tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post4415084737056742508..comments2024-03-19T02:14:17.643-04:00Comments on Adventures in Autism: Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Lori Kozlowski, Rosie Mestel, Thomas Maugh, David Gorski, Virginia Hughes, Science Journalists, The Dying of the LA Times and an Angry Autism MomGinger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-40195880313291353752021-07-05T18:03:16.235-04:002021-07-05T18:03:16.235-04:00
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This is just an amazing piece of work. I ...Ginger,<br /><br />This is just an amazing piece of work. I just want to thank you for sharing this with us.<br />My grandson is non-verbal and he was born in 2006, but he had the unfortunate luck of receiving the Proquad vaccine at 12 months. I believe it was secretly known in Merck's back corridors as the "Autism Vaccine."Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09042253169047928467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-9474589944689503962009-09-21T00:02:29.609-04:002009-09-21T00:02:29.609-04:00Correction for link:
http://www.ageofautism.
com/...Correction for link:<br /><br />http://www.ageofautism.<br />com/2008/10/flu-<br />vaccine-rig.htmlJim Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15642258492097029918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-33341487990779933972009-09-20T23:57:50.898-04:002009-09-20T23:57:50.898-04:00Alison:
Please consider posting mercury “right to...Alison:<br /><br />Please consider posting mercury “right to know” bulletins in your community. <br /><br />See http://www.ageofautism.<br />com/2008/10/flu-vaccine-rig.htmJim Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15642258492097029918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-8956408718983260462009-09-20T23:51:31.766-04:002009-09-20T23:51:31.766-04:00Correction:
Just look at http://www.vaccinesafety...Correction:<br /><br />Just look at http://www.vaccinesafety.<br />edu/thi-table.htm and you see that it has not.Jim Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15642258492097029918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-15806629780067933912009-09-20T23:42:51.738-04:002009-09-20T23:42:51.738-04:00Correction for links:
http://www.vaccinesafety
.e...Correction for links:<br /><br />http://www.vaccinesafety<br />.edu/thi-table.htm <br /><br />http://frwebgate.access.gpo<br />.gov/cgi-bin/get-cfr.cgi?TITLE<br />=40&PART=261&SECTION<br />=24&TYPE=TEXT<br /><br />http://www.cdc.gov/FLU<br />/ABOUT/QA/thimerosal.htm<br /><br />http://www.ageofautism.com<br />/2009/04/the-fable-of-2000-<br />women.html#moreJim Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15642258492097029918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-72611717759341625732009-09-20T23:29:20.719-04:002009-09-20T23:29:20.719-04:00Alison:
You said “I am a mother of two and a scie...Alison:<br /><br />You said “I am a mother of two and a scientist, and I honestly wanted to know whether this proposed link could be real. Thimerosol (mercury) has been removed from vaccines, as I'm sure you know.”<br /><br />Just look at<br /> http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm <br /><br />and you see that has not.<br /><br />And look at<br /> <br />http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/get-cfr.cgi?TITLE=40&PART=261&SECTION=24&TYPE=TEXT <br /><br />and you see that mercury is regulated at a level 25 times lower than that for lead (0.2 parts per million versus 5 parts per million for lead). Both lead and mercury are neurotoxins.<br /><br />Now as a scientists we can clearly see that the mercury levels in a ½ milliliter flu shot at 50 parts per million mercury (25 micrograms of mercury in a one half milliliter shot) is 250 times higher than the USEPA regulatory level of 0.2 ppm for hazardous waste regulatory level (classified as D009) for mercury. And using the dilution factor 20 for a TCLP test (used to determine the leaching rate from the vaccine liquid) still only reduces that ratio to 12.5.<br /><br />So any unused vaccine with mercury, which most flu shots still contain per http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/ABOUT/QA/thimerosal.htm , exceeds the threshold for hazardous waste by 12.5 to 250 times!<br /><br />And please look at http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/04/the-fable-of-2000-women.html#more to read more about the lies published by the CDC.Jim Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15642258492097029918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-36021364279104942582009-09-19T19:41:29.621-04:002009-09-19T19:41:29.621-04:00Allison, it is you who are misinformed, with your ...Allison, it is you who are misinformed, with your statement concerning Thimerosol. "(Mercury) has been removed from vaccines, as I'm sure you know."