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100 genes linked to autism discovered... bad news for future autistic children

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www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Autism-screening-closer-as-100-genes-linked-to-disorder-are-identified.html

The article says "It raises the prospect that couples undergoing IVF would be able to select embryos without the mutations and prevent their children developing autism." So basically, couples will be able to commit genocide. This is sickening. Why is it that we are constantly seen as negative? Why are genes that cause corruption and greed not being identified and wiped out? Reading this has completely ruined my day and made me incredibly worried about the future of this planet. I can't stand the arrogant NT attitude that we are somehow "wrong" and they are right. THEY are the ones who gawp at rubbish like TOWIE and Made In Chelsea. THAT is the weird behaviour, not us wanting to feel in touch with our surroundings. It all makes me want to give up

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  • It is important the media handles these revelations properly. The media likes to sensationalise. Proper understanding of the research may not have been achieved when released to the press.

    Researchers often prematurely release findings in the hope of attracting more funding. We tend not to hear that the research later fizzled out for the ill-researched nonsense it actually was.

    In the 1960s scientists got into a complete muddle, identifying certain XYY chromosome males who were tall and had acne, with certain psychopathic killers in American prisons - and the supermale syndrome came into being. The fact the prisoners weren't XYY chromosome, but were just tall and had acne, took a while to surface. The resultant hysteria and nonsense rattled on for a decade and a half before being discredited.

    In 1971 the Doomwatch series on BBC showed a story about a schoolboy thus suspected of being a psychopath. That in particular led to a lot of public abuse of tall young men. I'm 2 metres tall, and clumsy with it, usually looking a bit hostile (but not XYY chromosome, and I didn't have acne), so I felt the fall-out from Doomwatch. I'll never forgive the BBC for the harm they did.

    I wish NAS would be careful over some of these press releases. On another thread I've expressed concern about NAS getting involved in speculation about Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes character being on the spectrum. It does a lot of harm, because it stereotypes us, and adds to the public misunderstanding of autism.

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  • It is important the media handles these revelations properly. The media likes to sensationalise. Proper understanding of the research may not have been achieved when released to the press.

    Researchers often prematurely release findings in the hope of attracting more funding. We tend not to hear that the research later fizzled out for the ill-researched nonsense it actually was.

    In the 1960s scientists got into a complete muddle, identifying certain XYY chromosome males who were tall and had acne, with certain psychopathic killers in American prisons - and the supermale syndrome came into being. The fact the prisoners weren't XYY chromosome, but were just tall and had acne, took a while to surface. The resultant hysteria and nonsense rattled on for a decade and a half before being discredited.

    In 1971 the Doomwatch series on BBC showed a story about a schoolboy thus suspected of being a psychopath. That in particular led to a lot of public abuse of tall young men. I'm 2 metres tall, and clumsy with it, usually looking a bit hostile (but not XYY chromosome, and I didn't have acne), so I felt the fall-out from Doomwatch. I'll never forgive the BBC for the harm they did.

    I wish NAS would be careful over some of these press releases. On another thread I've expressed concern about NAS getting involved in speculation about Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes character being on the spectrum. It does a lot of harm, because it stereotypes us, and adds to the public misunderstanding of autism.

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