Chlorine dioxide is ClO2, while bleach is NaOCl. They are different.
Bleach is a generic name for a class of chlorine-containing chemicals used in cleaning, as a disinfectant, or to remove color from an industrial product. Chlorine dioxide is used industrially to bleach wood pulp and sometimes flour, because it's significantly less toxic to human beings that sodium hypochlorite and higher levels of residual bleaching agent are considered safe for human consumption. These are still very, very low amounts, often nowhere near the concentration applied to drinking water in some places to help keep thepublic safe from certain diseases, including a few causes by microparasites.
Most proponents of using chlorine dioxide to treat Autism believe the disorder to be caused by macroparasites, though. Considering how bleaching agents kill parasites, any amount high enough to harm a nematode or other worm that you can see with the naked eye is also going to be corrosive to exposed, vulnerable human tissues, like intestinal lining. It's not as bad as downing a jug of sodium hypochlorite, sure. It's still drinking bleach.
No such thing as a genetic epidemic. Anti-vaxxers are winning.
Literally everything you said here is either irrelevant, wrong, or both.
First off, yes, it is in fact possible to have a genetic epidemic. Genes coding for disorders can become more prevalent in the general population either locally, globally, or in a certain social class for a number of different reasons. It doesn't spread like a typical epidemic disease, obviously, instead becoming more prevalent in the population over a relatively short time span. The idea that Autism is a genetic epidemic has actually been suggested, since people with higher-functioning Autism may have become more likely to reproduce since the last few decades of the 20th century than they were before. I don't actually think that Autism
is a genetic epidemic, but I wanted to throw that out there because whether it's accurate or not has no bearing on whether it's possible.
That being said, though, I (and most researchers in relevant fields) think that the most likely cause for the increase in Autism diagnosis is found in the clinic rather than the gene pool. Higher-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders have been known for close to a century (Asperger's Syndrome, which is by definition high-functioning, was first described during the Third Reich), but clinicians were much more likely to diagnose what's now called ASD in people with severe developmental disability. Greater access to specialists for people in marginal areas, policies geared toward early screening for even milder cases, and more sensitive diagnostic measures have led to more people with high-functioning ASD being diagnosed. The recognition that Autism may present differently in women either due to either genetic reasons or differences in socialization that start in early childhood has also led to a smaller increase in diagnoses. So, Autism probably isn't an actual epidemic, but a hereditary disorder absolutely
can see an increase in relative prevalence between generations.
Moving on, I'm not going to deny that antivaxxers are winning. That doesn't have any relevance to whether they're right or not, though. Harmful ideas can spread through a population despite having no basis in reality, because people are all vulnerable to emotional appeal overriding the reasonability of an argument (myself obviously, included). Add in the fact that it takes education, effort, and oppenness in order to properly evaluate arguments for any given position, and most people are absolute dogshit at forming beliefs that align with objective reality. I'm sure that I, personally, have some major blind spots that cause me to hold a few beliefs that are laughably wrong, but at least I know that. Most people who are wrong are very confidently wrong, which is where shit gets genuinely dangerous
You can win public opinion, only to have your triumphal parade be made up of Medieval skelebros leading you down main street on the pale horse of Revelation, your gleaming head crowned with victory laurels sewn from children's funeral shrouds. Here, enjoy your W.
