the capacity to lie and mislead.

Reply 70

SeaPony

Okay lets turn it around. A good percentage of people in Africa are clinically retarded. Racist or not?

Reply 71

SeaPony

Original post by jf1994

Oh of course he could be lying I don't trust anyone 100%, but the factual evidence (that are not from his website btw) fit in with the wider picture of what is going on.

Reply 72

ExcitedPup

Original post by XcitingStuart

Rest of post is probably too true, though as an Advocate of the Devil, you should really specify in what way he is rightwing; in social values, or also in economical beliefs? (I guess social is a definite from other parts of your post.)

Both. He's on the extreme right fringe of the Tea Party, which is pretty darn loony

Reply 73

SeaPony

Original post by ExcitedPup

Both. He's on the extreme right fringe of the Tea Party, which is pretty darn loony

Again more name calling and no debate. Same old same old. Why reply?

Reply 74

ExcitedPup

Original post by SeaPony

Again more name calling and no debate. Same old same old. Why reply?

Are you denying he's on the right fringe of the Tea Party? If you deny that then you really have no clue about Alex Jones' politics

Reply 75

SeaPony

Original post by ExcitedPup

Are you denying he's on the right fringe of the Tea Party? If you deny that then you really have no clue about Alex Jones' politics

You said "Loony" that is name calling. Stop deflecting to try and make out I am denying where he stands on the political spectrum.

Reply 76

ExcitedPup

Original post by SeaPony

You said "Loony" that is name calling. Stop deflecting to try and make out I am denying where he stands on the political spectrum.

Don't you think that asserting that juice bottles are making people gay is crazy?

Do you believe there is an illuminati conspiracy running the world?

Reply 77

SeaPony

Original post by ExcitedPup

Don't you think that asserting that juice bottles are making people gay is crazy?

Do you believe there is an illuminati conspiracy running the world?

I already explained above about juice bottles to another person who has now scuttled off (if you can be bothered to read back, which I doubt).

The illuminati was real but now it has merged into a series of different organisations and round table groups.

Reply 78

Stiff Little Fingers

Original post by ExcitedPup

Are you denying he's on the right fringe of the Tea Party? If you deny that then you really have no clue about Alex Jones' politics

I wouldn't say he's on the right fringe. He's a tea-party type, but he occupies that weird little trench where the far right loops round and borders on the far left, where, so long as it's mad enough, he'll peddle it.