When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many different points of view and assemble evidence from many different vantage points. Biological evidence in humans and in animals, toxicologic evidence, how does the body deal with toxins, and evidence looking at the actual experience in populations.
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Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.
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When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.
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The emergency care Americans receive can fall short of what they expect and deserve.
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Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.
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The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.
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We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.
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Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.
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At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.