• neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Aside from politics, do scientists actually know what causes autism? Sorry if this question is ignorant, but I have no clue about that.

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      5 months ago

      There are many theories, but nothing really replicable. Genetics definitely play a role, and air pollution is implicated pretty heavily, but we don’t have a “do this and you get autism” yet. There could be more than one cause, too - biology is messy.