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Ed Yong's (justifiably profane) response sums up the feeling of anyone who has looked into headlines such as these before. The cheerleader for the "technology causes autism" hypothesis, professor Susan Greenfield has been handed smackdown after smackdown by experts in their fields including Dr. Ben Goldacre and professor Dorothy Bishop (and half of the scientists on Twitter). One particularly obvious flaw in Greenfield's hypothesis was that autism appears long before children begin using computers (or smartphones for that matter.)
coffeesp00ns · 3594 days ago · link ·
No shit, Autism is mostly genetic and high heritable.
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