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The 42 · 08-21-2006, 05:57 PM

There has been a marked increase in cases of Autism in the past couple of decades. Incidencies of PDD and other similar disabilities have increased in incredible amounts.

So have incidences of Asthma, ADD, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, retardation, various deadly allergies such as the peanut allergy, among many other diseases and disorders.

There are so many possible explanations to this weird phenomenon, but it's most likely because of a combination of a bunch of things: more pollution, more synthetic foods, increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics, all the other lovely gifts of living in the twentith/twenty-first century.

Part of it is probably better diagnostics and more alarmist doctors, but definitely not all.

Thank god we at least now have the tools to deal with all these issues, but then, who knows if the tools themselves are contributing to the problem in some oblique way?

08-21-2006, 05:57 PM	#5
The 42 I'm not lurking, I'm stalking YOU! Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Somwhere over the rainbow Posts: 70	There has been a marked increase in cases of Autism in the past couple of decades. Incidencies of PDD and other similar disabilities have increased in incredible amounts. So have incidences of Asthma, ADD, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, retardation, various deadly allergies such as the peanut allergy, among many other diseases and disorders. There are so many possible explanations to this weird phenomenon, but it's most likely because of a combination of a bunch of things: more pollution, more synthetic foods, increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics, all the other lovely gifts of living in the twentith/twenty-first century. Part of it is probably better diagnostics and more alarmist doctors, but definitely not all. Thank god we at least now have the tools to deal with all these issues, but then, who knows if the tools themselves are contributing to the problem in some oblique way? Last edited by The 42; 08-21-2006 at 06:01 PM.