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I have no idea who the McCarthys are. But, more power to them! I say we need more and more parents like these. Most parents are slackers that blame everything from schools to [lack of] welfare for their troubles and never get off their butts to work.
I know many an autism child and parent. Spoke with a girl friend of one a couple days ago. She was major screw up and wanted her newly found boyfriend to dump his autism kid in a group home. She is a damn slacker, they are a dime a dozen.
I'm glad to hear about the McCarthys. Hope they keep up the hard work.
More perpetuation of the ridiculous vaccine scare by celebr-authorities.
*Carrey and McCarthy claim in their op/ed piece on CNN that 'England and Ireland reported that autism is affecting one in 58 individuals.'*
No, it's not. That was an astonishing piece of misreporting by a sports journalist who thought he'd try to interpret a medical paper and failed dismally. The study's author, Professor Baron Cohen asked for a correction to me made.
McCarthy has no idea what she's talking about. There is no credible evidence for the claims she makes about autism, it's cause, and the treatments she advises. As far as I can tell, she's using her son's condition to rescue her career from straight-to-video hell.
She probably means well enough, but the statements she makes can have a very adverse effect. She is definitely not an expert and needs to tone down her accusations and try to work with the medical field instead of throwing out so much criticism.
there are exceptions to everything. Maybe a vaccine might cause a problem for some people just like a lot of things, but that doesn't mean everyone is susceptible - just like some people are allergic to a bee sting, peanuts, anesthesia, etc. All people can't be lumped together and judged alike.
Educate yourself people. No, not every kid will become autistic from vaccines, but even if 1 out of 150 do, do you not think that is too many? Do you want to volunteer to have the perfectly healthy kid to turn into a kid staring at walls? Is that cool with you?
Themerisal contains mercury. Do you know what mercury - even tiny amounts - can do to a child's nervous system and brain?
Look into it. Stop being so gullible.
is true God Bless them all.
do we also want to take the chance of the outcome with our children with NO vaccines?? And as far as that goes - testing doesn't always come up with the same diagnosis!
This vaccine thing needs to end.
Japan is one of the few places where they withdrew MMR and some other vaccines from several cities, for different reasons that Autism.
Guess what happened to autism rates...they kept rising. The UK doctor who published the research regards regressive autism and vaccine has been widely discredited...was even advising solicitors of parents looking to take legal action and requring evidence of a link.
I personally think, from what I have read, that enviromental conditions and much wider diagnosing is the reason for the increase. Autism covers a wide spectrum of disorders and behaviours so unlikely to have a single cause.
I am glad this woman has seen her child recover but the 'treatment' sounds like the usual Holywood prattle of zany diets and suppliments.
how many mothers with autistic children had ultrasounds, had invitro, and shots that accompany this????
It is the mercury traces within the vaccines, as well as the rising mercury in the Japanese diet (polluted oceans) heavy in seafood that has researchers in the US still concerned too.
Written by Michael Wagnitz
Thursday, 03 April 2008
It was reported repeatedly in 2006 that the link between mercury-containing vaccines and autism has been disproven. Yet if one looks at the most recent research coming from some of our major universities, one may draw the opposite conclusion.
What we have learned in the last couple of years is that the underlying medical condition of autism is neuroinflammatory disease. In a study conducted at John Hopkins University, brain tissue from deceased autistic patients was examined. The tissue showed an active neuroinflammatory process and marked activation of microglia cells. Neuroinflammatory disease is synonymous with an activation of microglia cells.
A study done at the University of Washington showed that baby primates exposed to injected thimerosal (50 percent mercury), at a rate equal to the 1990s childhood vaccine schedule, retained twice as much inorganic mercury in their brains as primates exposed to equal amounts of ingested methylmercury. We know from autometallographic determination that inorganic mercury present in the brain, following the dealkylation of organic mercury, is the toxic agent responsible for changes in the microglial population and leads to neuroinflammation.