<br /><br />You also say, "I am a mother of two AND A [emphasis mine] scientist, and I honestly wanted to know whether this proposed link could be real."<br /><br />And since when has "science" been a badge you wear on your arm, touting it like a symbol to signify you're part of an ultra elite club? Because you're a scientist, does that give you and your peers the absolute right to patent and own "science," which must be interpreted through you and then handed down to the rest of us who are the unwashed masses? And those of us uninitiated, like myself (I have a bachelor of arts degree in English literature), are, at best, pathetic and ignorant, and at worse, dangerous heretics for meddling in your field?<br /><br />Let's flip that logic around. As I have some demonstrably proven "expertise" in the field of English literature -- as shown by degree from an accredited university -- I should start belittling, patronizing, and being a 24 karat asshole to anyone who analyzes Dante, or has an opinion on the American transcendentalist movement, if they can't prove that they have some background in the field of literature.<br /><br />Science is NOT a secret club. The fact that corporate and, as Ginger coined, "Skeptic Based" science has run rampant over your field has made it ripe for corruption as well as this bizarre Calvinian idea that you're some sort of Elect caste of people.Josh Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12558573851875174188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-37509528635045102892009-09-18T16:29:10.641-04:002009-09-18T16:29:10.641-04:00Alison,
There is also a question about incidence ...Alison,<br /><br />There is also a question about incidence increasing, but severity decreasing.<br /><br />My son, born in 2002, was the first cohort to get lower dose thimerosal vaccines. And an observation has been made that kids his age and younger seem to be not be as severe, and/or are more easy to recover than kids born in the 1990's (contrast Dan Marino's son with Jenny McCarthy's son). I only know one non-verbal child younger than my son (clear vaccine regression, multiple obvious hits, with seizures, admitted to hospital, mainstream ped has apologized and admits is was his shots). All the others are older than my son.<br /><br />Not enough time has passed, and no studies of severity of autism have been done as far as I know, but it is something that we are curious about.<br /><br />Just something to keep on your radar if indeed you really want to consider all the variants involved in the vaccine/autism connection.<br /><br />GingerGinger Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-83043011911804263962009-09-18T16:10:50.941-04:002009-09-18T16:10:50.941-04:00...
And no one gets into this field to poison c......<br /><br /><br /><br />And no one gets into this field to poison children. The largest part of the problem is denial. It is the giant egos who couldn't consider that they might be really wrong. Smart people really like to be smart, and hate being wrong, and have a long history of not facing their mistakes until they are forced (if ever). What is evident (even from the response that has been written to this piece) is that "they" are STILL unwilling to look at themselves (and Allison, again are proving my point in not even considering the fault of your own community... you are STILL just trying to find fault in me). Those in the sciences might have accepted a wrong premise way back in the process, and believe that it is for the "greater good" that those premises not be challenged.<br /><br />There is an epidemic of "I am a good person" disease due to a mass rejection of the humility vaccine.<br /><br />"Before I conclude, the scientist in me is compelled to point out that there are many confounding factors to the experiment that you are doing. Many of the unvaccinated kids may contract the illnesses that the vaccines were meant to prevent, and even if a decline in autism is observed in the unvaccinated population, it will be very challenging to discern which of the different agents in all of the vaccines actually contribute to causation."<br /><br />Yep. <br /><br />But it is where you start. <br /><br />And it is where we should have started decades ago, when our kids were only getting ten shots, not now when they are getting dozens.<br /><br />And you do it anyway because when a parent is making vaccine decisions, and they are due, as is their absolute right, to informed consent. If the CDC et al claim that "the benefits" of vaccinating according to CDC schedule "outweigh the risks", then it is damn well their burden to prove it. <br /><br />Right now they cannot prove that. They cannot even begin to prove that.<br /><br />Yet they say it anyway.<br /><br />"Genomics studies could provide clues too." They absolutely can and will... but my arguement is that it is unethical for millions and decades to continued to be poured into long term research at the expense of environmental causation and treatment research that can alleviate the sickness and suffering of a child TODAY.