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Originally Posted by pylon
So then, there should be extremely high rates of Autism amongst jewish males since almost 100% of Jewish males are circumcised. Should be very easy to prove this ridiculous claim.
For the record, I am personally against circumcision, and wish I was never butchered because of my mothers silly beliefs. But I really think this is a silly claim, and you would immediately go to the Jewish community to validate these results.
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I think your math is very wrong. This study is clearly heavily flawed and no one should read too much into it, but it says circumcision increases your child's risk of developing autism, it doesn't say it makes you autistic. Secondly, as there are huge genetic questions raised if you look at a single ethnic group and try to correlate a universal procedure with a health outcome. The question then becomes: is there maybe a genetic reason so many Jewish people have autism?