TY - GEN ID - cogprints9812 UR - http://cogprints.org/9812/ A1 - Clarke, Robin P Y1 - 2014/12/11/ N2 - This paper was originally written for a very different audience around 25 years ago, since when a great deal has changed both in autism research and in the wider world. Thus there was no mention of mercury (of which I knew almost nothing at the time) or of the autism increase (of which no-one else knew much either back then). And also I have become much more experienced in writing than back then. And paper-printed journals were very hostile to ?excessive? length such that at least one paragraph got rather more squashed than I am happy to see it now. So for these reasons I am making some minor changes to the writing, which do not change the actual content or meaning but which make for a better reading experience. For the convenience of cynics I will list all those changes at the end. In addition I am adding in some update notes in the text, indicated thus: [2014 Update: blah blah...] PB - Pergamon Press KW - autism KW - theory KW - IQ KW - gene-expression TI - A Theory of General Reduction of Gene-Expression Manifesting as Autism (1993 with 2014 revisions of presentation) SP - 465 AV - public EP - 482 ER -