No, Pesticides Did Not Give Your Child A Tiny Penis - Or Autism

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If Science2.0 and The American Council on Science Health are all worthless, bogus sources wholly funded by Big Autism or Big Tiny Penis then that is what it is. Maybe they are. Maybe everyone who has pointed out that this study is worthless on its face is bought and paid for.

But the study does have every appearance of being one of the lowest examples of fake-ass pretend "science" ever promulgated and anyone who read more than two paragraphs about it and gave it any credence whatsoever really probably ought not be reporting on science.

In mainstream media, everywhere from Fox News to Time (and here on Science 2.0, though with a little more skepticism) a bizarre study is all the rage - pesticides and other environmental toxins will give your kid a malformed penis and cause autism. And state regulations...prevent it.

This overturns all of epidemiology, right? Now something has to be done. Autism causes might be okay to debate in a reasoned fashion but the public will not stand for giving American men tiny penises. We're already in a new Cold War with Russia and Russian men are supposedly huge.

Well, no, it doesn't turn over anything except the stomaches of people who know how to read a study. They don't actually know if there are any chemicals, toxic or otherwise, involved. Instead, they searched for malformed penises among insurance claims. And those must be caused by environmental toxins, right? It's our old friend the surrogate marker.

...The American Council on Science Health oscillates somewhere between apoplectic and stunned in their coverage. I got on Skype with Ana Simovska and you can tell I was thinking about articles on both direct evidence for inflation and Cosmos, because I couldn't decide what is a better similarly ridiculous metaphor - correlating the rates of "Hello Kitty" dolls or the number of Whole Foods stores in a county to autism...

http://www.science20.com/science_20/no_pesticides_did_not_give_your_child_tiny_penis_or_autism-131863

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1. Harvard Research Shows Links between ADHD and pesticides

Boston - A study recently published in Pediatrics demonstrates a link between Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and organophosphate pesticides.

http://www.foodmatters.tv/articles-1/new-harvard-research-shows-link-between-adhd-and-pesticides

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2. Cancer, on the other hand...

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