Where is the evidence that there is a genetic basis for what is labelled ‘autism’?.

The ‘autism’ genes reported by the Autism Genome Consortium are all found in mental retardation syndromes without ‘autism’. The phenotype for all these false positives is mental retardation, not ‘autism’.

There is no more scientific evidence for autism being a genetically transmitted condition than there is for the vaccine theory of autism.

I adhere to Einstein’s admonition that there must be a passionate resistance to the dogma of the establishment and too many parents prostrate themselves before the Grand Poobah’s of the entrenched autism research establishment.

Someone please explain to me any genetic finding reported by the research community that is specific to autism.

Actually if you examine all the published data by the autism scientific establishment, they are in fact saying that parents do cause autism. The polygenic theorists who claim autism is a neurogenetic disorder base these assumptions, not on the fact that no ‘autism’ gene has ever been identified but artificial constructs that claim that autism is a spectrum disorder and the parents are themselves autistic but not handicapped.

The shift in theoretical beliefs has gone from refrigerator mothers who have inflicted psychological damage on their children to the concept that ‘refrigerator’ parents (the broad autism phenotype) just happened to have defrosted long enough to have produced a genetically defective child.