Toxic Baby Food Autism Lawsuit

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Maybe I've missed something but i cant see this lawsuit succeeding, how can they prove the autism wasn't there at birth, when medical science don't even know what causes autism apart from genes.

Probably lawyers trying to make money encouraging the lawsuit

they will likely settle out of court, lawyers only go after "deep pockets", corporations with lots of money and usually things get settled without proof ever being shown/tested or tried in court. predatory legal practices prey on parents who are trying to find reasons for struggling offspring, and looking for somebody to blame, so far there have been no proven cases of autism having been caused by toxic foods or meds. ( to my knowledge) All food goes through a lot of testing by the government before being allowed to be used for food in most civilized countries and random testing continually is done to keep the food chain safe of toxic chemicals. Of course there are incidents where things are found to have escaped examination and to have caused trouble, but this is not as frequent as continual suits against big name companies making the news might lead one to believe. Many suits are simply predatory "for profit" law firms looking to make a killing with lawsuits against a big company with insurance and profits enough to pay off lawsuits in fear of adverse publicity such suits would bring regardless of the truth of lack of proof behind the claims.

I'm autistic.
I ate baby food.
Can I has money now pl0x?

Making them pay-out is likely to force them to be more mindful of potential contamination whether or not it's relevant to anyone's autism.

“Commercial Baby Food Causes Autism” . . . I will add this to my list, just after the “Collective Bargaining Causes Autism” entry, and just before the “Communal Bathing Causes Autism” entry.

How do they come up with this crap?

I don't understand.
Since, well...

My household is too poor to afford those things.
Even poorer around the time I've been a baby.


So........

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First of all, I am not a toxicologist. I am simply a random autistic person on the internet.

On the one side of this fight are the baby food companies. On the other are the lawyers seeking to make money out of them. Caught in the middle are the desperate parents, looking for help for their autistic children, and thus ripe for exploitation.

I've done my research and can find links only to large numbers of lawyers' offices, and to only one rebuttal - from the ACSH, which is known to skew conservative, and looks to be advocating for the baby food companies. Their opinion states that the studies driving these lawsuits 'did not determine causality; they identified a correlation', i.e. 'it is not a fact that heavy metals in baby food cause autism; it has just been suggested that they might'.

By all means, let the research go ahead. In my opinion it is likely to lead to a conclusion that levels of heavy metals in baby food are unhealthy in general.

But this particular fight is between two sets of people trying to make money. There are no autistic people in the conversation, and it is of no benefit to autistic people or their families.

For us, the only winning move is not to play.