Recently it was shown that in more than 250 examined patients, atypical urinary porphyrins were almost three times higher in autistic patients than controls. Porphyrins are precursors to heme, the oxygen-carrying component of blood. Mercury inhibits the conversion of porphyrins to heme. When the patients were treated to remove mercury, urinary porphyrins returned to normal levels.
In a study done at the University of Arkansas, autistic children were found to have significantly lower levels of the antioxidant glutathione. Glutathione is the major antioxidant needed for the elimination of mercury at the cellular level. This may explain why some children are more severely affected by thimerosal in vaccines than others.
While all the government-conducted epidemiological (statistical) studies show no link between thimerosal and autism, the clinical studies examining brain tissue, blood, urine and human cells show a completely different picture.
Michael Wagnitz is a Madison resident with more than 20 years of experience as a chemist working with trace metal analysis.
A large survey in Quebec, where they stopped using all mercury (thimerosal) in vaccines years ago, showed rates continued to rise in line with places where the vaccines with mercury are still used.
So not the mercury and seemingly not multi-vaccination, at least according to every major study done. Currently there is no scientific evidence to suggest a link between MMR or thimerosal and autism. We are talking about millions of people being looked at now after surveys in dozens of countries, including where it has been withdrawn...not just Japan.
Maybe if people looked beyond the red herring of vaccinations they might actually find the cause of the increase, other than wider and better diagonsis. The fact autism often becomes obvious around the time major vaccinations appears to be co-incidental.
Also most scientists think the vast majority of autism cases are genetic and determined before birth.
Most vaccines given today are unnecessary. Sanitation, hygiene, diet, and education has improved over the years. Some children should be vaccinated, but the mass vaccines given under the current recommended vaccine schedule carry more risk and cause more harm than the problems they prevent. Vaccines can be given safely, but the current recommended schedule is not safe. In fact, they make little effort to prove vaccines safe, but only demand that they be proven unsafe before discontinuing their use.
Parents have a huge fight on their hands. They fight against system of greed, status, reputation...
It's about time people started putting the children first.
We need more people like Jenny and Jim to advocate on behalf of children. They're counting on us.
Okay, first of all.....to all of you people out there slamming Ms. McCarthy---you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to the vaccines because you have never sat there and actually watched your child develope normally and then all of the sudden they get their shots at the doctor and then get sick from it that same day....then a few months down the road they aren't verbal at all anymore......then a few more months and they are now having extreme tantrums as if they were being hurt and you have no idea why. I have been through this with my son who is now 6 years old and he is autistic (PDD). I also know alot of parents from the Autism Society, chapters in Chicago and in Texas, who like me have been through the same things and we all believe as Jenny does that the vaccines are the cause or at least a part of the cause. The environment has a lot to do with this too. I say more power to Jenny and Jim for getting out there and being heard!!!! We have so many charities now a days to help every country accept that we can't manage to help the children in our own???????? What's wrong with this picture????? And what happened to the government (FDA) looking out for our best interest???? Did they think that mercury was healthy, if so maybe the politicians who didn't stand up for us or the people on the FDA who passed this use of mercury as safe should drink a big glass of it with their morning orange juice. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh to some people but when you watch your child go through an illness like this and know that it could have been prevented but wasn't how would you feel???? My husband and I have put ourselves through bankruptcy and almost got divorced literally but my son can walk and talk and he goes to a normal classroom now in first grade----no thanks to the government. We went through early intervention and they don't offer enought to actually help a child get better so we paid out of pocket somewhere around 550,000 for the last 6 years of therapy and doctors--which the insurance companies do not have to cover. Basically as a parent of a child with Autism you have to choose between money and materials or your child---I may never own a house again but my child at least has a fighting chance at a normal life now.
Her comments are very unfortunate. Very unfortunate. Personally, I'd rather listen to a debate among respected medical doctors who have devoted their careers to autism rather than a celebrity who 'on-the-camera' exposure benefits from talking to a celebrity host.
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