thanks for your comment—-are there any reasons in particular, based on your child’s personal experiences and history, that led you to suspect radiation?

seemed to have a correlation if you were literally bathed in it (worked on the radar on a ship and spent many many years in it on a daily basis, for example) but the amounts the average American is exposed to are nothing.

Not to mention that if we had no technology we’d still be bathed in the earth’s emf…

Are there geographic locales, such as Central Africa, that have considerably less ambient EMR where epidemiologic studies re: autism have been accomplished? And if so, is the incidence decreased?

Has anyone yet attempted to prevent the development of autism by protecting the developing brain of the fetus/infanwith aluminum foil?

Are there any epidemiological studies concerning the incidence of autism in populations exposed to high levels of EMR vs those populations that are not?

We are all aware of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Is there an autism epidemic there as well – on the same scale as it is in the U.S.?

Is it really that strange to assume that the human brain, which is composed of nerve cells and fibers that are separated by small spaces (called synapses), through which electro-chemical transmission of impulses pass from one neuron to another; could not possibly be influenced/affected by the ambient EMR, and that the ambient EMR levels are geographically diverse?

Is it likely or not that some human brains are more susceptible than others to the influence of EMR on their electro-chemical transmissions?

Is there some level of ambient EMR at which all human brains will be influenced/affected?

Is there a connection to ADHD, dementia or benign forgetfulness as well?

To dismiss the possibility of EMR as having any etiologic role in autism would be sophomoric and narrow minded. And if true, any attempt to rectify the situation by some meaningful reduction in man-made EMR would be met with stiff resistance and ultimate failure. There are simply too many making too much money to reverse the electro-pollution we are now all subjected to.

*plonk*

(You young ‘uns probably have never heard that sound: *plonk* is the sound that a good old-fashioned 1970s-vintage ASCII-text Usenet News reader program made (in the mind’s eye — we had to use our imagination!) when you plopped yet another troll’s Usenet address onto your killfile. A killfile was a list of people whose posts your newsreader would simply skip and not show you. And Lovaas thinks he invented “extinction”. Ha.)

And yes, I’m old enough to be given license to repeat myself. The AARP is already sending me membership solicitations .