Thursday - January 06, 2011

Lost Post: Autism Study A Fraud

Drat, I lost a whole post from last night. Beats me what happened. No time to write it over again, so here’s the main link.

It looks like the past 12 years of parental panic over measles vaccine (MMR) being a cause of autism in children has been a con. A fraudulent bit of “science” by a paid-off doctor.

I had heard at one point that it was the mercury used as part of the preservative in the vaccine that was the problem. That too has been discredited.

Not surprisingly, with the public fear of the side effects of the vaccine, many parents are not getting their children immunized. Thus measles is on the rise, and the number of cases right now is higher than in the past 12 years. Great.

Lawsuits against the vaccine companies are being thrown out in the USA. No proof, bad science; no case. Buh bye.

Other research into the causes of autism is focusing on heavy metals poisoning (lead, cadmium, etc), even though the levels of those elements in our daily lives is far lower today than it has ever been. And I mean ever, going right back to the Roman Empire.

So why are the cases of autism on the rise? I don’t know. Research has shown that there are certain genetic conditions that may show a predisposition for it, but that in itself is not a cause, merely an indication of susceptibility. Have the definitions been broadened so that a much wider population is now categorized that way? We have seen that happen with “dangerous levels of lead” toxicity over the past 50 years: today’s “danger” level is below the “who cares” level from the late 1950s. In most places (across the USA at least) the air and water is much cleaner than it was when I was a kid. Is infant mortality down so much that significantly more children are living long enough to have this syndrome diagnosed? Are misdiagnoses becoming common? Again, I don’t know, although I don’t think the US infant mortality rates have improved all that much in the past couple of decades. Preservatives in our food? Corn syrup? Artificial ingredients? Is this rise endemic to the USA or is it worldwide? I have no answers; I know just about nothing about autism. I’ve known only one child in my whole life with autism, and there was no way that was a misdiagnosis in his case.

I had a whole bunch of links, but this stuff is pretty easy to Google up, or just read the article and follow the link to the Chart blog.

Posted by Drew458     on 01/06/2011 at 10:40 AM   
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