[PEN-L:31561] Re: Autism on the rise

[Charles Jannuzi <b_rieux@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> For what it's worth, our son was conceived the
> old-fashioned way, with a
> "Tom Cat catheter" and no other artificial
> means. However, statistically
> speaking, it's quite possible that the issues
> of pregnancy late in the life
> span and of artificial means of fertilization
> may be behind the surge in the
> prevalence of autism. Of course, such phenomena
> can have, and usually do
> have, more than one cause: we shouldn't let the
> role of environmental toxins
> off the hook, while there is evidence for the
> existence of genetic
> predisposition, at least for the
> higher-functioning versions of autism

And we have to be careful to distinguish: causeS
in the rise of autism vs. causeS in the rise of
diagnosis and perception of autism.

C. Jannuzi

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