{"id":466,"date":"2010-01-07T21:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T02:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2010-01-07T21:37:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T02:37:04","slug":"new-study-links-autism-to-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"New Study Links Autism to Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Marla Cone, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, January 9, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/autism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"autism\" border=\"0\" alt=\"autism\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/autism_thumb.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a> California&#8217;s sevenfold increase in autism cannot be explained by changes in doctors&#8217; diagnoses and most likely is due to environmental exposures, University of California scientists reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists who authored the new study advocate a nationwide shift in autism research to focus on potential factors in the environment that babies and fetuses are exposed to, including pesticides, viruses and chemicals in household products.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s time to start looking for the environmental culprits responsible for the remarkable increase in the rate of autism in California,&quot; said Irva Hertz-Picciotto, an epidemiology professor at University of California, Davis who led the study.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the nation, the numbers of autistic children have increased dramatically over the past 15 years. Autistic children have problems communicating and interacting socially; the symptoms usually are evident by the time the child is a toddler. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=autism-rise-driven-by-environment\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of article]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research links soaring incidence of the mysterious neurological disorder to fetal and infant exposure to pesticides, viruses, and household chemicals &#8212; not to vaccinations, as many parents mistakenly have feared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[164,189,187,190,188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}