Chelation Study Cancelled

So who canned the NIMH chelation study as "too dangerous?" Children are given huge doses of chemotherapy and radiation in a desperate effort to save them from cancer - fully knowing the side effects themselves can be deadly.  It's a fair risk most parents are willing to take to help a sick child.

If your child is full of lead, the doctor will chelate him as a standard protocol. (Children.WebMD.) If removing the source of lead and balancing nutrition do not reduce lead levels, or if the blood lead level is very high, chelation therapy may be used. Chelation therapy is a process that rapidly reduces the amount of lead stored in the body. Drugs called chelating agents cause metals like lead to bind to them, and then they are eliminated from the body through urine. Because chelating agents increase the absorption of lead and other metals, it is essential that sources of lead exposure be removed before a person is treated.

But if your child is full of mercury, too bad.  The mainstream docs won't chelate him. After all, he might just get better and then all the people who've railed against autism treatments and screamed at us that our kids are "uncurable!" would be wrong. 

Read the blip HERE.

Comments

[rileysmom]

John
I'm 5'1" and I guarantee you I can take Peter Hotez,lol!!! Thanks for the laugh!

[John]

Hey Probe,
The reason Peter Hotez doesn't grab a parent and shake them is strictly size.. I've met him, attended a press conference where he lied, stared at him and watched him slither out of the building away from the parents..

By the way he's about 5'6"

Very much like Paul Offit, cornering pettite mothers and screaming at them , when no one is looking. Then running off when a father rounds the corner.

You should know the people you defend better.

[TheProbe]

Managing Editor's Note: I sent an email to this commenter apologizing for using his first name when I commented back to him. The Probe is welcome to complain for my inadvertent error. It wasn't my intention to out him, as I addressed him in what I thought was a civil manner, by using his name. No harm intended. I'm damned if I publish these comments. And damned if I don't.

Kim, you are an unethical shit. I post under TheProbe to protect my self and my family from the evil doers like (deleted to avoid WWIII.)

You have absolutely no right to "out" me. You call yourself a journalist, but do not act like one.

Age-Of-Ignorance is a far more appropriate name.

As for what Dr. Hotez said, yes, the research money has gone to prove vaccines cause autism, when there is no scietific evidence to even suggest that.

You lack facts and logic, just like you lack ethics.

Why am I not surprised.

Note that if you censor this post, as I expect you will, I will, as usual, post it on several blogs of people who understand your evil.

[kat23]

"I ALMOST feel like there's some kind of plot to just make the parents of Autism children feel like NO ONE IN GOVERNMENT OR THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT really cares whether our kids get better or not."

above posted by Matt

Matt,
from where I sit, they don't:(

[Stagmom]

Probe, Cure Autism Now and NAAR had millions and years to move us along. How'd that work out? Autism Speaks has what, $60,000,000 or some such figure, devoted primarily to research, I believe. And you're quoting this doctor as saying that raising questions about vaccine safety is what's holding back his daughter? That's laughable. Sure, blame the discordant group. I'm sure the handful of people with SafeMinds, as opposed to the thousands working hand in hand with AS, Yale Study, U Washington, Kennedy Krieger are not at fault at all for the lack of usable info for autism. No, not at all. Back to SPAM you go. Happy trolling.

KIM

[TheProbe]

Censor this one:

Peter Hotez is the Walter G. Ross Professor and chairman of
Microbiology and Tropical Medicine at George Washington University
School of Medicine. He is also the father of an autistic daughter,
now a teenager.

"One of the reasons that I believe that we are at least ten years
behind in providing the right kind of services for autistic children
is because of the distraction that this whole vaccine-autism debate
has caused. It's led to a lack of focus on what's really needed. I
get very angry at a lot of these autism groups, like Safe Minds. It's
so difficult for me not to want to shake them and say, 'Don't you
realize that you're really doing a disservice to parents, not a
service?' And they're so self-righteous. They don't speak for all
autistic parents. They're certainly not speaking for me."

[Lila White]

Maybe this wasn't such a bad thing after all. Do we REALLY want a government agency doing this test? They'd either botch it and get the results they want or they'd end up hurting some kids because they didn't boost their nutritional status prior to chelation. ARI or DAN! are the only agencies qualified to do this anyway.

[Patrick]

Obtuse MODs: Nice censorship, particularly considering the desperation of your readers.

Managing Editor's Note: Patrick, per our moderation guidelines, we do not allow advertising of products in our comments. Your comment here is rude and offensive to our readers, whose children are in dire straits. Please peddle your hangover cure elsewhere. We don't have the time to party and get drunk, we're too busy with our kids.

Kim Stagliano

[Garbo]

Maybe we should think about pitching it as a reality show. Two groups of families dealing with autism. One group does biomed treatments including chelation etc. and the other group doesn't. By the end of the season, what do you suppose the rest of America would see? Of course, no Pharma-sponsored network would dare touch it. Maybe PBS.

[Carolyn M.]

Foxnews.com has this story as well, but their version of it has a quote from Rebecca Estepp of TACA. Unfortunately, they also included a quote from Dr. Offit (and mentioned his book). They did not use the word "fringe" until about halfway down the first page.