| Topic: | Re:Autism and traffic pollution | |
| Posted by: | Andy Howard | |
| Date/Time: | 28/11/12 11:45:00 |
| It does nothing for your cause to continue to misrepresent the pollution issue. 1. Where is the data that suggests air quality on the Putney hospital site is any worse than at any of the existing primary school sites in the borough? 2.What about making it clear that the article you cite mentions a link between pollution and autism but does not establish a cause? What about mentioning, as the article does, that other researchers dispute even this link? 3.Most importantly, what about explaining that autism is understood to develop in the womb and/or in the first year of life and that it was on this age group that the study was based? Primary school children cannot "catch" autism from the atmosphere. To suggest that children schooled at the new site are going to develop autism because it's near a road is just ridiculous scare-mongering. In the same box as the doctor who convinced many parents to avoid MMR jabs because of a fictitious risk of autism (in effect, encouraging them not to protect their children against life-threatening diseases).It would be downright dangerous if there were any risk of people taking you seriously. Wandsworth BC have certainly been guilty of an over-use of spin. But people who live in glass houses.......... |