Guess the number of comments @ NJ.COM on "Autism continues to climb, with NJ rates now the highest"

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30. You are defending an abstract concept without noticing its application changes over time & location.

This is not a simplistic situation, as confirmed by the CDC in this excerpt from their website. More at link. And, by the way, you may be in the Sunstein camp, I'm with the FLOTUS. Her speech followed his crushing editorial and left me elated.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101688193#post4

Dr Wharton brings tremendous expertise & her customary wisdom & calm to complex leadership demands..."

In a 15-minute speech she (FLOTUS) delivered before a mix of American students studying at Peking University and Chinese students who have studied in the United States, she called on young people to be “citizen diplomats” and stressed the importance of the free flow of ideas over the Internet and through the media.

“That's how we discover the truth,” she said to the crowd of about 200, which included a handful of officials from major universities in the U.S. and China. “That’s how we learn what’s really happening in our communities, our country and our world. And that’s how we decide which values and ideas we think are best — by questioning and debating them vigorously.”