Re: Investigating the "autism epidemic."
- From: Mark Probert <markprobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:20:32 -0500
montygram wrote:
Here's a journalist who has encountered some of the same problems I have. He asks a simple question about doing an easy and inexpensive study to determine whether "orthodox" notions, which have never been established in a way that meets the standards of the scientific method,
contain some major problems. If one starts asking scientific questions, the "experts" in charge realize, light will be cast on how tenous their claims are. However, one thing they cannot do is change basic information, mainly demographic data, much of which is available on the internet now (for instance through the WHO site), as well as the
biochemical studies (the abstracts of which are mostly available, at www.pubmed.com). And that is why I am attempting to explain how one can use this evidence to make decisions that should add decades onto your life (lived in great health!). Does anyone have detailed information on "typical" Amish diets? It appears that they do not use any of the refined and highly polyunsaturated oils that are in almost everything in the "typical" American diet these days (even in "health food stores" you find that canola, sunflower, safflower, etc., oils are
in many of the prepared foods they sell. Supposedly, there is very little "heart disease" and cancer in these populations as well. They don't need to take fish oil pills or eat salmon. "Though their diet consists of meat, potatoes, gravy, cakes, and eggs, the Amish have extremely low rates of heart disease and cancer." http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1074778113932_24?...
The vaccinations may set off a chain of reactions, but I doubt that this would be a problem if the childrens's bodies were not made into a bubbling cauldron of biochemical activity by eating large amounts of these oils, along with foods high in iron and other co-factors that are
common in the "typical" American diet.
The Age of Autism: The Amish Elephant By DAN OLMSTED
Here is the other side of the story....
From http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/6/schulman.asp
Olmsted, a former assistant national editor at USA Today, found his way into thimerosal through another medical side-effect story. It involved an antimalarial drug called Lariam, which was prescribed to Peace Corps volunteers, travelers to third-world countries, and more recently to U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. As Olmsted and his UPI colleague Mark Benjamin (now a national correspondent at Salon.com) detailed in an investigation that spanned more than two years, starting in 2002, Lariam, which had been approved by the FDA and recommended by the CDC, also appeared strongly linked to psychosis, including homicidal and suicidal behavior. Partly because of their reporting, the effects of Lariam are now under study by the Pentagon. “If it hadn’t been for Lariam, I don’t think I would have ever thought twice about autism,” Olmsted told me. “With Lariam, CDC officials said many times that there’s absolutely no problem with side effects from this drug, it’s extraordinarily safe. That’s just not true.”
Instead of wading directly into the thimerosal controversy, Olmsted approached it, as he puts it, “sideways.” By this he means that after reading what had been written on autism and noticing a relative dearth of material about its origins, he set out to write a natural history of the disorder.
Eventually, Olmsted began thinking of ways to test the thimerosal theory. He wondered whether researchers had ever examined the prevalence of autism in an unvaccinated population, such as the Amish. That, it would seem, would be the most likely way to determine whether the vaccine link held water. If the number of autism cases among the unvaccinated mirrored the national average, then it would seem that thimerosal played no role. Olmsted found that though researchers had discussed such a study, none had ever been done. “That’s an expensive study,” he said, “but for a journalist all you have to do is get on the phone and start asking.” After spending weeks searching for cases among the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he managed to find three children with autism, two of whom had been vaccinated, a rarity in that community. “The cases among the Amish that I’ve identified over the past several weeks appear to have at least one link — a link made of mercury,” Olmsted wrote in a column on May 20, referring to the vaccinated children. “That’s not something I expected to encounter.” Looking at other large Amish populations in the Midwest, such as those in Middlefield, Ohio, and Goshen, Indiana, Olmsted found similarly low autism rates. He admits that his findings are not scientific. “I could be getting a completely wrong impression from what I’m finding, but it’s interesting,” Olmsted told me. Interesting enough to get the attention of members of Congress, including Representative Dave Weldon of Florida and Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut; officials at the Department of Health and Human Services; and researchers, including Mady Hornig, the Columbia epidemiologist, who now hopes to devise a study looking at the Amish.
Privately, two reporters told me that, while intriguing, Olmsted’s reporting on the Amish is misguided, since it may simply reflect genetic differences among an isolated gene pool (Hornig, however, said that a study on the Amish may still be valuable should the prevalence of autism in that community indeed be low, allowing researchers to study the genetics of people who are not susceptible to the disorder). Both reporters believed that Olmsted has made up his mind on the question and is reporting the facts that support his conclusions.
“I’ve just tried to find a way to get into this that adds something to the debate and is original,” Olmsted said.
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Olmsted went out to look for proof of his theory and found it while rejecting anything that disagreed with it. IOW, he is full of feces.
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