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In reply to the discussion: N.J. autism rate soared in 4 years [View all]fasttense
(17,301 posts)13. Yes chemicals like lead
Lead is everywhere in our environment because it was added to gasoline (though it has been banned). It settled everywhere and gets kicked up especially on hot days. The damage to children from lead follows the poverty areas because that is where the largest concentration of gasoline use is found. Private planes still use lead based fuel so people near private airports are still at high risk. But if you do any renovations in your older home, you kick up that lead all over again.
Checkout Mother Jones article. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/05/lead-prisons-and-crack-explaining-drop-violent-crime
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Yep--hard to know. If we could remove the profit motive from the diagnostic piece, we might get
MADem
Dec 2012
#29
Ruled out by the article: "... 80-85% of children in the study had the most severe form of autism."
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2012
#3
The NYT is the last place to look for accurate reporting on the subject of autism, sadly.
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2012
#30
The speed of the increase is too great to attribute solely to increased parental age, Zahorodny said
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2012
#31