Does genetically modified food cause autism?

No, but here is the big secret they don't tell you: organic food does!

(This was of course a sarcastic example meant to illustrate how correlation does not imply causality. Still I've seen people claim GMO gives autism with the sole piece of proof being the actually smaller correlation between GMO sales and autism. The graph is not my work, author unknown.)

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