Showing posts with label bizarre autism hypotheses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bizarre autism hypotheses. Show all posts
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Bizarre Things Purported to Cause Autism: Hormonal Contraceptives

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: An article published last winter in Medical Hypotheses suggests that long-term use of hormonal contraceptives might rais...
Friday, January 23, 2015

An Incomplete List of Things that Have Been Postulated, In Earnest, as Possible Causes of Autism

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(Note: Not all of these ideas are crank hypotheses; some of them are, a few were widely accepted in their day but are now regarded as crank ...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Bizarre Things Purported to Cause Autism: Glyphosate in Pesticides

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is the first of two posts dealing with the claim by MIT researcher Stephanie Seneff that a chemical found in Monsan...
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Most Bizarre Autism Hypothesis Yet

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Banner ad for a video and ebook promising to explain how "Global Elite Uses Vaccines to Create Autism", and also "How Autis...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Blaming the Patriarchy for Autistic Children

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There's a brief passage in Betty Friedan's landmark study of American housewives in the 1950s and '60s, The...
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Friday, January 4, 2013

One More Air-Pollution Study

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In the last post I confused this study  ( PDF ) with an earlier one by the same group of researchers ; I wrote about the earlier one, but l...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Bizarre Things Purported to Cause Autism: Early Exposure to Air Pollution

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A quick note: my (very) occasional "Bizarre Things..." series was never intended solely as a crank roundup. No, in my mind I reso...
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