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The Plan to Find the Causes of Autism Is Doomed to Fail (www.psychologytoday.com)

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, I expect he'll get what he wants out of it: the ability to say it's partially genetic and use that as an excuse to roll out mandatory sterilisation to the list he got.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I expect him to link obesity and diabetes to autism because of the studies from Hopkins, and others, that have seen a 4x increased likelihood of autism if both parents are obese and have diabetes. A NIH study seems to refute that conclusion, but they didn't take into account diabetes and only looked at obesity.

What he would suggest being done about that is anybody's guess, but I would like to see HFCS to be greatly reduced from our diets.