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Well, researchers have made us all proud of them once again, by discovering that autism is much more prevalent in "geek cities".
Surprise, surprise! Did it ever dawn on a single one of them that maybe the fact that geeks in general are a lot less likely to allow the sun to contact their skin might have anything to do with that situation? (IOW, geek families are more likely to be vitamin D deficient.) Nope. They would have to have devoted a few seconds of thought to their work in order to figure that out. 
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... lands.htmlChildhood autism is two to four times as common in Eindhoven, the centre of the Dutch information technology industry, as it is in two comparably sized Dutch cities with far fewer IT employees.
The result supports the suggestion that people who work in hi-tech engineering and computing industries, which demand the kinds of systemising and analytical skills often seen in people with autism, are more likely to have autistic children too.
Rising autism has also been seen in regions such as Silicon Valley, California. But the Dutch study claims to be the first to directly ask whether concentrations of IT workers mean more children with autism too.
What am I missing here?
Is there some unwritten law that I'm unaware of, that says that researchers are not allowed to possess any common sense, for fear that it might interfere with their work?Tex
