http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/80208 37.stm
Autism has been blamed on everything from "refrigerator mothers" (a favorite of psychiatrists) to mercury fillings, in vaccines, etc. (a favorite of a certain segment of the population who like to blame everything that goes wrong with us on allopathic medicine and dentistry, even car accidens and Acts of God). While it seems likely that these geneticists really have found something fundamental about the causes of autism, that doesn't mean that most people will accept it. If they did, they'd lose their favorite scapegoats.
Autism has been blamed on everything from "refrigerator mothers" (a favorite of psychiatrists) to mercury fillings, in vaccines, etc. (a favorite of a certain segment of the population who like to blame everything that goes wrong with us on allopathic medicine and dentistry, even car accidens and Acts of God). While it seems likely that these geneticists really have found something fundamental about the causes of autism, that doesn't mean that most people will accept it. If they did, they'd lose their favorite scapegoats.
