It is completely irresponsible to be so flippant about having the measles, mumps and rubella. You are lucky that you are fine, but so many are not. Things don’t always get better and life doesn’t always go on. My cousin died from the measles. It caused him to go into a vegetative state at the age of 6 and he remained that way for the next 12 years until he finally died. It destroyed my aunt and uncle to have to watch their child grow into a man while lying motionless in a hospital bed.

I understand why you are angry and why you are looking for the cause of and a cure for the condition that ails your child. My son doesn’t have autism, but has other challenges and I am equally as passionate in my quest to help him get better. But emotion sometimes makes us lose sight of the facts. We see what we want to see and ignore facts that don’t fit into what we so desperately want to believe.

And in your quest to demonize vaccines and doctors for being “whores” to “Big Pharma” you are overlooking the fact that companies are also getting rich off of chelation therapies while countless families of autistic children are going broke from this snake oil.

Godspeed.

Yes, I’ve read the studies you mention. They are at best, pseudo-science and more accurately, science fiction.

What I think you should research is the history of the people and companies you are backing. they switch from condition to condition touting chellation as the answer until they are proven to be quacks, then wait a few years and announce they have found a breakthrough cure for the next hot-topic disease or condition. It’s crap, it’s been crap and it will remain crap; Nothing more than expensive promises to parents, loved ones and the afflicted.

You can promote these people all you want. I will stand on my side of the fence and oppose their methods. I do not agree with them. My son is improving using standard methods and has been immunized against everything he should have been. He was BORN autistic.

Best wishes for your child. I hope the improvements continue.

I had the measles, mumps and rubella growing up. Guess what. I’m fine. I got to spend a grand total of 6 days in my room watching TV and eating ice cream. Then I got better and life goes on.

The “volumes of research” you refer to have never, ever once studied the cumulative effects that so many vaccines have on infant children. Not one study. Ever. If that’s the safety record you are referring to, no wonder so many parents don’t trust their doctors and listen to parents of *recovered* children as to how to help their children.

Have you ever actually read the studies yourself? Or do you just repeat Newsweek and CNN? I suggest you go to http://www.14studies.org and actually read for yourself what the “volumes of research” have to say, WHO paid for them, and what TIES to Big Pharma all of them have. Every single one has enormous conflicts of interest. The fact so many people gloss over this is very irritating.

My son never spoke a word, until we chelated, and began speaking in 2-3 words sentances 6 weeks after we began. And this is happening with thousands of children all over the country. Jenny McCarthy is not on her own, so go ahead and make fun of her being blond, being a Playboy model, or dating a A-list celebrity. SHE is backed up by “volumes of research” and big time doctors with lots of fancy diplomas hanging on their walls, just like your guys in white coats. Difference is, Big Pharma’s not paying her to be their whore.