(November 21, 2024 at 11:34 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: I don't know what the cause of rising rates of autism are, though the reasonable answer is it has to do with the hundreds of petrochemical and other heavy industry products that end up in our food, water, air and on our skin. Taking mercury out of our medicines, even if it didn't fix the problem, is still the right move; ask the Chinese and the Venetians how mercury medicine goes....
Meanwhile, in the real world, people are actually studying the causes of autism and, well, we don't have a firm answer, but what we've been able to find suggests that the causes of autism lean pretty heavily towards genetics.
And why do the rates of autism diagnoses go up? Because we know more about it. The term wasn't even coined until the 1940s, and it remained an obscure condition until the late Eighties. And it took a few more decades until the average layman started to figure out that we don't all act like this:
The consensus is that the actual incidence of autism isn't actually increasing. It's just getting better understood.
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