Autism Obesity Hypothesis Confirmed by Statistical Studies!

I have reason to toot my horn a little.

On March 18th I wrote this blog post:

http://evolutionmeme.blogspot.com/2012/03/is-there-correlation-between-recent.html

I came up with the idea that there might be a correlation between the rise of autism in developed nations and the incredibly rich diet of mothers and infants.  I had not read it anywhere. It was my own idea, and you can see the date stamped on my blog post.  I called for a statistical study to see if this was the case.

Then on April 9 the first of thousands of news, blog posts and articles and TV news reports started appearing saying much the same thing.  One of the earliest I can find on the Internet is here, but I didn't hear of this new research until after the middle of April:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/04/09/maternal-diabetes-obesity-during-pregnancy-might-raise-childs-risk-for-developmental-disorders/

Oddly enough, another of my blog posts correlates with a recent rash of news articles.

In this post I say that women's empowerment may tend towards becoming a rare or extinct meme because it (unfortunately) leads to fewer children being born to the very people who believe in it and there are thus fewer children likely to be raised to believe in it:

http://evolutionmeme.blogspot.com/2012/03/womens-empowerment-meme-getting.html

Two things have happened since I wrote that post:  A study was publicized saying that the emigration pattern between the US and Mexico has changed and there is no net population gain.  That means that the USA and the progressive memes regarding women's empowerment are going start to dwindle.  If we want to keep a sustainable population of progressive types, women need to be compensated for the rigors and risks of child-bearing and child-rearing.

Here is one of hundreds of such articles.  None of them mention that this trend is associated with a dwindling of the global population of secular humanists, compared to a rising population of hidebound patriarchal types of people:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/24/469950/more-mexicans-are-now-leaving-the-us-than-entering/?mobile=nc

The other thing is that NPR broadcast an interview with an author who identified the reason why patriarchal societies want to control women in every way.  She said that the future of the traditional culture depends on women remaining ignorant, repressed and enslaved so they will continue to produce large numbers of children and teach them the archaic beliefs of the patriarchal tradition.  I can't find a link to that but it was in regards to female genital mutilation.