tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473669599815076150.post544644665834392536..comments2024-01-01T07:10:00.118-08:00Comments on Autism Causes .info: What evidence there is of effectiveness of chelation for autism, and what evidence that there is no mercury-autism connection anyway.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473669599815076150.post-26248227746893153412012-12-02T05:52:04.425-08:002012-12-02T05:52:04.425-08:00you're a complete and utter quack, you areyou're a complete and utter quack, you areAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473669599815076150.post-67706043947883716342010-10-18T12:40:36.258-07:002010-10-18T12:40:36.258-07:00Jonathan, Thanks for your comments but as a mercur...Jonathan, Thanks for your comments but as a mercury-poisoned person myself I have to limit my activities (as per AHC book p71) and so I'm just limiting myself currently to saying that MMR wasn't a noticeable cause of the increase. In my less intensive moments I'm crawling through Paul Offit's indecent book and have got to page 58 where he does a bungled job of attempting to gloss over his preference for not telling the public the whole truth -- need I say more. <br /><br />But doesn't Offit give a fine summary of the MMR thesis here (page 20-21)?: "He proposed that after MMR vaccine was injected into the arm, the measles vaccine virus traveled to the intestine and caused infection and inflammation. Harmful proteins, now able to pass through a damaged intestine, entered the bloodstream and eventually the brain, causing autism." <br /><br />You say his findings have been replicated rather than debunked, but doesn't it depend which thesis the findings of you are referring to? The MMR claims were reviewed in the recent Omnibus Autism Proceedings judgement and while I wouldn't credit it with absolute impartiality it did seem to give quite good rationales for dismissing key planks of the case. For instance Unigenetics' tests being bunk. <br /><br />However, the problem is that with allegations and counter-allegations like this, an outside observer is forced to either leaps of faith or to remain agnostic as I do. The fact that Wakefield's enemies acted disgracefully does not have a logical implication that his own side was therefore morally or factually sound or honest. <br /><br />His MMR epidemiology was certainly rubbish (but then it seems so was most other contributers' anyway, indeed I'm not sure why they bother having courses on the subject!). I do suspect however that he has made a genuinely important discovery of an autism-bowel link, but as the forces of darkness have to character-assassinate him for the MMR "crime", they have to lie about that discovery too. I guess.<br /><br />There's plenty evidence that autism is not an "illness" and has multiple causes. But of course those causes do include illnesses such as infections.<br /><br />I thought the recovered children were due to mercury-removal chelation inspired by DAN/ARI/Safeminds/BoydHaley and unrelated to AW's studies. <br /><br />Last I heard of Autism File was that the forces of darkness have bullied newsagents into not stocking it. In accordance with the abovementioned page 58 of Saint Paul Offit's autism bible I guess.Robin P Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03395391589008969720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473669599815076150.post-62329807951781586472010-10-18T10:46:50.327-07:002010-10-18T10:46:50.327-07:00Good article - and useful too. However, I suggest...Good article - and useful too. However, I suggest you get hold of the book "Callous Disregard" by Andrew Wakefield to learn the true story of the MMR controversy. Incidentally, his findings have not been debunked, as the Big Pharma propagandists claim, they've been replicated in at least 7 different independent studies. It's not quite accurate to say Wakefield had a 'hypothesis'. What he found was data that suggested an association between measles virus, mumps virus, the MMR vaccine and Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Autism. All he did was suggest that MMR might not be entirely safe and more research was needed. Since then, other doctors have conducted more research - not enough to provide a viable hypothesis - but interesting nonetheless. There is now more evidence to show a link between Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome and Autism. In other words, the evidence is accruing that autism is not a genetic brain disorder but an illness caused by infection. Progress is slow because medical academia - controlled as it is by Big Pharma - refuses to provide grant funding for this line of research. Over 95% of the autism-related research grants go to geneticists or psychologists.<br />The 'recovered children' you refer to are a result of the independent research triggered by Andrew Wakefield's studies. You can find more info about them from the Autism File (autismfile.com)Jonathan Gemshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12023837124249480202noreply@blogger.com