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Re:New insights on pesticide exposure and autism by alexandercrohde on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:42PM (#17928473)
What are you talking about? Region and location has nothing to do with this study.

They took the serum of the pregnant mother, measured that for the pesticide, and found it was a statistically significant predictor of autism.

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Re:New insights on pesticide exposure and autism by nerdponx on Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:00PM (#17931561)
The whole thread is responding to my suggestion that you ought to also find a geographical relationship between DDT application and autism.
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Re:New insights on pesticide exposure and autism by alexandercrohde on Friday September 07, 2018 @02:26PM (#17936521)
Oh, shit, you're right. I didn't read your part not-in-italics.

Well, I suck. I was rude and incorrect. Thank you for taking the time to keep me humble.

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