Posted on 01/07/2008 4:23:06 PM PST by shrinkermd
Ahhh, an intelligent, informative, objective post. What are you some kind of a crank?
Fair enough...my point in the post was that the numbers are all over the place, not that I believed it. I can't find the reference, but considering the quality of the website I had seen it on, by my recollection, I don't know that I could find it again anyway.
But my point stands without that reference if we look at the Duke and Wisconsin and other similar studies that show no difference in rates between blacks and whites, while showing a big difference based on gender.
There could be some genetic component, no doubt. Also, it could be televisiion. I'm just saying that I'm not convinced that the 10:1::White:Black ratio is real.
Report on the net today that yet another gene on Chromosome 15 is involved for about 1%, and it references yet another gene for others (with an unknown percentage).
Many years ago on one of the infamous "flouride threads" a woman proudly told me she and her husband had disconnected from the municipal supply and dug a well when the local water authority started fluoridating water. I asked her where she lived, and she told me a certain city in Colorado (I think). On closer inspection I showed her that the ground water in that area actually had many times the fluoride concentration as the municipal supply.
She wasn't happy.
People have this idea that poisons are only artifically added to things. They can't wrap their head around the fact that most of these things are also naturally occurring.
And then there was the anti-amalgam (silver filling) guy who boasted about how healthy he was because he ate a lot of seafood.....
I think I read about this in an old issue of Heavy Metal...
A more obvious answer is that they are ethnically homogeneous and have no 'autism genes.'
No, no they aren't. They aren't even close. Hyperhydrosis and tachycardia are not symptoms of autism.
Profit motives????? Fertility control????
Ok - see, now you've gone and outed yourself as a nut job. That kind of conjecture might cut it on Art Bell, but not here, Missie.
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