Shifting blame before people learn it's for a large part fossil fuel pollution causing autism, and the administration is going to do more drill baby drill.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago

That assumes there's an increase in the prevalence of autism vs an increase in the awareness of the prevalence of autism. I.E. did it actually increase or does it just look that way because we have better diagnostic criteria and no longer shove people into institutions to hide them from the world (as much).

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Got any evidence of that? IIRC, agricultural fields have been correlated with autism, but I am not aware of any specifically tying it to petrochemicals.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.4c05563

Particle matter is the issue