Can infectious agents trigger genetic diseases?
Autism does have indications, sort of smoking guns, of infectious causation. And we should be looking really hard to see what agents might be infecting the growing fetus during pregnancy. What are the key developments in your field? The final synthesis of evolution with the health sciences is going to affect daily life in dramatic ways. I think that a lot of the diseases that we haven’t been able to control have been difficult to control because these organisms that cause them are so versatile evolutionarily. And so that means that when we try to use antibiotics against them, they evolve resistance to antibiotics. I think what we need to do is recognize that this is their characteristic, their versatility. And we have to use that characteristic to our advantage as opposed to theirs. So in other words if it has an evolutionary potential. We use that evolutionary potential to get the organism to evolve towards benignity.
