Really?
What this actually tells you is more about the fixation of cure oriented
science looking for ever wackier causes.
There is a principle called the undetermination hypothesis, coined by Pierre
Duhem which argues the impossibility of falsifying hypotheses despite there
being conflicting and mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomena
Well if you don't want autistic kids, don't have sex on a rainy day,
underneath an electricity pylon in house full of TV's if you are over 50 and
there is an r in the month.
What do all these competing but seemingly scientifically validated studies
tell you? ......... That you are a fool if you believe them all, and a
fanatic if you believe any one in particular.
Isn't it a scandal that this kind of idiotic study, which has to be invalid
if it were tested in culturally neutral circumstances is funded in the
mainstream, when the innovative researcher such as myself who is more
interested in useful research is not funded.
Bath is not a University it is a joke!
Larry
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> Subject: Men who don't find curvy women attractive 'could
> father children with autism'
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> Men who do not find the shape of the curvier woman most
> attractive could be more likely to father children with
> autism, according to a study.
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> Researchers showed 100 men with autistic children pictures of
> curvy women, women with athletic frames and more rounded
> women and found that they do not have a preference on which
> figure they find more attractive.
>
> The new research from the University of Bath suggests that
> fathers of autistic children do not share the preference of
> men across the world for the curvier woman.
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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1109722/Men-dont-cur
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> ctive-father-children-autism.html
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