Comments about ‘Redirect autism research’

Sounds eerily similar to the "global warming" fiasco.

Dr. Bryan Jepson BA'91 MD95 is one of the Medical Doctors that work with Dr. Wakefield in Texas. He has (had) a child that was diagnosed with autism. When his wife started using alternative methods of treating their son and found improvements, was shocked because it didn't go along with what he was taught in Medical school. You can read his story more in his book "Changing the course of Autism". Other parents as well have discovered that it is not genetic and can be treated successfully. I had a child that was developmentally delayed in speech and other ways. She was 3. Nobody could understand anything she said. I got an "impression" that I should take her off the flouride water and feed her pancakes made from freshly ground whole wheat (pancakes were the only thing I could get her to eat). Within 3 months of doing this she was speaking in clear sentences. Her amazed government funded pre-school teachers told me she does not qualify for the program anymore. Her doctor was amazed as well and I told him was I did and he didn't believe me. Autism is preventable and treatable!

This still needs to be looked at and studied, even if the first study was "flawed."

Wasn't there THREE TIMES the mercury in the original MMR vaccines - due to simply combining them? Later vaccines dropped the mercury, tacitly admitting a mistake.

Whether or not this is a cause of autism is still be an open question. Even if one study was flawed it does NOT prove the opposite - that MMR is not a cause of autiosm.

Please read the article (and other similar articles) again "follow up studies have been unable to replicate the results"

That means that they have done many many studies trying to prove a link and no one other than someone being paid by a lawyer to invent a study he could use to sue has been able to do it. So.. its a FACT: THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN AUTISIM AND VACCINES.

And removal of the thimerosol was not an admission, they just didn't want people to stop taking the vaccine for a dumb reason so they took it out. And besides, there is more mercury in a can of tuna than there ever was in the shot.

But the biggest reason all reasonable people know that the thimerosol didn't cause the problem is because after they stopped putting it in vaccines the autisim diagnosis rate has continued to increase. (if not explode)

Quit wasting time and money researching vaccine links and use that money to find the real cause and some helpful treatments.

They have tried to replicate "research" of Dr. Andrew Wakefield many many times. Study after study has shown there is NO LINK BETWEEN AUTISM AND VACCINES. The ONLY study to show a link (wakefield) has been 100% fraudulent.

The biggest clue to a lack of evidence, they took the preservative out of the vaccine and did autisim diagnosis rate decrease? NO! it ballooned.

Quit wasting time, money and energy on trying to find a vaccine link. There isn't one. Its time to start finding the real cause of autism and find some reliable cures.

I studied research methods at the U of U 30 years ago. People are too complex. I don't believe it's possible to prove vaccines cause autism using people. You would have to have people in the study that have the same genetics, eat the same food, drink the same water, breath the same air, have the same stress (chemical,emotional, and physical) etc. A vaccine in one child may contribute to getting autism, in another it may be diabetes, another allergies, another a thyroid, another lupus, another obesity (pituitary abnormality), another it may not show up until later in life as cancer or heart disease.

We have a son with autism. We do not believe for a minute that vacinations had anything to do with his condition. Or with any other child suffering from this pervasive developmental delay.

Nor do we believe that diet had any bearing on our son's condition. Autism appears to have complex genetic factors causing it, possibly involving multiple genes. This is why some children suffer from autism much more than do others. So I cannot say whether gluten is or is not a factor for SOME with autism. But it is simplistic to say that a change in diet is the cure for all, or even most, austistic children. It is really impossible to say whether those whose condition improves after a change in diet is BECAUSE of that diet change, or whether instead the improvement would have happened anyway.

and you will be better off with these kinds of complex problems. 12 was never an adequate sample size, and those who bothered to read the report knew that. MMRs are administered about the same time as significant developments in the brain relating to language and social awareness; the Dr. didn't separate those variables.
Similarly, diet changes have not been shown to have statistical significance - and the children are usually involved in many interventions simultaneously, making it impossible to determine cause and effect. If it works for you, great! Just don't judge me because I don't.
We can't experiment on our children, nor would we want to.
But at least "they" aren't blaming mother's neglect causes autism... a different doctor proposed that and scarred different generation.

I feel sorry for the autistic child of an adult that only looks at studies for answers. There are supplements that very few people know about that can balance organs affected by autism. You just have to know the "doctors" that know about these supplements. It most likely will not be an M.D.

"We can't experiment on our children, nor would we want to." Yet, we give children under the age of 2 ten times more immunizations now than 30 years ago. Isn't that an "experiment". It is on a broad scale and it has created a disaster for the sake of profits and convenience. And, the epidemic is not just in mental function diseases, but in a broad range of diseases.

And, for those that are attracted to the allure of genetics. Please explain what has happen to the genetic pool in the USA in the last 30 years that would engender such an epidemic. The thought is almost nonsensical.

What we do no is that about 40% of people adults and children have low beta brain wave function. Interestly multiple chemical, environmental, nutritional, and other stimuli can lower that wave pattern into a pattern that is non-functional. Also, interestingly the wave can be brought back to the functional level by multiple stimuli. Focus on finding the disfunctional brain wave patterns and bringing them to a functional level and you will have a broad impact on many diseases including autism.