Re: DR Boyd Haley's Reply to the LIE that was started


"Peter Bowditch" <myfirstname@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "LadyLollipop" <LadyLollipop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I invite everyone to examine the diatribe below to see where Dr Boyd
> Haley (whom Jan says gives good congress) uses the word "sorry" in
> relation to his disgusting use of the expression "mad child disease"
> to describe autism.

It is LIARS like you that have said that!!!!

P E R I O D

Just like L I A R Mark Thorson take my words about praying to saints and
says I hat Catholics.

EXACTLY the same thing!!!
>
>>To Whom It May Concern:
>>
>>RE: The statement from the www.neurodiversity.com website that "We abhor
>>Dr.
>>Haley's likening of autistic children to 'Mad Cows'"
>>
>>First, I have never compared or likened autistic children to Mad Cows, nor
>>have I ever said a derogatory thing about any autistic person or group.
>>Autistics and families of autistics have my unwavering support and
>>sympathy.
>>If someone has construed that I did so then they are misinformed. I would
>>immediately lean over backwards to apologize if I did so. However, what I
>>did point out was that using the term "Mad Cow" garnered national
>>attention
>>to the problem of finding a single afflicted cow. (It should be noted that
>>"mad cows" suffer from chronic wasting disease, do not eat or drink even
>>when the resource is in front of them. They are remarkably unaware of
>>their
>>surroundings, they do not make aggressive action towards anything. Not at
>>all like rabid or mad dogs.) The point I was making is that our US
>>government and our press media was highly focused on an event (the single
>>mad cow, no human injury caused) while ignoring the plight of thousands of
>>autistic children and their parents. Myself, and no one I know of has ever
>>likened autistics to mad cows and the statement on the neurodiversity
>>website is inaccurate. The issue discussed at the meeting where I
>>presented
>>was the high level of attention given to one "mad cow" while our country's
>>responsible government/medical agencies denies and ignores the autism
>>epidemic and uses descriptions of illnesses that do not lend to the
>>elimination of these diseases. Remember, it was a group of parents of
>>autistic children, not the government agencies, that brought the autism
>>epidemic to light. Hopefully, those who take issue with my presentation
>>regarding Mad Cow comments will obtain the tape of my talk and listen to
>>it
>>themselves. The entire talk was designed to obtain support of a large
>>physician group to recognize and work for the plight of families of
>>children
>>with autistic spectrum disorders.
>>
>>I know the "statistical trick" used by some epidemiologists of dividing
>>all
>>of the autistic spectrum disorders into many different "medical
>>definitions"
>>such as autism, ADHD, PDD, Aspergers, speech disorder, etc. In my opinion,
>>this trick of dividing the thimerosal (ethylmercury) caused illnesses into
>>several groups can be used to keep the total number of any single group
>>from
>>reaching a high level of statistical significance, allowing manipulation
>>of
>>the data to show little effect of thimerosal from vaccines. Note that most
>>of these illnesses have a higher boy to girl ratio like autism, and have
>>shown a dramatic increase that correlates with the advent of the mandated
>>vaccine program that increased infant exposures to thimerosal like autism.
>>That is, they appear to have the same causality with different resulting
>>clinical effects or levels of neurological damage. It will also be much
>>more
>>difficult for all children with autism spectrum disorders to gain
>>compensation if they are divided into different medical categories. I am
>>trying to eliminate use of this statistical trick by calling attention to
>>it, and placing all of those affected by thimerosal toxicity under one
>>general causation described by one name.
>>
>>The nature of the event that lead to the use of the term "Mercury
>>Afflicted
>>Disease of Children (M.A.D. Child Disease) was as follows. I was listening
>>to the speaker directly before me at the Doctor's for Disaster
>>Preparedness
>>Conference. There were few, if any, parents of autistic children present.
>>The prior speaker, a veterinarian, spoke about what efforts and expense
>>the
>>US government put into the finding of one "Mad Cow" in the state of
>>Washington. I found his talk extremely interesting. I noticed also that
>>the
>>rest of the audience, mostly physicians, where paying rapt attention -
>>over
>>one sick cow, but admittedly a cow that had the capacity to do a lot of
>>human and economical damage. I also remembered the number of times I heard
>>about the "Mad Cow" problem on national TV - it was on nightly and yet,
>>during the past few years any mention of the autisim epidemic seemed
>>exceedingly rare, and this epidemic represented severe damage to many
>>thousands of afflicted children and their families. What is wrong with our
>>press and medical community that causes them to ignore the autism spectrum
>>disorder epidemic?
>>
>>Therefore, when I was to speak I wanted to make a point. Calling a cow a
>>"Mad Cow" got immense national press attention and government funding due
>>to
>>the image produced by the name, while mercury damaged children and their
>>parents have to fight to get any press coverage. Stating that they had
>>found
>>a cow suffering from 'chronic wasting disease' would not have attracted
>>such
>>media attention. I was also aware that the responsible government agencies
>>and committees for national health problems, e.g. the FDA, IOM, CDC etc,
