It’s in the air, on the ground, on your shirt, in your food, in your car, in your office, in your house, in your sheets, in the water, everywhere … not enough to poison or kill you but in enough amounts to severely affect your life from the moment you are born to the time you die.
So, we would expect ASD diagnosis to be dropping, because while lead is a lot more prevalent than say the 1920s, it’s significantly less prevalent than the 1970s as shown by blood toxicity trends.
… oh look, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Could it be that you’re wrong? Cause last I checked the most likely predictor of ASD is if your relatives have it, implying a strong genetic component, and not lead exposure (in-vitro or otherwise).
Lead … its global world wide lead poisoning
It’s in the air, on the ground, on your shirt, in your food, in your car, in your office, in your house, in your sheets, in the water, everywhere … not enough to poison or kill you but in enough amounts to severely affect your life from the moment you are born to the time you die.
So, we would expect ASD diagnosis to be dropping, because while lead is a lot more prevalent than say the 1920s, it’s significantly less prevalent than the 1970s as shown by blood toxicity trends.
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/lead-exposure-has-fallen-dramatically-in-the-united-states-since-the-1970s
… oh look, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Could it be that you’re wrong? Cause last I checked the most likely predictor of ASD is if your relatives have it, implying a strong genetic component, and not lead exposure (in-vitro or otherwise).