<br /><br />I wrote a two part piece years ago, the second of which makes the analogy that my child is in a <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2005/08/hurry-up-offense.html" rel="nofollow">burning building</a>, and the medical and research communities believe that an appropriate response is to form a committee to study to studing wiring hazards and how and building materials are to blame for house fires.<br /><br />The system is broken Allison, and the public is starting to get that now. <br /><br />When big lazy fatasses like me start to criticize the "just take this pill/shot" approach and embraces the wellness movement, that is a pretty good sign that the public's had enough of mainstream med's nonsense and that their credibility problems are severe.<br /><br />So tell me... as a scientist... do you have the capacity to look at your field, and even yourself and admit, yes we have problems and we need to start dealing with our own crap if we want to stop the trust landslide that is happening?<br /><br />Or will you continue to find fault in your customers for not buying your faulty product?Ginger Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-48510746752720063612009-09-18T16:10:35.764-04:002009-09-18T16:10:35.764-04:00...
"Your distrust of anyone or any study sh......<br /><br />"Your distrust of anyone or any study showing data to the contrary, however, greatly diminishes your credibility."<br /><br />Now Allison, did I say that I distrusted ANYONE who presents data contrary to my own theories? Don't put words in my mouth.<br /><br />I distrust people who show a long history of being untrustworthy. People who do not work in good faith. People who, like you are doing now, make straw man arguments. <br /><br />I distrust people who act in bad faith and whose actions show that they are not earnest, and are not actually looking for the answers to all the questions in autism. People who claim to be scientists and declare "case closed" before the major pieces of evidence are even in, should not be considered earnest. Or even real scientists.<br /><br />When someone comes out with research contrary to my experience, as an autism mom and a health consumer, it only takes about two or three questions of them before it becomes evident who is earnest and who is full of bologa.<br /><br />The Bolognamen suddenly become unavailable or start trashing you when you ask a legitimate question that they cannot answer. Those who are legit admit the limits of the research, the conflicts of interest and eventually will say... 'you know what... I don't know the answer to that question... here are some potential next questions to further test this theory or follow up this study'.<br /><br />And the earnest ones admit that the relevant questions have not been "asked and answered".<br /><br />Additionally... the thimerosal studies are suspect at best. Fombonne studies mercury excretion, from the blood only, not tissues, in typical children, not children with autism... and people claim that it supports the fact that vaccines don't cause autism? Really?<br /><br /><a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2005/08/heres-why-disdain.html" rel="nofollow">Verstraeten is so bad</a> that an entire book is written about is problems and the shenanigans surrounding it, it is quietly disavowed by <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/cdc-vaccine-study-design_b_108398.html" rel="nofollow">Julie Gerberding in a secret report to congress</a>, the pharma dependent media never reports on it, CDC never retracts the study, AAP never informs peds and CDC still uses it as one of their "fifteen very good studies" to pretend to exonerate thimerosal? Seriously?<br /><br />Professor <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2009/07/whew-our-kids-dont-have-bowel-problems.html" rel="nofollow">Alan Emond</a>, puts out a study saying children with autism don't have gut problems, but fails to mention that he is on the UK panel that approves vaccines? Right.<br /><br />I could go on and on... and I have for five years. And I make it a habit of contacting people/institutions/agencies before I write about them to make sure I am not wrong in my conclusions. Guess what.. they can't be bothered.<br /><br />Yes... I am totally off base in my cynical stance.<br /><br />I don't know you, you may be the loveliest person in the world and rescue lost puppies in your free time, but I would encourage you to consider whether skeptic meter is tuned into the right group.<br /><br />These are earnest people to you? Really? Their behavior is abysmal. How stupid would I be, knowing all this, and deciding... 'well (flutter of eyelashes) scientists are smart and I should just ignore all this, and my own eyes, and tons of other research that contradicts them and just do what they tell me'.<br /><br />"You must acknowledge that there is some legitimate science being done, and that everyone involved in medicine or medical research is not out to poison the children."<br /><br />Of course I do, again... please stop pretending that I have not. This is not about everyone in science, as the end of my piece has declared. It is about the bull shit artists.<br /><br />cont...Ginger Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-31668970835057169302009-09-18T16:10:04.226-04:002009-09-18T16:10:04.226-04:00Allison,
