Gregg Easterbrook in Slate reports on a new Cornell study that shows a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3. The retrospective study (available as a pdf) compares autism rates to the growth of cable television across counties, and also to weather, since children watch more television in bad weather. Please note that unlike the studies described in the Scientific Evidence portion of HealingThresholds.com, this Cornell study has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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