TV As The Cause of Autism Study

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By Evelyn Pringle, Posted by Evelyn Pringle (about the submitter) Page 2 of 3 page(s)

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Between the rain and natural forest fires, Oregonians are barraged with the constantly recycling heavy metals in our environment. Most lakes and rivers are now marked with the ever-present signs stating, "Do not eat the Fish". This certainly deserves more research and makes far more sense than Tom and Jerry or the Roadrunner as possible environmental causes of Autism in infants and toddlers.

The worst offense of all in this study is once again the total and utter disregard for the voice of the parents and families directly affected by this speeding train called Autism. Parents that watched their children plummet into their own world immediately following multiple vaccines are painted as fringe whackos looking for an excuse for their child's disability. Their concerns and first-hand stories are brushed aside as anectdotal, uninformed, and uneducated. Even families whose children reacted within minutes of vaccination and were autistic from that point forward are disregarded and swept under the proverbial rug of pharmaceutical company and federal agency denials.

The IOM disregarded parents, scientists, doctors, and scientific studies showing a link to the mercury in vaccines and autism and instead relied 100% on easily flawed epidemiological studies that had been admittedly altered through five generations to downplay the link with neurodevelopmental disorders. The IOM would say no further research into this seems warranted. But this study, this TV causes Autism study, you would request demands further research and study.

While the Combating Autism Act with its millions of research dollars lies locked in a congressional ego pissing match, you seriously suggest that someone should waste more time, money, and effort on what it took many of us days to realize was not some cruel and evil joke on the part of a few bored economic researchers.

This devastating epidemic has gone beyond the level of such thoughtless, immature games of throwing out simplified and idiotic theories that pop into someone's brain. No defense you can throw out can justify this level of pseudo-scientific crap. No apologies can make up for the glib nature of this attempt at your 15 minutes of fame. We can only hope you have all enjoyed yourselves at the expense of devastated families and children that will needlessly suffer for a lifetime from a very serious ailment. The media that gave this any serious time or space while they easily dismiss the fact that the second most toxic element on earth is being injected into infants has their own share of culpability in this.

If even one federally funded penny goes to this ridiculous theory, you will hear the loudest uproar from 300,000 angry families being accompanied by their estimated 5 million friends and family members. We will not be silenced, and we will not be patronized by anything as obnoxiously condescending and brainless as this study.

This is a serious disease, a serious issue, and it deserves some serious study and attention. It is causing a devastating loss to our nation of an entire generation of children, and leading to the death of 100s of these children through drownings, traffic accidents, as well as being murdered by family members. This is not a non-fatal disease. The numbers are 1000x worse than the polio epidemic of the 1950s but receives 1/100th of the attention, resources, research, and even media and federal government attention. You have made your contribution to the trivialization of the misery and struggles of these families and their children, and there is just no other way to put this than; please just shut up and go away.

As the 1 in 166 start filling the Social Security rolls, receiving Medicaire and Medicaid the crisis will reach a whole new level, and maybe then, just maybe someone will actually do some real and credible research into the real causes of the Autism epidemic. Until then, we parents can only pray and hope that you are the last to so carelessly throw out such a thoughtless mockery of real science.

I did a simple search on the ask Jeeves website. I typed in "inventions" in the 1980s and below is what appeared from that search (just wondering if you had ruled out Cabbage Patch Dolls or disposable contact lenses before you jumped on the TV bandwagon?)

1980 The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.

1981 The first IBM-PC invented.

1982 Human growth hormone genetically engineered.

1983 First Cabbage Patch Kids sold.

1984 The CD-ROM invented.

1984 The Apple Macintosh invented.

1986 A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller.

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