Today on the show we discuss the recent study regarding diet soda and stroke (while they say they don't know why there is a link, we explain it). We also talked about Chinese companies making fake, plastic rice (yes, for consumption) energy firms in England spying on activists and our very government being paid (through money laundering) to help industry continue to poison us here in America. With the last of the show we began our discussion on the recent review article published in The Journal of Immunotoxicology entitled: Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes- A Review

This month we speak the the director of UCLA's PEERS program; a social skill building program for adolescents and adults on the spectrum. Dr. Liz Laugeson describes the research based program and its' effectiveness in training social skills through modelling and coaching and the role of parents in the process.

Michael, Debra and Rob Sidell introduce and produce a great show reviewing articles about how puppets and play can be important and indicative to recovery from ASD, how Doctor's have developed "defensive" medicine to avoid suits by ordering unneeded testing, how air pollutant exposure suffered by the mother durin g gestation can lower the IQ of the child even though his exposure is in utero and a detailed and descriptive article about the "Cause" of autism.

Michael, Debra and Rob Sidell introduce and produce a show reviewing news articles about the groundbreaking use of proteins to "cure" Downs Syndrome in rat models, a hypothesis that progestin contraceptives may be at the bottom of the ASD epidemic, the use of faecal transplants to treat gut issues and autoi mmune diseases such as Parkinson's and the use of a driving simulator to help train new and potential drivers with ADHD, Asperger's and High Functioning Autism to handle the complex multitasking required.