Check out this other post from today on the 'based forum' that is also about the possible causes of increasing rates of autism diagnosis - https://poal.co/s/USNews/557350 - the linked article cites a study which gives no suggestions as to the causes, although it does then quote some dude from the Epoch Times who gives his own guesses, which are different from the Substack fags guesses. They are all just guessing.
The burden of proof is not on me to forensically explain why each random guess is not true - the burden of proof rests with the people making the suggestions. Random guesses are polluting the discourse, not helping to get to the truth - they are building a hall of mirrors.
I want to believe that there is a smoking gun out there that can be evidentially proven, be it vaccines / autoimmune response, glyphosate, or some other vector for the autism phenomenon. I may also want to believe there is a depopulation agenda behind it. But it is too easy to let my personal prejudice influence my suspicions, it's human nature. Robert de Niro thinks his son is autistic because of vaccines. Someone who lives next to a chemical plant, or under a pylon might blame those instead.
But thank you for your well reasoned response, clearly more research is required, perhaps it is a confluence of factors causing the phenomena and will be more complicated and take more time to understand than either of us would like, but as public pressure grows and more research is undertaken in response, a responsible party or factor can be identified.
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