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0 pointsloeg4mo ago0 comments

It's a very recent story, but for example:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/first-defendant-charged-a...

The fraudulent provider(s) bribed parents to get their kids diagnosed autistic. As, a result, autism diagnoses of children in this community are ~3x the background rate:

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/10/10/research-finds-1-...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/researchers-find-alarming-...

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selimthegrim4mo ago

Interesting, my understanding was that the Somali parents were mad that their children’s autism, which wasn’t presenting the same way as the kind of standard Rain Man type of autism wasn’t being characterized correctly.

coryrc4mo ago

You were very wrong. Might want to consider where you get your news.

"Often, parents threatened to leave Smart Therapy and take their children to other autism centers if they did not get paid higher kickbacks. Several larger families left Smart Therapy after being offered larger kickbacks by other autism centers."

loegOP4mo ago

These can simply be different groups of Somali parents, for what it's worth. Presumably some Somali kids are truly autistic and not participating in the fraud scheme.

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