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- Hey dannyhorn,
just where exactly are cash strapped parents supposed to get the money to fund such studies?
The federal government officals, who either weren't paying attention to the expsoure rates or neglecting to do anything about it because of fear to their program (and might face criminal prosecution) or the pharmaceutical companies, who are worried about liability (inserting riders into law admonishing them from litiagtion) and only seem interested in funding genetic studies to make drugs to treat and profit from this disorder rather than look for the causes and dealing with those?
Other parents,
I am certainly not saying "all" autism on the spectrum was manifested from this source but please support us who witnessed first hand what happened in our instances. A "spectrum disorder" could very well be due to several things with similar manifestations.
I watched my son react and change, as if the soul had been taken from him following his 15 month shots.
As a scientist myself I know correlation does not always mean cause - but sometimes correlations DO point to the cause. - Reply to this comment
- I am continuously amazed by parents of autistic children who don't want to find out the causes of autism. Forgive me for not having an autistic child but wanting to find a way to keep new children from suffering. I am all for helping autistic children and adults be productive in society, but I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time here. Lets help ALL the children. You may not wish to view your child as "damaged" but make no mistake your child IS suffering. Why do you want to stop other parents from getting answers - answers that may stop more suffering - answers that would put parents minds at ease about vaccinating their kids? Just because you have made peace with your child's condition does not mean we should give up trying to prevent autism in other children. In so doing, we may find ways to make your child's life that much easier.
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- Dannyhorn said:
It's a basic principle of science that you can't "prove" a negative. The burden of proof is on the person who's making the claim.
Wrong.
The law for the regulation of drugs including vaccines and other biological preparations classified as drugs, explicitly require that all drugs (as the term is defined in 21 U.S.C. Section 321(g)(1)13, including any component used in a drug [21 U.S.C. Section 321(g)(1)(D)])must be SAFE (based on the definition of SAFE in 21 U.S.C.Section 321(u)14)and effective in human and animals.
Personally, I can't recall ONE STUDY where mercury, a KNOWN NEUROTOXIN, is determined to be SAFE.
So no Danny. The burden is not for me to prove that a neurotoxin injected into individuals is UNSAFE (although I personally think it's a no brainer)....Rather the burden is on the "person" who declares its SAFETY....and in this case, that would rest with the manufacturer who places it in their product.
Kelli Ann Davis - Reply to this comment
- Thank you Sharyl, finally a journalist with the integrity to look beyond what is being spun as "science vs. parents" regarding vaccines implications into the autism epidemic. It is unbelievable how little or biased the coverage has been on this topic. Those of us who have lived this experience deserve at the very least fair and objective coverage.
Laura Cellini - Reply to this comment
- Thank you cbsnews and Sheryl for being FAIR and not one sided.
This is much better than the "control the message" we have seen from other MSM sources.
Such as:
NBC's Snydeerman - who is a VP of a company facing litigation
or NPR's "we cant find any experts" to say the contrary. So they put on a shrink and a vaccine industry shill to talk "expertly" about mercury instead of a toxicologist. - Reply to this comment
- Sharyl Attkisson is (once again, and always) a breath of fresh air - a fearless voice - and this post is as articulate and honest as it gets.
As for Katie - I seem to recall taking a bit of a dump on her in a discussion forum a while back for her work on an unrelated story - then I see this posted on her blog - Katie steps up too - so this is me eating crow.
thank you both
-randy - Reply to this comment
- Strident voices?
Is that a crime?
We happen to feel we are right, as do tens of thousands of other parents, about 4,800 of whom have filed lawsuits to make their voice heard. And, we applaud all of them.
If you are a parent, read for yourself:
www.generationrescue.org
Respectfully,
JB Handley
Generation Rescue
Portland, OR - Reply to this comment
- You neglected to list a couple of additional reasons this debate still drags on:
-- There is lots of money to be made (mostly by lawyers) if they can get a court to declare vaccines cause autism.
-- "Alternative" healthcare practitioners already are making lots of money selling questionable, expensive therapies and products to parents who believe their children's autism was caused by vaccines.
I think it's telling that Generation Rescue, one of the most strident voices implicating vaccines in autism, finds your story "fair and balanced."
And to say people "don't know what's causing the epidemics" ignores the fact that researchers have presented strong evidence that there is no "epidemic" -- that the rise in autism diagnoses is due to greater awareness and the vastly broadened criteria for what is considered part of the autism spectrum. Are you even aware of this?
Personally, i am no great fan of pharma companies, and i'm not really interested in defending them. But plenty of us parents of autistic children choose not to look upon our kids as "poisoned" or "damaged," or as victims. And we see the vaccine hysteria as pulling crucial attention and resources away from research and education that might actually help our kids -- and others'. - Reply to this comment
- Thank you for the only unbiased, logical article on this topic I have seen. I have been following this story for many years. The latest research in February of 2007 that showed a genetic link to autism was linked to the genes that code for Glutamate neurotransmission. Glutamate is found in the MMR vaccine. Gelatin is 10% free glutamic acid and gluten and casein are very high in free glutamate as well. These parents aren't imagining things. They are noticing things. It all makes sense, when you consider that free glutamate lowers glutathione levels and glutathione is what chelates mercury. So, with glutamate and mercury in the same vaccine, you are both poisoning the child with mercury and removing their means of getting rid of that mercury. Glutamate to a child with a genetic problem handling glutamate as a neurotransmitter, and neurotoxic mercury may be creating a perfect recipe for brain injury when added to the normal inflammation from one vaccine, let alone many at the same time. Glutamate increases histamine response. Please see http://www.msgtruth.org/autism.htm for information about the link between free glutamate - found in vaccines and foods, and autism. We just may need to remove mercury and free glutamate from vaccines and space the vaccines out for children under 7. We test kids for PKU at birth and treat them carefully till age 7, why don't we treat these children with autism genes the same until the brain is hardwired?
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- "Autism: Why The Debate Rages"
"Excellent"
Thank You again Sharyl!!
Adrian Prokofiew
County of Hunterdon
Flemington NJ 08822 - Reply to this comment
