Drunk Moms Cause Autism

Published: March 22, 2008, 8:05 pm

Or so says this reporter who wants us to just take her word for it as the study that would support this claim is unpublished and the researchers won't talk to her about what it actually says. But she feels just taking their word for it is investigation enough to for publication in a major newspaper?This really bothers me.My letter to Sarah-Kate Templeton:Wow.. what a horribly irresponsible piece of journalism. "Guess what everyone... drinking causes autism, and we have a study to prove it, but we are not going to tell you what is in the study, and no one can check our work but we want you to print it in the newspaper and tell everyone anyway. Trust us... we have presented it in "scientific meetings".Ms. Templeton, women have been drinking while pregnant for thousands of years. (tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands? When was fermentation discovered?) It seems reasonable to assume that if it caused something like autism, people would have discovered, labeled and described autism

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