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Recently published in theBMJ:
Findings suggest that an offspring's risk of autism spectrum disorder increases following prenatal exposure to ambient pesticides within 2000 m of their mother's residence during pregnancy, compared with offspring of women from the same agricultural region without such exposure. Infant exposure could further increase risks for autism spectrum disorder with comorbid intellectual disability.
Risk of autism spectrum disorder was associated with prenatal exposure to glyphosate (odds ratio 1.16, 95% confidence interval 1.06 to 1.27), chlorpyrifos (1.13, 1.05 to 1.23), diazinon (1.11, 1.01 to 1.21), malathion (1.11, 1.01 to 1.22), avermectin (1.12, 1.04 to 1.22), and permethrin (1.10, 1.01 to 1.20).
For autism spectrum disorder with intellectual disability, estimated odds ratios were higher (by about 30%) for prenatal exposure to glyphosate (1.33, 1.05 to 1.69), chlorpyrifos (1.27, 1.04 to 1.56), diazinon (1.41, 1.15 to 1.73), permethrin (1.46, 1.20 to 1.78), methyl bromide (1.33, 1.07 to 1.64), and myclobutanil (1.32, 1.09 to 1.60); exposure in the first year of life increased the odds for the disorder with comorbid intellectual disability by up to 50% for some pesticide substances.
This story has been kicking around for over 10 years, my first recollection of it was an Italian study I read back in 2007, though this is the first time I have seen Permethrin implicated as a risk factor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 22 2019, @07:44PM (6 children)
I'm not an anti-vaccer. But your inability to spell does not prove or diaprove the possibility that an ingredient in at least one vaccine may increase risk of autism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 22 2019, @07:51PM
Yooz lies! Stops da liein! Da vaxin mayk yu stooped!
Das wye yooz gots no anglech laikes me!
yooz needz sum drogs!
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday March 22 2019, @07:59PM (2 children)
True, but your post does not prove or disprove the possibility that a teapot is circling the sun somewhere between the orbits of Earth and Mars, which is too small to be observed by telescopes.
[In case you don't get the reference, you may want to look up Bertrand Russell, and you may want to realize the burden of proof lies on a person making an assertion, not on everyone else to disprove random things.]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 22 2019, @08:03PM (1 child)
That's quite true. What GP's post *does* prove is that Poe's Law is in full effect. More's the pity.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday March 22 2019, @08:11PM
Shirley you meant to say, "G.E. Moore's the pity." There's just something about naive realism and Poe's Law that go together like toast and Marmite.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 22 2019, @08:01PM (1 child)
Clearly we need to remove the pesticides that are used in vaccines.
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday March 22 2019, @09:17PM
Smart idea and I've been saying that for years. You can start with the Thimeral. Keep vaccines in Refrigerator and THROW AWAY when they spoil, don't fill tiny babies with Mercury!!!!