| A lot of people believe in alternative medicine with a more scientific method that you think: They try it and it works for them, is not superstition. No, it's the placebo effect. If alternative medicine works better than placebo, it becomes medicine. I have news for you: electromagnetic radiation causes cancer and is able to kill you and kill you fast. That it does is not questionable, the question is how much energy is needed to interfere with the human body. Again no superstition, just being cautious with the live of those you love. Large amounts of any of the fundamental forces can kill you. Gravity can kill you. The strong nuclear force can definitely kill you. Even the weak nuclear force can kill you through beta radiation. Of course those forces are also necessary for life to exist. You're also not discriminating between ionizing (cancer-causing) and non-ionizing radiation. The only ionizing radiation most people get is in the form of UV rays from the sun. Non-ionizing radiation (light, IR, microwaves, radio) is at power levels too low to harm us. Nobody knows what causes autism, so hypothesis could be done. I'm not sure what you're trying to say in the second half of that sentence, but it's incorrect to say "nobody knows what causes autism." The word autism probably refers to multiple conditions that we haven't differentiated yet. All of them involve changes in brain chemistry or brain structure. Some of these changes are caused by genes. Some are caused by environment. That is a much smaller region of hypothesis-space than "we don't know." |