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In reply to the discussion: Study links autism with circumcision [View all]Igel
(35,305 posts)43. Don't they teach simple stats to researchers?
I mean, this is the kind of thing where you start to wonder, "Gee, perhaps there's a confound!"
Maybe the drive to publish for fun and profit is so high that people figure it doesn't matter. "If it's bullshit, caveat emptor as long as my CV has another few lines."
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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
In both of these Abrahamic religions, male circumcision is a religious requirement....
Hekate
Mar 2015
#25
all we need now is moon bombing, chicken, Olive Garden, pit bulls and breast-feeding....
steve2470
Mar 2015
#11
Correlation does not equal causation. Eating pickles before conception is linked with autism too
uppityperson
Mar 2015
#14
Now that sounds very reasonable. Most baby boys were circumcized before they were two weeks
jwirr
Mar 2015
#41
They were giving local lidocaine in that time period. But I hadn't heard about Tylenol
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#45
I think this depends on eating at the Olive Garden in Manhattan, before having one.
madinmaryland
Mar 2015
#19
It was not all that long ago when every boy child in the USA was circumsized. I wonder what the
jwirr
Mar 2015
#31