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9 years ago @ AnneDachel.com - *Dear Dr. Hertz-Piccio... · 0 replies · +1 points

Also, if autism were genetic, ALL identical twins of autistic children would also have autism, not just 60%. The fact that it's only 60% is proof that autism is not genetic.

9 years ago @ AnneDachel.com - *Dear Dr. Hertz-Piccio... · 0 replies · +1 points

Enginer, you have raised many interesting points, but you do have one error. There is no evidence that autism is a genetic or inherited affliction. What there is evidence for is that the predisposition to vaccine reaction MAY be a genetic one.

But it cannot be ruled out yet that such a predisposition may also be caused by an environmental assault on the mother, before or during pregnancy.

And now, with pregnant women being given not one but several vaccines while pregnant, we will never now.

10 years ago @ AnneDachel.com - Medical Daily: Jenny M... · 0 replies · +1 points

Looks like Orac's minions were sent to launch personal attacks on Anne in the comment section. So far, we have lilady and Dorit Reiss, spreading their usual lies. They must be getting nervous; their comments have gone from condescending and dismissive to downright venomous.

Kudos to Anne, for staying calm, focused, and refusing to be baited by them.

10 years ago @ AnneDachel.com - More from Emily Willin... · 0 replies · +3 points

For every hypothesis they throw at autism, let's ask: could this be linked with vaccine reaction? So far, everything they suggest could indeed be linked with either vaccine reaction or mercury toxicity.

Could labor induction predisposed an infant to vaccine reaction? Do any of the meds or solutions hooked up to Mama's IV while she's being induced contain thimerosal or aluminum?

Keep asking the questions, ask them loudly and often, and somewhere, someone will investigate it....

10 years ago @ AnneDachel.com - Fox News: Simon Baron... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hmmm, let's see now....

Anorexia: self-starvation, malnutrition, vitamin deficiencies, both of which affect brain function.

Autism: severe intestinal problems resulting in malnutrition, vitamin deficiencies, both of which affect brain function.

I'd be wondering if vaccines play a causal role in anorexia.

10 years ago @ AnneDachel.com - NY Times and NY Post o... · 0 replies · +1 points

But 2% of children already have autism. We're already there....

10 years ago @ AnneDachel.com - USA Today: 'An excitin... · 0 replies · +1 points

I usually agree with you, but in this case, they're actually opening the door to integrative treatment. They're showing that showing how autism has quantifiable neurological/physical symptoms; they're actually supporting our position that autism is not a behavioral disorder but a medical one! This does actually offer some help for children; this would be a huge step beyond the idea that ABA is the only option.

And they're also opening the door--WIDE-- to new studies showing these movement disorders as vaccine damage.

We shouldn't attack the few who actually ARE doing something about autism, just because they're not directly addressing vaccines. I don't know if they're going throughout the back door by coincidence or on purpose, but the point is, they're actually opening the door for us. So let's not waste time and shoot ourselves in the foot by slinging mud at them.

Let's go through that door and shine the brightest light possible on the new information BEFORE the vaccine zealots try to twist it.

10 years ago @ AnneDachel.com - PARADE Magazine: Jenn... · 0 replies · +1 points

They have a poll at the bottom of the article, asking you to vote on whether or not you think Jenny would make a good host.

There is also room for comments, with the usual idiots spouting that Jenny's claim that her son is cured from autism is absurd. (But if the pharmaceutical companies told them they could cure it with a pill, they'd believe it for sure...)

10 years ago @ AnneDachel.com - US News and World Repo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Oh, Anne, the Mayo Clinic study you refer to, that supposedly found that autistic kids didn't have any more bowel disease than non-autistic kids?

If you look at the actual study, what they did was go back and look at medical records of 124 autistic kids from 1976-1997, and match them to controls. Here is the link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19651585

I couldn't find out what the birth years were for the autistic kids, let alone the controls. But keep in mind, autism was still 1 in10,000 in 1988 (halfway through the years involved in the study), and NOBODY had heard of celiac, gluten, and the diagnosis "IBS" had not yet been invented.
NOBODY KNEW THAT AUTISTIC CHILDREN WERE HAVING INTENSE INTESTINAL PROBLEMS.

When you think about it, it's actually miraculous that any of those kids had any diagnosis at all of intestinal issues, let alone as often as their neurotypical peers.

That would be like going back to 1945 and doing a study on how many people were nearsighted based on how many wore contact lenses. Contact lenses weren't on the market yet.

We need to start calling the "experts" on their bullshit. Loudly.

10 years ago @ AnneDachel.com - US News and World Repo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Let me get this straight.

They have actually found that there is increased immune reactivity to gluten in children with autism, and it's associated with gastrointestinal symptoms, which we all know can be especially severe in autistic children.

But the researchers are still trying to insist that there is no benefit to putting a child with autism on a gluten-free diet, because increased immune reactivity isn't actually a sign of disease??

That's like insisting that there's no benefit to putting a child with signs of peanut allergy on a peanut-free diet, because a peanut allergy is not actually a sign of disease.

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