"If there is any link between vacci...Allison,<br /><br />"If there is any link between vaccines and autism, the many parents like this one... are effectively volunteering their kids as subjects for an experiment."<br /><br />And the same can be said of any parent who is vaccinating according to the CDC schedule. <br /><br />As I mentioned, there is no research on the schedule as a whole, nor on the vaccine combo that my son got at 18 months before he regressed.<br /><br />The difference is, a mom who chooses to take the risk with the diseases has informed consent on what those diseases can do, and other options to prevent them. A mom like me who chooses the risk with the vaccines does not have informed consent, because even CDC is admits that they don't know what vaccines or their components actually do, and pharma says they don't even know how adjuvants work.<br /><br />"Unfortunately, you don't seem to be willing to believe that anyone who presents any data contradictory to your theory could possibly be honestly searching for the truth, so you would probably even reject the results of a study like that."<br /><br />Allison, with all due respect, I have spent five years engaging anyone who would speak to me. BEGGING them to fill the holes between what the research actually says, and what they are claiming it says. The idea that you have pre-decided what I will do, based on something that I have not done in the past, is just poor logic.<br /><br />As has been pointed out... Hg has not been removed from vaccines, and research is clear that it can cause mito dysfunction at nanomolar amounts, far less than are in current so called "trace amount" vaccines.<br /><br />One theory as to why HHS concede Poling and admitted that mito+vaccines=autism ('scuse me... "symptoms of autism" what a joke) is that Dr. Poling was going into court to argue his triple hit hypothesis. First thimerosal containing vaccines set up the mito disorder, subsequent rounds exacerbated, last round caused autistic regression. <br /><br />By conceding the last bit and paying Hannah, they could avoid the case being made that the mito dysfunction was also caused by Thimerosal, which again... can happen at nanomolar amounts.<br /><br /><a href="http://http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15869795?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum" rel="nofollow">Mitochondrial mediated thimerosal-induced apoptosis in a human neuroblastoma cell line (SK-N-SH)</a>.<br><br>Neurotoxicology. 2005 <br /><br /><a href="http://http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16273274?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum" rel="nofollow">Thimerosal induces neuronal cell apoptosis by causing cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor release from mitochondria.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://jcn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/170" rel="nofollow">Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Child With Autism</a><br><br>Journal of Child Neurology / Volume 21, Number 2, February 2006<br>Jon S. Poling, MD, PhD,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.scipub.org/fulltext/ajbb/ajbb42198-207.pdf" rel="nofollow">Mitochondrial Energy-Deficient Endophenotype in Autism</a><br><br>American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 4 (2): 198-207, 2008<br /><br /><a href="http://www.marthaherbert.com/Anderson,%20Hooker,%20Herbert%202008%20AJBB.pdf" rel="nofollow">Bridging from Cells to Cognition in Autism Pathophysiology: Biological<br>Pathways to Defective Brain Function and Plasticity</a><br /><br /><a href="http://montanaim.com/pubs/Heavy_Metals_Article.pdf" rel="nofollow">Heavy-Metal Toxicity—With Emphasis on Mercury</a><br><br>John Neustadt, ND, and Steve Pieczenik, MD, PhD<br /><br />cont...Ginger Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-58694690286012225772009-09-18T13:36:28.554-04:002009-09-18T13:36:28.554-04:00Hi Allison. With all due respect, thimerosal has N...Hi Allison. With all due respect, thimerosal has NOT been removed from vaccines. This is one of the most commonly quoted misstatements in the media and from doctors (including my former ped. and OB). H.R. 2617 is currently being REintroduced to try and put a definitive end to thimerosal in vaccines. The recommendation to stop using Hg in vaccines came out 10 yrs ago, but there is still legislation needed for