Exploring the Causes of the Rise in Children’s Behavioral Issues

My two older kids recently finished summer jobs as camp counselors. They worked in separate states but remarked on the same situation: a significant number of kids around age eight are behaving strangely. My kids felt that 2 in every 10 of their campers could be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

I have observed the same trend in my second-grader’s peer group. Kids are presenting with psychological problems in numbers unlike anything I recall from my own childhood.

I have some theories for why, none of which are mutually exclusive.

Coronavirus restrictions

Children in this cohort, during a critical developmental period, were shut out of school, locked in their homes, deprived of social interaction, and possibly masked/muzzled. I’d be permanently traumatized too.

Vaccines

Emerging theories about the impact of vaccines on zeta potential reveal how vaccines might cause children to experience microstrokes and brain injuries.  

Moms with snacks

One of the most irritating aspects of the modern playdate is the way one or more moms will arrive at the pool or playground — at any time of day — with a purse stuffed with ultraprocessed snacks. The kids aren’t even hungry, but a mom will start passing out bags of chips or mini-cookies or gummy candy. I don’t remember this round-the-clock force-feeding from my own childhood, and particularly not with synthetic food that is more appropriate for pig fodder. Whether it’s the chemicals, the impact of sugar on the gut biome, or the unwillingness to give kids’ digestive systems a break, this industrial sludge is inflicting damage.

Electromagnetic pollution

In his groundbreaking book The Body Electric, Dr. Robert Becker devoted several chapters to the dangers of electromagnetic radiation. Although the book was published in 1985, Dr. Becker lived in a world already buzzing with power lines, airport radar, radio broadcasts, and microwave ovens. Today, we’re also blasting fetuses and kids’ growing brains with 4G and 5G radio waves from cell towers.

You don’t need to be a neurophysiologist to believe Dr. Becker’s conclusions. You can just look at the intensity of the opposition to his work, the 1970s version of censorship and deplatforming. More than 35 years before the COVID debacle, Dr. Becker wrote:

I want the general public to know that science isn’t run the way they read about it in the newspapers and magazines. I want lay people to understand that they cannot automatically accept scientists’ pronouncements at face value, for too often they’re self-serving and misleading … The way it’s currently funded and evaluated, we’re learning more and more about less and less, and science is becoming our enemy instead of our friend.

In 2010, Dr. Samuel Milham, a chronic disease epidemiologist, published a sequel of sorts called Dirty Electricity. While the focus of this book was the tight correlation between electrification and diseases of civilization, Dr. Milham wrote a few pages about the association between children’s behavioral problems and high-frequency energy.

Dr. Milham recounted one story about a fourth-grade classroom in California with off-the-charts Graham/Stetzer units (a measure of electrical pollution). The classroom teacher complained incessantly that her students were hyperactive and unteachable. After remediation with some plug-in filters, the teacher reported an immediate dramatic improvement in student behavior.  

One obvious question regarding our children’s declining health is: why does no one care about the impact of Big Pharma, Big Food, and Big Phone? This national emergency is shrugged off by almost everyone in a position to do something.

Well, perhaps we can’t care. In The Body Electric, Dr. Becker speculated that electromagnetic radiation could be used to control behavior without anyone sensing it. He explained how in 1970 Yale professor José Delgado used electrical stimulation of the brain to make a cat lick its surroundings compulsively, and have a monkey perform tricks repeatedly. Dr. Becker wrote that future research would enable scientists — or geopolitical villains — to produce in people specific thoughts or moods, engage in mind control, and implement “tyranny without terror.”  

Maybe such devices are now active. Just look at the way most of the U.S. population marched into more than 670 million doses of the dangerous and ineffective COVID vaccine.

In any event, Dr. Becker noted that bioelectric beams aren’t necessary for widespread programming of the population. He said that in our homes, we already have the television functioning as a force for mass psychosis.