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Could autism be a thing of the past?

dukesy

www.dailymail.co.uk/.../New-drug-help-reverse-autism-tested-children-time-successful-clinical-trials-mice.html

www.plosone.org/.../info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0057380

look at these links, some boffins in america have discovered they can correct autism in mice by using some chemical stuff, injected over a period of week, mice with autism behavours just become normal.  (Hell, why can't we do anything like this in uk?)

  

What do you people think of this?   is it ok to correct autism? would you do this?

(I would, hell I would even pay money to be included in kind of trial reguarding this)

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  • Littlebattler said:

    Diversity, in terms of natural selection, can be a life saver, a species saver. Why, as a group then, do humans feel the need to weed out and ridicule those who are different? This happens at school, in the workplace and in nature but why, if diversity is so necessary to our species? 

    Because for the majority of our evolution we lived in extended family groups ('the tribe'), and adopted rituals and traditions that allowed competing groups to safely come together and maintain genetic diversity.

    The behaviours we see in the modern world are due to our not having yet evolved and adapted to fit the environment in which we now live.

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  • Littlebattler said:

    Diversity, in terms of natural selection, can be a life saver, a species saver. Why, as a group then, do humans feel the need to weed out and ridicule those who are different? This happens at school, in the workplace and in nature but why, if diversity is so necessary to our species? 

    Because for the majority of our evolution we lived in extended family groups ('the tribe'), and adopted rituals and traditions that allowed competing groups to safely come together and maintain genetic diversity.

    The behaviours we see in the modern world are due to our not having yet evolved and adapted to fit the environment in which we now live.

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