New Study-gives clear and direct new evidence that autism begins during pregnancy.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. This vaguely reminds me of colony collapse disorder studies

There was one I read through a few months back in which the way in which the nicotinoids (sp?) from herbicides they tested in tiny, tiny amounts were being carried back to the colony by workers and winding up in the food for larvae and causing developmental problems in the midgut of the bees that left them exceptionally vulnerable to winding up with parasites.

Prior to that study, a lot of people had been thinking the chemicals couldn't be linked to CCD, because they weren't directly present in bees tested even down to the limits of testing.

To my mind, this suggests, more and more that autism and other developmental disorders are linked to environmental factors that are affecting the pregnant mother. I wonder what the anti-vaxxer crowd will say to the UCSD study.