Salon.com > Eleanor J. Bader http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 13:52:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A new autism theory http://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/generation_autism/ http://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/generation_autism/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12909720 If horror is your genre, environmental writer Brita Belli’s "The Autism Puzzle," is the book for you. Her terrifying look at the chemicals we eat, drink and breathe is guaranteed to make your hair stand on end.

AlterNetWe should thank her for it.

Statistics released earlier this spring by the Centers for Disease Control revealed that one in 88 U.S.-born toddlers has an autism spectral disorder — from the less severe Asperger’s syndrome to the so-called classical form of the ailment. Worse, it’s not just a North American phenomenon; Belli also reports a 57 percent spike in Asia and Europe.

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