Reply #35: Well, it's likely that autism has many causes, or a collection of [View All]

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interacting causes. Obviously TV can't be THE cause of autism, because it existed long before TV.

But it's possible that there are many things that might interfere with neurological development at crucial points. Maybe environmental pollution is one (I suspect it is) -- maybe vaccines is another, maybe TV is one more thing that can contribute.

It seems logical that something (or many things together) must account for the *increase* in autism, assuming there is one aside from increase in diagnoses.

What's sad is how little we know about the etiology of autism, and the human mind/brain in general -- to the point that we need to look so hard at correlations that may or may not have any meaning at all.