[FWD: April issue autism story]

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> --- April issue autism story

> From: robin@...

> Date: Sat, March 10, 2007 2:09 pm

> editorial@...

>

> It was interesting to see the story about autism in the April issue. I

> found it somewhat amusing that the information about anti-oxidants,

> chelation, and glutathione was presented as cutting edge news, when

> Bernard Rimland had been looking into these factors a decade or more

> ago. DAN doctors, following his lead, have been treating children using

> these methods for quite some time.

>

> You describe DAN practitioners as ‘leaping into the deep end of the pool

> before science has truly proved these treatments effective’. I think

> that if Dr. Rimland were alive, he might take issue with your notion

> that his work wasn’t real science. But perhaps he just wouldn’t bother

> with you—he’d be too busy trying to do more to help autistic children.

>

> At any rate, I think that the actions of the scientists who’ve leapt

> into the deep end of the pool in order to treat children using

> biomedical treatments and chelation were a great deal more rational

> than the actions of the government supported scientists who’ve

> increased our children’s exposure, in recent decades, to mercury

> through their mandated childhood vaccines, and through flu shots. These

> people have jumped head first into the deep end of the pool without

> first checking to see if there is any water in the pool. Oops.

>

> Except that if I am going to use that analogy it might be more accurate

> to speak of how they have tossed our nation’s babies and children head

> first into that pool.

>

> Robin Nemeth

>