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Mani (pronounced like 'money') is the Sanskrit word for 'gem' and is the true origin of the word 'money', not from the temple of Moneta in Rome.

Before our ancestors began their love affair with fruit and shiny stones, 'mani' meant one of two things:

The Female Jewel or the Virgin Bride.

Back then it was 'No food? No Mani (hunny)!'

Now it is reversed: 'No money, no food.'

Hypertrophy Hypothesis of Autism put to the Test.

A hypothesis must be testable to qualify as a hypothesis. Then it must be tested, failing falsification many times in many different ways, before being accepted as a 'Theory'.

This is why your theory about vaccines gets laughed at, while your hypothesis about vaccines gets you hummed at.

The most common version of the Hypertrophy Hypothesis of Autism states that the epigenetic changes that are required to produce an autistic individual are acquired over one or more generations where the following conditions are satisfied:

1) The mother's food was very regular.
2) The mother's food was fully nutritious.
3) The mother never genuinely believed that starvation was an option for her family.

In order to test this part of the hypothesis, we would need to find two populations, as similar in ancestry as possible, where one population had suffered considerable periods of widespread starvation but the other had not.

Planet earth, with all it's separate nation states and laws, provides a huge laboratory rich with data. If only we can work out how to mine it...

Last year, a South Korean study found an estimate for the autism rate within their country by screening large numbers of children. The criteria for 'autism' were very loose so the research gave us a figure of approximately 2.5% of South Korean children having some form of autism.

If we sent the same team to North Korea, to perform the same testing on North Korean children, the Hypertrophy Hypothesis makes the following prediction:

Autism rates in the North will be significantly lower than autism rates in the South, even after adjusting for all other known risk factors.

Getting permission to do the research may be a bit of a problem. However, if the autism rate is likely to be lower than the South's, then the North might be just interested...



PS. Still hung up on the 'Neanderthal Hypothesis of Autism'? There's a test for that too. In the meantime, find me 100 full-blood ethnic south Africans with Autism and we can say *goodnight darling* to the Neanderthal story.

An incomplete list of tactical evolutionary options.

How can a tactical evolutionary advantage ever be seen as a sin to God? Maybe that's what he told his prey to see and they pray to him instead of she?

0. Never equip your food supply with a complete and accurate list of your own tactical evolutionary options. That is the rule of God. If you break it, god eats god and that's Baalarchy.

1. If you have eyes and your food does not, stick to the visual channel, keep audio to a minimum. Take to the air if possible.

2. Always quote your sources. Uncheckable sources which exist in consensus reality on pain of death, but which do not exist in external reality, are best. No one will kill you for disrespecting the Aliens, yet. Try to disrespect Asherah's bit o' fluff and you're asking for it!

3. If your food is incapable of conceptualising the divine, tell them that your magic secrets are hidden under that massive pile of stones which they can only move when they work together under your magic guidance.

3.1. It is always cheaper to break your opponent's sword than it is to make your sword longer than his. This is the law of hobbling.

3.14. If you do opt to break your opponent's sword, it is even better if the damage is not apparent until he picks it up to defend against your sword.

3.141. XKCD

4. Spines will prevent phallophagy while complex language will allow you to glide. There is nothing  worse than a hungry phallophage with a face like the reproductive organs of the female of your species, hiding in a bush making kissy noises, waiting and hoping for a snack to pop itself in.

5. Lie!

6. Equip your food with lies dressed as safety warnings and your food will lie on your behalf. This is safer and more economical than lying yourself.

7. Anything that has the same mother as you will not eat you and you shall not eat it in return. This is why we have the word 'same' but not 'insame' to accompany the male version of the word same, 'sane' which has as it's antonym, 'insane'. The m denotes the mother's eating choices and the n denotes the father's eating choices.