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Up until yesterday, the official autism narrative was that autism is 100% genetic, a GIFT, and anyone who says otherwise is a NUTTER who must banned from polite society.
Today's NY Times:
"But genetic mutations still only explain about 30 percent of cases, typically those with the most severe forms of the disorder."
So, not 100%, not half, not even a third of autism cases are genetic. That's a MASSIVE paradigm shift. Next:
"Dr. Audrey Brumback, a pediatric neurologist at the University of Texas at Austin, said she offers genetic testing to most of the patients she diagnoses with autism even though, as she cautions the parents, a relevant genetic mutation will be found in only one out of four cases."
One out of four is 25%, so they're already backing away from the 30% claim. And THEN:
"A landmark publication in 2007 showed that children with autism were much more likely to have so-called de novo mutations, spontaneous mutations that were not present in their mother’s or father’s genome."
Oh, so these children are NOT getting these genes from their parents (that's what we usually mean when we say a condition is "genetic"). Instead these are de novo genetic mutations that are only found in the child with autism. Do you know what else causes de novo genetic mutations? TOXICANTS.
So that narrows the possibilities down considerably. Autism is not genetic (that's not me talking now, that's the NY Times). The most likely toxic exposures are vaccines, SSRIs, Tylenol, pesticides, fire retardants, plastics, EMF/RFR — all the toxicants that I reviewed in my 2019 doctoral thesis.
What do I win for figuring this out 6 years ago and publishing the definitive systematic review of the causation literature? Since then I've been hunted, censored, and economically blacklisted for telling the obvious TRUTH about the origins of autism.
Lots of people including the NY Times, WaPo, BMJ, Springer/Nature, USA Today, Reuters, AP, and Politico owe me an APOLOGY. Now let's get to work banning the toxicants that increase autism risk.