Correlation =/= causation.
For too long, fearmongers have been using people’s ignorance of that fact to convince them that, because autism is often diagnosed when children are receiving many of their vaccines, the vaccines are to blame, although there never was evidence of a causative relationship.
Now that thimerasol has been let off the hook, no doubt they’ll jump to some other factor that happens to correlate chronologically with the diagnosis of autism and blame that.
Of course there is a rise in autism rates: the basis for diagnosis just keeps growing and growing, so that more and more children are being caught in that net. If these children now being branded “autistic” were evaluated under the standards of 50 years ago, would the diagnosis be the same?
This trend towards trying to find a pathology in every child (so that there is an excuse to drug the child into passivity) is extremely troubling.
Recently I came across a world of research on the internet about one of those new theories. Seems some of the kids had celiac disease (congenital allergy to wheat protein called Gluten). So, they studied that, and for those who had celiac, getting rid of the gluten improved their behavior. It didn't cure their autism, but I gather parents of autistic kids are glad for any relief.
The chemists then began examining the world of peptides to see if any of them could be slipping through the intestinal walls and getting to the brain.
Well, they discovered casein (a milk protein) has the same shape as gluten. Cut that out and some kids improve.
It's all intresting stuff but the research to date demonstrates that while some of us have inherited allergies to gluten and casein and other stuff, those things DO NOT CAUSE autism.
The autistic, like everyone else, suffer allergies!
The researchers are continuing their look for elements in the diet, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is that white folks eat that gives them 10 times the autism rate of black folks.
I’ve read that the thimerasol is still in the Hep B vaccinations which they recommend 3 doses in young infants (My children had no such shots) According to my son, they told him it is highly recommended to get flu shots in a 2 mo. old.....the flu shots still have the thimerasol in them. The shots recommended for infants and toddlers have tripled in the last few years. Where are the vaccinations made??? Do we really no what is in them???? Don’t be so trusting.
Mercury poisoning acts exactly like autism.......look up the symptoms of both. They are identical. Also, why would the Amish population have virtually no autism in their population? (that is unless they get their child vaccinated or expose their children to high doses of mercury)?
An article here on FR a while ago mentioned that many doctors are reluctant to tell parents that their children are mildy retarded. Instead they describe them as autistic.
Maybe these "doctors" should be looking at what's wrogn with themselves instead.