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uppityperson

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14. Correlation does not equal causation. Eating pickles before conception is linked with autism too
Sat Mar 28, 2015, 04:29 PM
Mar 2015

A majority of parents ate pickles in the year before they conceived children with autism.

Study links autism with circumcision [View all] Jesus Malverde Mar 2015 OP
yikes olddots Mar 2015 #1
It will be like "King Kong v Godzilla" AngryAmish Mar 2015 #38
"Causality remains unproven." Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #2
Yes. elleng Mar 2015 #4
This, will likely be a very long contentious thread. I'm stocking up on RKP5637 Mar 2015 #3
This thread needs more Olive Garden. n/t lumberjack_jeff Mar 2015 #8
+1, n/t RKP5637 Mar 2015 #22
And a pit bull. hifiguy Mar 2015 #23
Go back to the store jmowreader Mar 2015 #20
That sounds like mistaking correlation for causation Spider Jerusalem Mar 2015 #5
Great observation...nt Jesus Malverde Mar 2015 #6
It could be due to a shared environmental cause. Maybe Lamb causes Autism? n/t lumberjack_jeff Mar 2015 #12
It's also a question of the over-design of sensitivity... sample size of 340,000??? HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #26
Interesting study, in terms of circumcison being a trauma inducing event Zorra Mar 2015 #7
Riiiight. Because there are so many autistic Jews and Arabs. Throughout history. Hekate Mar 2015 #9
What? uppityperson Mar 2015 #17
In both of these Abrahamic religions, male circumcision is a religious requirement.... Hekate Mar 2015 #25
Thank you, I understand all that, was wondering about the autism crack. uppityperson Mar 2015 #28
I was bein really, really sarcastic about the "study." nt Hekate Mar 2015 #29
Thank you, that is what I thought but am trying to clarify vs assume. nt uppityperson Mar 2015 #32
There's a place that I could go with this, but... AnnieBW Mar 2015 #10
all we need now is moon bombing, chicken, Olive Garden, pit bulls and breast-feeding.... steve2470 Mar 2015 #11
Nothing will ever, hifiguy Mar 2015 #24
Chemtrails! Don't forget those. nt LiberalEsto Mar 2015 #35
I call BS on their study. Quackers Mar 2015 #13
As a hypothetical, much better diagnostic evaluations... Fumesucker Mar 2015 #15
Correlation does not equal causation. Eating pickles before conception is linked with autism too uppityperson Mar 2015 #14
Study links autism with studies... MrScorpio Mar 2015 #16
bingo! LiberalEsto Mar 2015 #37
In the comments there was a link to another study oregonjen Mar 2015 #18
That is interesting. Chemisse Mar 2015 #34
Now that sounds very reasonable. Most baby boys were circumcized before they were two weeks jwirr Mar 2015 #41
No medication is used. dgibby Mar 2015 #44
They were giving local lidocaine in that time period. But I hadn't heard about Tylenol pnwmom Mar 2015 #45
Don't they teach simple stats to researchers? Igel Mar 2015 #43
I think this depends on eating at the Olive Garden in Manhattan, before having one. madinmaryland Mar 2015 #19
Well...whatever... Laffy Kat Mar 2015 #21
I knew a church that on the Feast of the Circumcision sang the hymn. .. hrmjustin Mar 2015 #27
makes sense always told men think with their dicks dembotoz Mar 2015 #30
It was not all that long ago when every boy child in the USA was circumsized. I wonder what the jwirr Mar 2015 #31
I don't think they gave the babies any pain medicine in those days. Chemisse Mar 2015 #36
I was about 10 years old and in the hospital for surgery. One day I heard this poor child screaming jwirr Mar 2015 #40
My brothers were born in the late '40s - late '50s & they were.... Hekate Mar 2015 #39
. hunter Mar 2015 #33
Wow. You are one brave dude, Jesus. beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #42
And yet in the US, circumcision rates have been falling while autism is rising. But I wouldn't pnwmom Mar 2015 #46
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