1. Scare tactic. fox news only uses Autism for fear and to hatemonger. don't use them for reliable info on autism. what else you use them for does not matter to me and is none of may business.
2. look at the wording of the article. heres a randomly pulled line... "To do the study, Brown partnered with researchers in Finland, a country with a universal health care system that tracks diagnoses, such as autism, in all people living there. The researchers identified 778 cases of children diagnosed with autism who were born from 1987 to 2005, then matched those individuals with controls — that is, children who were born during that same period but did not have an autism diagnosis."
what does free health care have to do with the choice of country the researchers that tested came from. that's like saying to do a study on obesity, we chose the US because of their creation of fast food.
3. we really dont know what causes this. yes everyone focuses on the mothers, but there was a study done where dna in sperm is broken down by the testies, edited, and re-pieced together
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180726162746.htm (clearing my search history after this) there
4. meet the micromort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort its the unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death. what are the odds the stuff in the air, and the marketing the was pro this, which now anti this substance was a biporduct of something being done without people knowledge or not. My birth mom or grandmother did not use DDT or DDT based products, not did dad/grandpa, so how do I have it. studies like this while may or may not have basis are not able to prove its not a coincidence.
conclusion: things have a chance to do things. but its not the source. if a study is not done in a way where there is little doubt then its just that "i have a theory I am going to publish" and the media and public skew that intent to their own needs.
p.s. id say the same thing for any "news network" who posted this.