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Old 01-13-2015, 07:58 AM   #24
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Circumcision rates in N America have significantly dropped over the last 40 years, autism rates have massively increased.

Also if the study postulates that the trauma of the procedure cause autism then you would have to find a correlating trauma in every kid that has autism, you just can't argue some kids get autism due to trauma and some due to some other genetic or bio chemical reason it would be utterly asinine.
Spurious correlation. Here's a nice website related to that:

http://tylervigen.com/
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