From John Gilmore: Shrunk

Great comment from John Gilmore of Autism Action Network on NY Times story on DSM-V: "This is to be expected from the Times. If anything the New York Times sees itself as the stentorian voice of the secular credentialed elites....

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Dachel Media Update: 10/24

Online newsOct 22, 2012, CBS News: U.S. boys reaching puberty up to 2 years earlier, study suggests 

Oct 23, 2012, PEDIATRICS Organic Foods: Health and Environmental Advantages and Disadvantages

Oct 23, 2012, Alice TX Echo News Journal: Almouie Pediatrics: Is Autism the New Childhood Epidemic? What you need to know

Oct 23, 2012, Knoxville, TN WATE-TV: 1 in 88 children diagnosed with autism

Oct. 24, 2012, PsychCentral: Link Between Schizophrenia, Bipolar and Autism? 

CBS News

Just like with autism, this change in children is no cause for concern and it may not even be a real trend. No matter what happens to our children’s health—no one has any answers.  This is one more mystery. Children grow up with toxic food, air, water, medicine and vaccines and clearly something is happening here. Still, there’s never an alarm being sounded.

“What explains the shift? Unproven theories range from higher levels of obesity and inactivity to chemicals in food and water, all of which might interfere with normal hormone production. And some experts question whether the trend is even real.”

PEDIATRICS:

The American Academy of Pediatrics is looking into organic food.  Seriously, would we expect any preference for organic from the people who think it’s safe to inject dozens of vaccines into children containing known toxins like AL and HG and live viruses? According to the AAP, there’s no evidence that a diet laced with chemicals is harmful. None of them have any intuitive feelings about corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, aspartame, dyes, antibiotics, pesticides, preservatives, growth hormones, and GMO crops evidently.

And of course studies would have to be done if they really wanted to know and they “would be difficult to perform.” (Reminds me of the vaxed/non-vaxed comparison study and why it’s never been done.)

Echo News Journal: 

Dr. Almouie never tells us if autism an epidemic? He doesn’t even give us the rate.

“What you need to know”The only thing we learn is what the signs to look for are. That’s all parents need to know because that’s all doctors really know.

Too bad if your child shows these signs; nothing can be done to prevent it. This complacency in the face of an epidemic is outrageous. The medical community is ready to profit from the damage that’s being done while doing nothing to stop it.

WATE-TV:

The numbers are staggering, the cost is overwhelming.  A boy didn’t speak and he needed therapy seven times a week---and no one can tell us why.  The director of the Autism Society of East Tennessee said, “There’s group that believes it’s vaccines…we don’t know.”

It’s incredible to see these pathetic news reports day after day—from all over the country---talking about the epidemic with no known cause.  Autism continues to cripple us and we refuse to demand answers. 

PsychCentral

This study is just out and will probably be picked up by the mainstream press. It reinforces the idea that autism is genetic.

“Weiser and his team studied extensive databases in Israel and Sweden and discovered that schizophrenia and autism had a genetic link, representing a heightened risk within families.”

And it means that scientists will have a new reason to pour more money into genetic autism research. 

Researchers believe the genetic connection could be a missing link and provide a fresh direction for study.”

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