John Stossel column

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http://jewishworldreview.com/0207/stossel022807.php3

Interesting. I actually do have a friend who really does believe that autism is caused by vaccinations. Maybe I should actually try to deal with that. I might not though given that he does a lot of research and tends to be somewhat dogmatic.

Amen to John Stossel, I've liked other works of his. I thought Offit's comments about trendy dx were flip and inaccurate. I know adults who could have benefitted from early diagnosis and understanding, if not actual services.

Normally I think John Stossel is a sanctimonious and shallow doofus who caters to the lowest common denominator, and is a victim of circular thinking, but he was pretty right on in this article.

I find it interesting that the dx of retardation has dropped almost in the same proportion as dx of autism has increased in California. Then what about the rate of aborted Down's Syndrome fetuses? Or is the rate of Down's Syndrome not as high in the population to impact the change in dx?

Just wondering. It's just too bad that people who are so convinced that mercury is the cause of autism can't open up their minds to the vast amounts of peer reviewed research that shows that mercury doesn't cause autism and instead cling to spurious and vampiric groups who prey on them for their own benefit in most cases.

Metta, Rjaye.

That caught my eye, too. I wonder about it. I have a bil who was "born ret*d" (that's how the family expresses it) but received numerous and varied therapies throughout his childhood and adolesence. Now he has a master's degree, a job, a wife, and a child. I look at him and I see autism. But he was born in 1960 or so, before there was an autism dx. So he was "ret*d." I wonder how many people are out there like that.

My arm swelled up to enourmous size when I got my diptheria/whooping cough/cowpox vaccine. I remember being really sick. My uncle told my later in life that they thought they were gonna lose me, and hearing that several other little girls got sick and died there in the neighborhood from the vaccines.

But I see pictures of me before the vaccine. The darting eyes, the zombie stare. I don't think I 'went Aspie' because of mercury in the vaccine. I probably have some other dread disorder from it, but probably not the Aspergers.
Merle