Autism-Birth Induction Link: Correlation or Causation?

A new study linking birth induction to autism is rippling through the mainstream press, generating titles such as Bloomberg's "Autism Risk May Be Raised for Children When Labor Induced, CBS News' "Induced labor may increase risk of autism in offspring, and WebMD's "Induced Labor Linked to Raised Risk of Autism."

One common feature of these headlines is the use of the language of risk, a characteristically fatalistic and superficial way of talking and thinking about life-and-death matters, one far more appropriate to the business of insurance adjusting or financial planning, than helping people understand the real world implications of the research being reported on. Calculating disease risk, of course, is an essentially passive activity vis-à-vis a perceived inevitability, e.g. the 'autism epidemic,' whose presumably idiopathic nature is not to be explored in any depth, but assumed as pressing down upon us from some point in the future whose exact position is unknown but can be approximated statistically.

Truth be told, it doesn't require a JAMA Pediatrics published study, or a license in obstetrics, to clearly see there is something terribly wrong with the way we are bringing our next generation into the world. There are obvious cause-effect dynamics at play between the accelerating autism 'epidemic' and the alarmingly high rates of medically unnecessary and/or elective Caesarian section (23% or higher), and the cocktail of inadequately tested and understood medications that go with these major surgical interventions, such as the synthetic hormone oxytoxcin, prostaglandin analogs, intrapartum antibiotics and epidural analgesia to name but a few. Follow up this epigenetically disfiguring chemistry experiment, with the now routine hepatitis B antigen injection (for what is essentially a non-vaccine preventable STD transmitted via blood or semen), and you have a recipe for disaster, leaving us unsurprised by this recent academic verification of a cause-effect connection; to the contrary, the mystery is why a far higher percentage of our newborns do not end up becoming psychosocially disabled later in life, given what they are up against before, during and immediately after being born.

So, what does the lead author of the study have to say about the implications of the largest study performed to date showing over the course of 8 years and within a population of over 625,000 children that birth induction/augmentation increases autism risk by up to 35%? That man, Simon Gregory, an associate professor of medicine and medical genetics at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, said in a Bloomberg interview:
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