compliance. Now, SOME vaccines DECREASED their Hg content in 2002, but shortly thereafter, the CDC added Hg-containing FLU SHOTS to the schedule for children and pregnant women. Also, many shots the CDC considers thimerosal-free still contain "traces" of Hg. The cumulative totals of these "trace" amts (when adding up the several shots a baby gets at once) can exceed the EPA's limits for Hg exposure in a full-grown adult. I, like many others, relied on the misinformation that Hg was no longer in vaccines when we decided to follow the CDC's schedule as-is in 2005-07 for our twins (as well as when I let my OB give me a flu shot at 7.5 mos. pregnant). My OB told me that thimerosal was out of vaccines when I hesitated taking the flu shot. I had heard that on the news and she was saying it to my face, so I believed it. It was AFTER I got the shot that I realized the shot I rec'd had the full-dose of thimerosal in it. Both of my twins have autism today.<br />Now, I don’t believe my doctors intentionally lied to me. I believe they repeated what they’ve been told by the CDC/AAP-but the end-result is irresponsible, and leaves me no choice but to acknowledge that I cannot take comfort in the safety assurances of safety that come from our public health entities.<br />Until my kids got sick, I took at face value what was reported by the respected media outlets; I was a rule-follower, and it was hard for me to believe that something as big as a nat'l vaccine program could be as flawed as it is. But now that we've spent countless hours researching this issue, I know that many public statements made on this topic are false. The continually-repeated mantra that Hg is out of vaccines is just one example. Another BIG misrepesentation is that FDA-approval and CDC-recommendation only come after a vaccine has been proven safe/effective. The PACKAGE INSERT from Sanofi Pastuer for the flu shots I rec'd when pregnant and that my babies rec'd says this:<br /><br />“SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS HAVE NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED IN PREGNANT OR LACTATING WOMEN, AND IN PEDIATRIC OR GERIATRIC POPULATIONS.”<br /><br />It goes on to say: “IT IS NOT KNOWN WHETHER INFLUENZA VIRUS VACCINE, H5N1, CAN CAUSE FETAL HARM WHEN ADMINISTERED TO A PREGNANT WOMAN.”<br /><br />And: “NO DATA ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE PEDIATRIC POPULATION (AGES LESS THAN 18 YEARS). SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF INFLUENZA VIRUS VACCINE, H5N1, IN PEDIATRIC POPULATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED.”<br /><br />So the AAP's Dr. Margaret Fisher's statement on Larry King in April re: recommended vaccines:<br />"Only if it's been determined to be safe and effective is it recommended for use" is blatantly FALSE...<br />The misleading argument (that was even used on the recent Dateline episode) that autism rates continue to rise after thimerosal was removed from vaccines in 2002 is pointless since the Hg exposure via vaccination continues today.<br />Finally, I just want to say, I think very few (if ANY) of us parents affected by autism believe it's JUST the thimerosal. You have to look at the entire vaccine schedule and the cummulative effects of what all our children are getting from birth on, as well as the many other toxic assaults our kids face today. But until our gov't, our public health officials and our medical industry stop protecting pharmaceutical interests and JUST look for the TRUTH, the public will continue to be misled and confused by the double-talk that comes out of the CDC, AAP and their trusty doctors. Best of luck to you and yours. I truly hope you never learn these lessons the hard way. It took our sons' illnesses to open our eyes. Take care, Sunnyspolitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02224183621349178962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-9922366008169022312009-09-18T11:24:57.455-04:002009-09-18T11:24:57.455-04:00First I have to say thank you. You give words to p...First I have to say thank you. You give words to people like me who have the same feelings but don't know how to use them in fighting words. <br /><br />I regret that I was persuaded to vaccinate my son. I have used this quote on my blog to describe what I felt when I discovered the corruption of the whole industry.<br /><br />"The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief [. . .] of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."<br />Elizabeth Bennett in Jane Austen's Pride and PrejudiceCeleste Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976851844941457838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-39989054799153633762009-09-18T10:53:59.327-04:002009-09-18T10:53:59.327-04:00If there is any link between vaccines and autism, ...If there is any link between vaccines and autism, the many parents like this one:<br /><br />"Your posts convinced me not to vax -- at least not yet. And so my daughter is the first of six grandkids who hasn't been vaccinated."