Learn from the mistakes of others

many small children have known nothing but shopping centres and processed foods. it is an interesting experiment we have been doing on ourselves for the past few generations. one that has me wondering how connected this new culture of ours is to the 'rise' in certain socio-behavioural 'issues'.

i'm less concerned about microdoses of mercury compounds than the steady supply of complex chemicals in our diets. particularly when most single-event toxins require significant doses or toxicity to have lasting effects on the generally very plastic physiology of small children [we can thank adaptive evolution for that - if the opposite was true, we'd have been extinct long ago.]

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autism isn't a disease requiring a cure. it's a fact of life. just like homosexuality. part of the normal distribution of difference across the population.

and for the bleeding heart mundanes out there who think i need help, fuck off you patronising fucks. you need to get over your pathetic hang-ups! apparently i'm the one with socialising problems ... at least i'm not a self-paralysed psychosocial twat.

many small children have known nothing but shopping centres and processed foods. it is an interesting experiment we have been doing on ourselves for the past few generations. one that has me wondering how connected this new culture of ours is to the 'rise' in certain socio-behavioural 'issues'.

i'm less concerned about microdoses of mercury compounds than the steady supply of complex chemicals in our diets. particularly when most single-event toxins require significant doses or toxicity to have lasting effects on the generally very plastic physiology of small children [we can thank adaptive evolution for that - if the opposite was true, we'd have been extinct long ago.]

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autism isn't a disease requiring a cure. it's a fact of life. just like homosexuality. part of the normal distribution of difference across the population.

and for the bleeding heart mundanes out there who think i need help, fuck off you patronising fucks. you need to get over your pathetic hang-ups! apparently i'm the one with socialising problems ... at least i'm not a self-paralysed psychosocial twat.

via conuly via moggymania from slate:

• Arthur Allen[1], Sticking Up for Thimerosal:Read the studies—it's safe. Posted Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005, at 4:25 AM PT [http://slate.msn.com/id/2123647/]

see also:

• Sydney Spiesel[2] Your Health This Month: Mercury in vaccines and dental fillings, avian flu, episiotomies, and more. Posted Friday, July 1, 2005, at 12:39 PM PT [http://slate.msn.com/id/2121808/]


• including the sidebar on why thimerosal was put into vaccines in the first place: [http://slate.msn.com/id/2121808/sidebar/2121846/]

this one is also interesting:

• Jason Bradford[3], The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion, Energy Bulletin, 11 jan 05 [http://www.energybulletin.net/newswire.php?id=3948]

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Arthur Allen <artnews@earthlink.net> is writing a history of vaccination.

Sydney Spiesel <sydney.spiesel@yale.edu> is a pediatrician in Woodbridge, Conn., and a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Yale University's School of Medicine. He also appears in a question in the game Trivial Pursuit.

Jason Bradford Started a movement to help his town (Willits, CA) face issues of resource depletion and environmental change by creating a locally sustainable economy.

via conuly via moggymania from slate:

• Arthur Allen[1], Sticking Up for Thimerosal:Read the studies—it's safe. Posted Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005, at 4:25 AM PT [http://slate.msn.com/id/2123647/]

see also:

• Sydney Spiesel[2] Your Health This Month: Mercury in vaccines and dental fillings, avian flu, episiotomies, and more. Posted Friday, July 1, 2005, at 12:39 PM PT [http://slate.msn.com/id/2121808/]


• including the sidebar on why thimerosal was put into vaccines in the first place: [http://slate.msn.com/id/2121808/sidebar/2121846/]

this one is also interesting:

• Jason Bradford[3], The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion, Energy Bulletin, 11 jan 05 [http://www.energybulletin.net/newswire.php?id=3948]

---

Arthur Allen <artnews@earthlink.net> is writing a history of vaccination.

Sydney Spiesel <sydney.spiesel@yale.edu> is a pediatrician in Woodbridge, Conn., and a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Yale University's School of Medicine. He also appears in a question in the game Trivial Pursuit.

Jason Bradford Started a movement to help his town (Willits, CA) face issues of resource depletion and environmental change by creating a locally sustainable economy.