Comments on: If It’s Raining, There’s More Autism?

By: It Never Rains But It Pours: What a Week

It Never Rains But It Pours: What a Week — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:53:23 +0000

[...] guess that is kind of an understatement. There was a new, and frustratingly improbable theory of autism causation: Rain. The Times Online reminds us that, as has often been said, a correlation does not mean [...]

By: Parental Guilt and Genes

Parental Guilt and Genes — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:00:17 +0000

[...] autism to rates of rainfall could be said to be a quite extensive attempt to find an environmental cause of autism, and one [...]

By: donald savitz

donald savitz — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:22:45 +0000

HCN; I did look at study and I would like know if they separatenorthen CA from southern CA because see the weather you have two different states.The north is rainey and the south not so much. I like how they jacked the numbers around to make the results come out with what they wented. So you have to look on how many days each stayed in doors or out just in CA. So I did not thank much of that study. As for the northwest I naver paided much attention becuse the are not all ways on fire. Be cause you seam to have more rain and fog in that area so they may have more time inside. Another thing is how much can tv can a child who is only 3 watch, as there is lot of nap time.

By: HCN

HCN — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:36:04 +0000

The study only covered California, Oregon and Washington. You should have looked at more closely.

By: donald savitz

donald savitz — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:41:51 +0000

Hi HCN; When I talked about mercury I was thinking more about NJ Getting all of that smoke from Va,WVA,OH because the wind go from west to east in this part of the country. It gos over the Appalachan Mtns and down to DEL and NJ.I thank that NJ is called the garden state because of the amount of produce they grow, so the rain fall on all of this produce witch may have mercury in it. That is all i am saying is that some of the mercury may get into the food chain. I just read the ORAC report and all he could talf about the vitamin D thing. The one thing he did not say who was not getting the vitamin D the moother or child, how much vitamin D con you give a 2 yr old. I said it before and Iwill say it again that baby has autism beform it is born!! Yes I have a map of CA. When I see the fire fighters who are fightering the fire thy say the Santa Anna winds are blowing the fire to the coast, witch would mean the winds were going from east to west and ther is very big power plant over in Arizona that would be east of CA I belive. I will say Iam not sure about OR and Wa. Iam not sure of how many Coal fired power plants you have as I thank most of you power comes water power so I would have to go back to the water that you drink with the fluorid also the sme in Ca. AS you know that fluoride is made up of LEAD and ARSENIC

By: HCN

HCN — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:51:06 +0000

David Savitz said “When the wind biow across the smoke stavks of a power plant the wind picks up the mercury from the smoke”

The study was done on counties in California, Oregon and Washington. The rainy counties with the most autism were the ones closer to the coast in the west. The counties with the less autism were the dryer counties east of there (the mountain ranges, the coastal ranges and the Cascade Mountains create a rain shadow).

I have family members who complain when smog and smoke filtering through the Cascade Mountains on to the Columbia Plateau. Are they in a rainy or dry county? Which direction is the wind blowing?

Pray tell, where are the smoke stacks dumping mercury on Astoria, OR, San Francisco, CA and Forks, WA, and Longbeach, CA?

Do you have a map? Do you know how to read a map?

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:48:37 +0000

Shoot! Kirby did go with the mercury-in-air hypothesis! (My guess he’d go for the beyond ludicrous and try and suggest that people are more likely to vaccinate their kids on rainy days. But I guess he’s finally seeming to have drop thimerosal… finally. Though that could be a mistaken assumption)

Cliff

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:56:28 +0000

Orac gets to work on the study and notes “the desperation is palpable here.”

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:45:26 +0000

“Cliff; Iwould like to hear your hypothesis to see if it is as interesting as mine. But today it is not mercury but lead and arsenic in the drinking water known as FLUORIDE to keep your teeth in good shape. It is all ways good to hear a good story.”

I wouldn’t call it my “hypothesis”; but if you want to hear my thoughts on this whole thing, I put something up on my blog as to that. Feel free to read.

Cliff

By: donald savitz

donald savitz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:25:32 +0000

Cliff; Iwould like to hear your hypothesis to see if it is as interesting as mine. But today it is not mercury but lead and arsenic in the drinking water known as FLUORIDE to keep your teeth in good shape. It is all ways good to hear a good story.