<br /><br />are effectively volunteering their kids as subjects for an experiment. The growing population of unvaccinated children should show a decline in autism rates if you are right. <br /><br />Unfortunately, you don't seem to be willing to believe that anyone who presents any data contradictory to your theory could possibly be honestly searching for the truth, so you would probably even reject the results of a study like that.<br /><br />I am a mother of two and a scientist, and I honestly wanted to know whether this proposed link could be real. Thimerosol (mercury) has been removed from vaccines, as I'm sure you know. <br /><br />The observed rates of autism have not changed as a result. I realize that you propose a host of other agents in vaccines that may also be causing autism, and I don't discount the possibility that one of those may legitimately be harmful. Your distrust of anyone or any study showing data to the contrary, however, greatly diminishes your credibility. <br /><br />You must acknowledge that there is some legitimate science being done, and that everyone involved in medicine or medical research is not out to poison the children. <br /><br />Before I conclude, the scientist in me is compelled to point out that there are many confounding factors to the experiment that you are doing. Many of the unvaccinated kids may contract the illnesses that the vaccines were meant to prevent, and even if a decline in autism is observed in the unvaccinated population, it will be very challenging to discern which of the different agents in all of the vaccines actually contribute to causation. <br /><br />My personal belief is that there is something causative "out there," but we haven't found it yet. The insistence that it has to be vaccines is myopic.<br /><br />Genomics studies could provide clues too.<br /><br />Good luck!<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />AllisonAllison Williams Dobsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797198678027025918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-65272726649505750862009-09-16T23:49:20.904-04:002009-09-16T23:49:20.904-04:00Hi Ginger
Change is slow, but is coming
A new manu...Hi Ginger<br />Change is slow, but is coming<br />A new manuscript on the September issue of Annals of Epidemiology<br />"Hepatitis B Vaccination of Male Neonates and Autism"<br /> Annals of Epidemiology Vol. 19, No. 9 ABSTRACTS (ACE) September 2009: 651-680 p. 659 (Medical research journal. – ed)<br /> CM Gallagher, MS Goodman, Graduate Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY<br />a part of the results on 1997-2002 datasets from the manuscript<br /><br />RESULTS: Boys who received the hepatitis B vaccine during the first month of life had 2.94 greater odds for ASD (nZ31 of 7,486; OR Z 2.94; p Z 0.03; 95% CI Z 1.10, 7.90) compared to later- or unvaccinated boys.María Lujánhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05619003228550909446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-29423442548291744002009-09-16T10:30:33.249-04:002009-09-16T10:30:33.249-04:00Wow, Ginger! I have been a huge fan of yours since...Wow, Ginger! I have been a huge fan of yours since shortly after my twins were dx'd and I found your blog. You speak the truth, you ask the important (and reasonable) questions, and you call bullshit "bullshit". Thank you so much for the amazing work you do. I so admire your ability to stay focused on the questions (the important questions that remain unanswered and unacknowledged after so many years of back-and-forth)... Once I started reading this, I couldn't stop. I was cheering you on out loud and yelling back at their patronizing, pathetic replies... You say exactly what needs to be said and you say it BRILLIANTLY. I am so sorry for the personal frustration I know you had to endure for this exchange. I am so grateful to you for continuing to hold their feet to the fire and call them out for their disservice to our children. Your work is so refreshing to me. It truly rejuventates me to get back out and face the battles that we parents fight every single day. You are a God-send to this community and I am so grateful to you. May God bless you and your precious family abundantly---you, my friend, certainly deserve it! Sunny from Dallas, TXspolitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02224183621349178962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-8571448591987078412009-09-16T01:28:45.328-04:002009-09-16T01:28:45.328-04:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um9KAGLbZKIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um9KAGLbZKIJim Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15642258492097029918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-53263008743493200612009-09-15T22:23:51.107-04:002009-09-15T22:23:51.107-04:00Ginger .... Amen.
