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A comment on Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Autism in Offspring. Parent comment

Re:Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Au... by ebikelaw on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:33AM (#17809354)
It's important research because the chemical industry and their boosters are always trying to get it unbanned. Koch-funded libertarian mouthpiece Reason still runs near-constant attacks on Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, 55 years later.
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Re:Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Au... by gcthomas on Friday August 24, 2018 @05:29AM (#17833795)
Research isn't made important because it satisfies a political imperative, but because it advances knowledge in a reliable way.

This sort of narrowly significant result is just the sort of research that is vulnerable to p-hacking and other biases. I'll wait for some supporting research before accepting something so weak, no matter the politics.

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