You should be ashamed of yourself. Sure, the kid’s autistic, so blame the parents. Regardless of how you feel about Jenny McCarthy, that’s a low tactic to take. I guess you have no manners because your mom was a whore. (See how that works?)

For the record, my Wife has never come close to taking any kind of recreational drug, and during her pregnancy stayed off of anything that could even remotely be harmful to the fetus, and my Daughter was born with Autism. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

And for the record, my daughter was found to have lead poisoning, which we have had a great deal of success in treating. The “anti-vaxers” didn’t have our answer, but they sure put us on the right track for finding someone who would do something other than “Your kid’s Autistic, deal with it.”

While I don’t buy the whole “Indigo Child” and anti-vaxing hysteria, I can tell you this much: Toxicity of the environment has an incredible amount to do with MY daughter’s case of “Autism”. Chelating her HAS lowered the lethal amounts of lead that were in her system.

Hopefully some parents will make it this far… Parents: Don’t get hung up on the Thimerasol in the Vaccines, but DO have your children tested for food allergies and heavy metal toxicity. Put your skeptics hat on, but DO talk to one of those private doctors who can help. A good doctor will test and treat KNOWN problems. If you’re chelating Heavy Metals, then you should have a blood workup that shows you how much of each metal is in their system, and subsequent tests should show that amount decreasing.

I’ve seen alot of my fellow parents get taken in with New Age BS, immersion tanks, etc… Don’t go there. However, there are providers who will do alot more than your standard PCP, and getting in touch with the DAN network is a good first start.

The FDA, and not the CDC, regulates Drugs in the US. As such, anyone claiming that the CDC is doing regulating has his facts pretty much backwards. The FDA *does* work wih the CDC to ensure that the health of the people in the US is not adversely affected by epidemics, but the FDA is the group who tell you if the Science behind a drug is good. This is one of the principle reasons they re-instituted the Office of Chief Scientist a few years back. It is also the reason that now they are working with Drug Comapnies to implement R.E.M.S. Programs (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) for certain products.

As a disclaimer, I work in the Pharma Industry in Regulatory Affairs. I do not, however represent any company and my opinions and statements reflect my own views.

If lobbying efforts by the pharmaceutical industry should make us distrust them, then I don’t think we should trust anyone.

Least of all the dietary supplement industry (“Pseudo Pharma”). Thanks to their lobbying(PDF, sorry), we have the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, which inexoribly led to the Kinoki foot pad and the infamous coral pills (aka, quackery).

Herbal treatments? Meh! Homeopathic sprays (for you dog, even)? Feh! All-natural male enhancement pills? Meh-feh! Clark Stanley would beat Kevin Trudeau at the quackery game under this act.

Guess who would be the ones to introduce “green vaccines”? You got it, Pseudo Pharma. (“Introducing the world first sprayable homeopathic spray. No more expensive doctor trips. No more needles. With Doctor Stanley’s patented No-Virus spray, you can stop the cold in its tracks. The flu is kung-fu’d. And smallpox is small potatoes. Act now, and we’ll even throw in Doctor Stanley’ homeopathic STD spray. Have the love life you’ve always wanted, the ‘all-natural’ way.“)

Luckily, starting June 2010, the folks at Pseudo Pharma are gonna get some overdue (yet not enough) regulation.

IMHO, I think they should be held to the same standard as the regular drug companies. If you’re gonna make a claim that your product treat a disease or illness then you made a drug and should be treated that way.

Sources:
“THE DIETARY SUPPLEMENT HEALTH AND EDUCATION ACT OF 1994″ by Darren McBride
http://www.csufresno.edu/physics/rhall/jref/tam4p/06_DM_tam4.pdf

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/DSHEA.html

True, but not exactly a rigorous scientific study. And I seem to remember them claiming that they are never going to do drinking myths again. Granted, they’ve said that a couple times…

Or at least a Mythbuster’s episode! That would be more fun to watch.

I smell a research grant…

What are the proportions in your hangover concoction?

Yes, vaccines occasionally cause serious damage – which is why there’s a compensation mechanism in place. The diseases they protect against frequently caused terrible damage and death, so far in excess of the vaccine damage for anyone to seriously believe there’s a controversy, they have to be an idiot.

Sigh. Hard topic to be silly about, given that it’s mostly kids who die, thanks to their parents’ willful ignorance.

Aspirin: anti-inflammatory,analgesic, and blood thinner.

Hydergine: quenches free radical production in neuronal sheath and subsequent inflammation.

H2O: to eliminate dehydration.

Vit C: again for its free radical inhibition.

B-complex: consumed by the liver during detoxification of the C2H5OH(ethyl alcohol).

I had an alcoholic friend who had bummer hangovers until I suggested he try this concoction. After his bender he did try it and reported that for the first time in years he was free of such symptoms,,,anecdotal, to be sure, but it worked for me as well. I have tried the H2O regimen and it helps to a limited extent but this concoction totally eliminated ANY hangover symptoms,,,

I suppose it MIGHT have been a placebo effect but I had no statistically significant numbers of volunteers to try it on.

Wimps!!!

Gary 7

I think it’s probably the stupidest use of this particular buzzword.

Basically he says that people don’t trust the sience behind vaccinations (at least in part) because there are practically no regulations for CDC members about taking moning from Drug companies. He quotes from an interview with Robert F. Kennendy Jr. on MSNBC that the science behind vaccines is “classic tobacco science”.

What, and this somehow invalidates all of the studies that have been conducted in, say, Europe that demonstrate no link between vaccines and autism? Your point only means something if the USA operates in a vacuum. Besides, aren’t there organisations independent of the CDC that do science in the US?

(PS: A mix of Hydergine, asperin, B complex, Vit C and H2O taken before heavy ingestion of alcohol and just before retiring, eliminates the hang over from a night of partying.)

So does Irn Bru.