I understand being compelled to...Ginger .... Amen.<br /><br />I understand being compelled to write to them too. Occasionally they write back. I was fine until I got to your description of our day, man ... that hits home.Life as the mother of 4https://www.blogger.com/profile/16195257033811529612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-14760485080040172892009-09-15T17:14:57.073-04:002009-09-15T17:14:57.073-04:00Brilliant job!!!! Next time you write to some &quo...Brilliant job!!!! Next time you write to some "science" writer I hope you feel energized knowing that you speak for so many families who have been effected by autism, not to mention all the, as yet, unborn children who may or may not be overvaccinated in the future. If enough of us shout loud enough, long enough, we'll get through to the majority.Jenny Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14112471946658154286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-54088435552101135132009-09-15T16:39:06.599-04:002009-09-15T16:39:06.599-04:00i agree w/the poster on AofA... about the narcisis...i agree w/the poster on AofA... about the narcisistic personality disorder (w/which unfortunately i'm very familiar). Regardless of whether or not you ever recieve the answers or acknowledgements from these people you deserve.... Know that you've most definitely informed MANY new parents... far more than they ever could. Passion and knowledge trumps arrogant indifference any & every day. I'm one of those parents, I'm not so new anymore. I am informed, and armed at the Dr's office. But I'm also grateful. Thank you.roxtarchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16254892270303616483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-9233891345443393412009-09-15T13:25:55.272-04:002009-09-15T13:25:55.272-04:00Ginger,
I often tell people that if I can stop one...Ginger,<br />I often tell people that if I can stop one person, one child, from having to suffer through the pain of Autism, then I have done my part in this world. I can sleep at night.<br /><br />Hearing such encouraging things from someone who you may have helped through your trials and tribulations is a wonderful feeling. It also makes all of the slurs, the attacks, the name-calling, etc. worth it. I'll gladly suffer through more if I can prevent another child from suffering like my son has.<br /><br />P.S. JB, when everything finally comes crashing down, I would like to be there with you, sipping a beer and watching it. Too bad some of these idiots (i.e. Orac and AutismNewsBeat) will just walk away scott-free to continue being asses. I seriously doubt that, when the connection is publicized, they will ever apologize. These are heartless, souless monsters.MySocratesNotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01823121688925710624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-21316294834378623502009-09-15T13:20:59.498-04:002009-09-15T13:20:59.498-04:00AWESOMEAWESOMEquicksilverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05119450121214867658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-21796756345425616932009-09-15T10:22:07.774-04:002009-09-15T10:22:07.774-04:00you are now my hero. Thank you for taking up the ...you are now my hero. Thank you for taking up the cannons and leading a charge. And now i'm going to go send this link EVERYWHERE. maybe someone will pay attention. <br />Joy<br />Another mama to a little boy with the label "autistic regression syndrome"Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05224247762774860763noreply@blogger.com