This research and others like it is so vitally important to understand. Getting slowly poisoned because of poor policy decisions, lax regulations, and/or corporate greed isn’t some nefarious movie plot; it has happened and is happening all the time. Pollution is horrific for the environment and our health - things that are inextricably tied together, which environmentalists have been screaming about for decades to no avail.
This article has been posted here before. I’ll copy my previous comment: while this topic is super important, this article is nothing novel. Environment plus genetics has been the prevailing theory for a while. Aside from that, this article is a let down. We have a huge problem in the US with donors steering the direction of research instead of researchers. I would have loved to have seen a more comprehensive discussion of this, instead of a very troubling insinuation that the Human Genome Project was a waste of time and an impediment to other research. Also, the line about autism diagnoses seems wildly out of place. There is so much to say about autism (which would warrant so many books of its own), but touting a statistic about sky rocketing diagnoses without mentioning the role of greater awareness and changing diagnostic criteria feels poorly substantiated.
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sodabubbles1281 | a day ago
This research and others like it is so vitally important to understand. Getting slowly poisoned because of poor policy decisions, lax regulations, and/or corporate greed isn’t some nefarious movie plot; it has happened and is happening all the time. Pollution is horrific for the environment and our health - things that are inextricably tied together, which environmentalists have been screaming about for decades to no avail.
IcyAbbreviations1701 | a day ago
This article has been posted here before. I’ll copy my previous comment: while this topic is super important, this article is nothing novel. Environment plus genetics has been the prevailing theory for a while. Aside from that, this article is a let down. We have a huge problem in the US with donors steering the direction of research instead of researchers. I would have loved to have seen a more comprehensive discussion of this, instead of a very troubling insinuation that the Human Genome Project was a waste of time and an impediment to other research. Also, the line about autism diagnoses seems wildly out of place. There is so much to say about autism (which would warrant so many books of its own), but touting a statistic about sky rocketing diagnoses without mentioning the role of greater awareness and changing diagnostic criteria feels poorly substantiated.