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Pesticides and Autism

“3 Reasons Aerial Pesticides Are Not Causing Autism,” By Hank Campbell.
Steven Hicks, M.D. PhD, pediatrician at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, looked at autism rates in a swampy region of New York and saw higher developmental delay and autism diagnoses in some areas where and thinks he knows why; pyrethroid pesticides being sprayed by airplanes to kill mosquitoes. Scientists, toxicologists, and public health officials certainly appreciate some attention being drawn to killing mosquitoes as the season and Zika concern —approaches, but chemically it just can’t be true, for three reasons … Read more.