>>initially fought even the recognition that an epidemic was occurring. Now
>>they have to admit one exists but are trying to label it a "genetic
>>disease", due to neurodiversity perhaps. Sounds politically correct, but
>>is
>>misleading and likely prevents many afflicted autistic children from
>>receiving medical treatment that may help restore some quality to their
>>lives. As much as any parent would not like the Mercury Afflicted Disease
>>of
>>children to be used you can bet the CDC and FDA would like it even less.
>>
>>I did my best to stir up this audience of physicians with regards to the
>>autism issue, hoping that it would lead some of them to convince the
>>government and press media into recognition of the autism spectrum
>>disorder
>>problem and to support the bills to ban thimerosal in vaccines as was
>>being
>>presented to Congress. I pointed out the division of autism spectrum
>>disorders and stated that if we combined and labeled these neurological
>>diseases accurately based on causality then Mercury Afflicted Disease of
>>children (M.A.D. Child Disease) would likely garner more national
>>attention
>>of this epidemiological disaster. It is still my opinion that this is
>>better
>>than staying quite, governed by a perceived political correctness, and
>>allowing the CDC and others divide, what is in my opinion, a set of
>>thimerosal/vaccine induced illnesses into many subgroups in an attempt to
>>hide the true cause. When the protection of American children's health and
>>safety, and the pursuit of happiness by families are at stake, then I am
>>one
>>who will throw rocks if necessary to win and insure this protection.
>>
>>I also recognize that saying someone has an autistic or ADHD child does
>>not
>>evoke much sympathy or understanding from those unaware or unaffected by
>>the
>>autism epidemic. My approach to shock the physicians by pointing out the
>>affect of a NAME given to a disease worked as many of these physicians
>>spoke
>>to me about this issue and many, including Dr. Donald Miller, has taken on
>>a
>>role to bring this issue to public recognition. Dr. Miller wrote his
>>article
>>accurately and did so to be helpful to the autistic children and should
>>not
>>be held accountable for the MAD Child reference. I am the responsible
>>person
>>for this and if anyone was offended it was not my intention.
>>
>>I pointed out in my speech that since the responsible government agencies
>>did not recognize the autism spectrum disorder epidemic, nor the press,
>>then
>>many parents of autistic children were under the impression that it was a
>>"non-treatable genetic disease" and not a "treatable toxicity" problem
>>that
>>could also potentially be eliminated (like Acrodynia or Pink disease).
>>
>>I knew before my talk that many physicians were successfully treating
>>autistic children. For example, the last DAN (Defeat Autism Now)
>>Conference
>>had as its mantra "Autism, A Treatable Disease" and this was based on the
>>reports of many DAN physicians that treating autistic children for mercury
>>toxicity and the known biological effects of mercury toxicity resulted in
>>remarkable reversal of this disease in many children. These developed
>>treatments were done (1) without any support from our government,
>>including
>>the National Institutes of Health and (2) were done in defiance of the
>>Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendation that thimerosal exposure not be
>>considered a possible cause of autism and that all research, clinical or
>>biological, regarding the thimerosal-autism hypothesis be stopped. In my
>>opinion, this represents repugnant policy since neither the IOM nor the
>>CDC
>>could provide any other reasonable hypothesis for the autism epidemic. The
>>IOM totally discounted all of the research supporting the
>>thimerosal-autism
>>hypothesis and only considered epidemiological studies, mostly from
>>foreign
>>countries without our high autism rate, to come to their conclusions. This
>>is highly symptomatic of an orchestrated bureaucratic cover up that
>>results
>>in further damage to our children and our nation.
>>
>>Finally, I know that parents of autistic-spectrum disorder children would
>>not like for their children to be called MAD. However, since this, in my
>>opinion, correctly describes the causal route as Mercury Afflicted Disease
>>of children, (autism spectrum disorders). I also know that the bureaucrats
>>at the IOM, FDA and CDC also are even more disturbed by the MAD Child
>>disease moniker as it directly calls attention to the nature of the damage
>>their agencies inflicted on families of autistic children which, if they
>>had
>>been doing their jobs, would not have happened and would not have
>>continued
>>after being recognized. Instead, certain bureaucrats in these agencies
>>worked hard to cover up this "government agency induced disease".
>>
>>I have been fighting the issue of iatrogenic mercury toxicity delivered by
>>dentists and physicians for many years and will continue to do so. The USA
>>is worth it. Calling me a MAD Scientist would rank among the kindest
>>things
>>that I have been called by the supporters of dental amalgams and
>>thimerosal
>>in vaccines. So I understand how those who have not viewed my talk could
>>be
>>offended by the out of context and inaccurate representations of what I
>>have
>>been given credit for saying. I apologize to these individuals, but
>>encourage them to review my entire talk so they will understand there was
>>never any likening of autistic children to mad cows.
>>
>>Boyd E. Haley
>>Professor and Chair
>>Department of Chemistry
>>University of Kentucky
>>October 11, 2004
>>
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