Posted on 01/22/2016 10:53:02 AM PST by pabianice
Without any legitimate basis, of course.
I can vouch for that, seeing a friend's cat develop a deadly sarcoma at the injection site of a rabies vaccine. Now, more vets are admitting this risk.
Wonder what they do to humans.
Good question.
Autism is definitely real, as is the increase in the numbers of babies born with it. The collapse of civilization involves the denial we have a growing number of communists among us. Commie denial syndrome, unlike autism can be cured by just opening one’s mind.
It was. Dr. Asperger had to maintain a delicate balance to keep his child patients from being murdered by the Nazis as part of their euthanasia program. His argument was that they weren’t useless subhumans but could be highly skilled at things like codebreaking.
"Without any legitimate basis, of course."
That's just as asinine a statement as those who put vaccines in the cross-hairs. The correct answer is simply that we don't know.
Here's my opinion: It's silly and presumptuous to assume a one-size-fits-all proscription for a public health problem. Humans, though similar basically, also have many differences in physiology and body chemistry. What may be helpful, or at least harmless, in one individual may be toxic in another.
Bottom line, stop being so simplistic.
Interesting. I didn’t know that.
“Did you have any kid in your class that was a bit socially awkward? Nowadays they would be classified as having Aspbergers.”
I was quiet and strange growing up. In fact, a lot of what I read about autism and Aspbergers reminds me of *me* growing up :-). I broke out of my shell around age 13 having not taken a single pill to alter my persona. Knowing my mom, she would have told any doctors suggesting medication to go to hell anyway :-).
I know a few couples that have autistic children. Of those, I feel that only one is truly special needs though I am not a medical professional. One of the other kids seemed really bright despite being very anxious but is now zombified after being on some kind of medication.
There’s a lot of cash behind these diagnoses ... it’s a shame that kids are paying for them with their minds. While I won’t doubt that doctors understand some of the medical science behind these disorders, I can’t see how the human race cranks out so many people suffering from mental disorders. My guess is that various psychiatrists and other, in my opinion, half-wit “doctors” are throwing these pills around like candy after reading a journal or two and getting marketing spiel from drug companies.
No ADA, no federal assistance checks, fewer kook psychologists, fewer screwed up home environments, and the genuinely disabled were not sent to the public schools.
First reason: It's get's them 'attention'.
Second reason: It allows them to escape 'responsibility' for their behavior.
It’s easier and cheaper to use meds than any other type of therapy. I read some book by a Dr who said that he could “cure” most of the psychiatric illnesses today without using meds, but it involved time consuming and expensive types of therapy. And that it was easier and cheaper for all concerned (drs and family members, and insurance companies)to just use medication to mitigate some of the symptoms.
It’s like ADHD. I had a teacher try to tell me my son had ADHD. It was really funny because at the time he was seeing a pretty locally renowned child psychologist at the time (due to issues totally unrelated to school) and the psychologist said point blank that Logan was not ADHD. Logan’s problem in school was that he was a 7 year old boy who did not want to sit quietly and read a book after he finished his math homework ahead of everyone else. But his teacher saw me as a divorced mom, who at the time was lower-income, and she thought that she could bully me into drugging my son to make him sit down and shut up. I gave her his Dr’s card and asked her to call him and discuss it. And that she needed to let me see her doctorate degree before she started throwing out diagnosises
Reason #3: it gets them a ssdi check.
There is only one solution to our ills....
Day care.
The commercials for prescription drugs just get ever more bizarre these days, with pleasant-voiced narrators ticking off possible side-effects ranging from cancer to suicidal thoughts to death. And yet, if there's a one in a million chance any other product might pose a danger, the government swoops in and orders it removed from the shelves.
Big Pharma has a hell of a lobby.
Your logic is fatally flawed. If the answer is unknowable, as you have asserted, then I have to be accurate when I say there is no logical basis for a belief in a position on the issue. So instead of calling names, hold the thought and get a mirror - at least until you are capable of thinking through an issue.
Ping
When did I call names?
When did I fault either side of the theory?
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