From the Schafer Report

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> CLOSING COMMENTARY FROM THE EDITOR:

> 2004 and Autism

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>       2004 will be seen, eventually, as a pivotal year for the

> beginning of

> the end of the autism epidemic.  This is not just wishful thinking. 

> Two

> important events happened this year that are setting events into

> motion.

> They are the autism-related studies by Mady Horning and Jill

> that give

> undeniable plausibility to the vaccine-autism hypothesis.  This added

> with

> dozens of other studies suggesting causality as well as the

> observations by

> thousands of parent who have seen their children disappear into autism

> shortly after inoculation presents a compelling argument. 

>       There is enough " smoking gun " evidence before us now that

> demands that

> our public heath agencies to finally start taking this damned scourge

> seriously.

>       The gun smoke is getting about as dense as it can get.  Failure

> to

> take appropriate action is nothing less than calculated public health

> negligence that borders criminality. Our children need to be examined.

>       More money must be focused on clinical research.  This does not

> have

> to be at the expense of genetic research, but genetic research can no

> long

> be used to dodge proper and thorough clinical investigation, to

> distract us

> away from possible iatrogenic sources like vaccines.

>       Almost finally, there are some people and organizations that

> need to

> be briefly pointed out for their outstanding and even heroic efforts

> on our

> children's' behalf this year. 

>       The National Autism Association is the only national political

> autism

> organization that has been willing to take the heat in pursuing the

> mercury-autism connection. They have been instrumental in the effort

> to get

> states to legislate the removal of mercury from vaccines.  This

> organization

> deserves our support. 

>       SafeMinds is an outfit that has provided intellectual and

> scientific

> muscle in a disciplined investigation of the mercury connection to

> autism

> and other nasty business.  Only a handful of dedicated parents have

> managed

> to effectively and heroically raise the issues of Thimerosal toxicity

> nationally and to support related research.

>       It took five hundred years for the establishment at the time to

> admit

> their mistake in persecuting Galileo for his discoveries.  It will be

> a far

> shorter time than that for Dr. Wakefield to be vindicated, to

> be

> sure. More than that he is be honored for the sacrifices he has and is

> making to tell a most unpopular truth: the government and pharma

> emperors

> are wearing no clothes; recklessly opposing his efforts and

> suggestions of

> caution with the MMR vaccines. 

>       The DAN! Conferences has been the single-most effective source

> of

> scientific exchange, parent and professional training on autism

> anywhere.

> These conferences are key to supplying the information needed for

> providing

> undeniable effective treatment and healing to our children.  Maureen

> Mc needs to be singled out as the mastermind in producing these

> crucial resources year after year.  The autism community is blessed

> to have

> this petite powerhouse amongst us, serving us. Let the beatification

> begin!

>       And this leads to the organization that parents the DAN!

> Conferences,

> the Autism Research Institute and Dr. Bernard Rimland.  Above and

> beyond the

> conferences, the ARI has also been the stimulus for much of the

> research

> leading to the treatments for autism.  The crowning glory of Dr.

> Rimland and

> his ARI is being able to prove that autism is treatable in the face of

> medical establishment scorn and animus.  This man doesn't just tilt at

> windmills, he hacks them down and with untiring courage year after

> year. 

>        No less stellar heroes are the parents of children with autism

> who

> day after day commit themselves to the restoration of their children.

> Kudos

> and warm tidings to you who attend the conferences, run the programs,

> follow

> the diets who read this newsletter and do whatever it takes to set

> things

> right. It is because of you our children and our purpose will

> prevail. 

>      -Signing off with a California spanglish greeting of Merry

> Christmas y Prospero Año,

>

>       Lenny Schafer

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> To which I add.....AMEN!

> Ann a gram

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