When You Call Us Nazis, Remember This Boy.
To those who delight in comparing us to Nazis, taking the darkest chapter in modern history and contorting it to meet your bizarre quest, remember this boy. He is not in Dachau, he's in the United Kingdom battling autism and severe bowel disease. Read more about Josh at A mother's plea.
I also remember being told over and over that I was completely healthy and that I simply had a fast metabilism.
Reason one why I do not take any doctor's word as gospel anymore!
Posted by: Darian (nickname) | March 31, 2010 at 12:33 PM
Nazi? Really?
This brings back painful memories of my younger days. I too know what it is to lose weight rapidly without being able to do anything. I could eat, but no matter how much I ate, or what vitamins I took, I would never gain weight. I was a 60 lbs 14 year old!! It was not till I was diagnosed at 18 with Aspergers and diet changes such as removal of certain foods and all forms of sugar and caffeine that I was finally able to gain weight again. I will never forget going into my mom's room after viewing myself in the body length mirror after a shower and being able to see all the bones in my body and crying and crying and crying for hours! Or what if felt like when I was called into the nurse’s office and my mom was called and asked if she noticed any changes in me and if she thought I was anorexic! What if felt like to lie on my stomach at night and feel the uncomfortable feeling of my pillow going slightly between the ribs through skin…WHEN WILL THIS STOP!!! WE DID NOTHING WRONG TO DESERVE THIS! DAMN YOU CDC AND MERK!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!
YOU ARE THE NAZI'S!!
Posted by: Darian (nickname) | March 31, 2010 at 09:48 AM
A word that often comes to my mind when reading about the horrors of vaccine injuries and government backing of vaccine industry propaganda is "Nazism"...A greed inspired Nazi experiment on millions of innocent children.
Blaming autism on "genetics" is ridiculous considering that this flies in the face of what is known and proven regarding genetic mutations. Since when does a genetic mutution occur within a 25 year period among a generation of children?
Yes, there is the damaged DNA issue, but which came first, the chicken or the egg? Toxic chemicals have been shown to produce alterations in DNA. In children with autism who have DNA testing, unless the parents are shown to have the same exact DNA alterations, it was not inherited, but instead ACQUIRED. Toxic vaccine overloads can produce DNA alterations on top of a gazillion other health issues. No children who have been assaulted with the American vaccine schedule are getting off scott free. If they don't end up with autism, it's just a matter of time to see what else develops.
Hitler would be proud of what the vaccine industry has done to American children. He couldn't have thought of a better idea himself.
Posted by: Autism Grandma | March 30, 2010 at 08:49 PM
Kevin-- Edwin Black writes a long introduction in that book about how he did not feel that these indistutions continued to represent eugenic values, that he didn't want to convey this, that these institutions opened their records to him, etc.
I felt his statement could be parsed a bit. These particular institutions have not shed all their eugenic "dandruff" if you look deeply into their funding habits and corporate agendas. I do know what he meant though. Mendelian genetics came first and then Galton coopted and bastardized the concept into something which could never be extrapolated by Mendel's experiments. And now we know there are genes for certain things-- it's how we know that the chromosome studies of autism are so far garbage. There is a basic standard for genetic research. It's just that, since so few people understand the complexity, genetics is still being coopted for eugenic agendas. I believe that "proving" that autism is not environmental is not a eugenic agenda per se-- not in the ideological sense-- but it relies upon the same superstitions in order to pull the wool over the public's eyes for the purpose of corporate cover up. It relies on bigotry to fly, in other words.
Posted by: Gatogorra | March 29, 2010 at 05:59 PM
Eugenics needed a makeover after WWII. It was rebranded under the name Human Genetics. The American Society for Human Genetics was founded in 1948.
"After the world recoiled from Nazi atrocities, the American eugenics movement — its institutions and leading scientists —
renamed and regrouped under the banner of an enlightened science called human genetics."
“War Against the Weak” by Edwin Black
http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/
"The main culprits were the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune, in league with America's most respected scientists hailing from such prestigious universities as Harvard, Yale and Princeton, operating out of a complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island."
Posted by: Kevin Barry | March 29, 2010 at 05:22 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O5-4uCU3T4
"Crutches and prosthetic limbs remind us that the first people exterminated where mentally and physically ill German citizens."
Posted by: Media Scholar | March 29, 2010 at 12:38 PM
What a reverso world epithet. All the power, resources and censorship on one side. All the dead and injured children on the other. Which side are most like the Nazis?
Some other things about Naziism.
- While in prison, Hitler adopted his eugenic philosophy from a medical tome arguing for the genetic foundations of all disability, all mental illness and cultural and racial difference.
- The Nazis killed disabled children first, based on a concept of genetic "cleansing". Nazi records include elaborate calculations about the amount of money and sausages saved by the state by killing these individuals rather than having to provide services, therapy and cures.
- The increase in birth defects and disabilities-- again, all deemed genetic-- were often new or de novo mutations now suspected in some circles to be environmentally mediated, probably due to Germany's role as a leader in the booming chemical industry at the time, some due to the wide use of highly mutagenic mustard gas in WWI.
- Some of the concepts of genetic basis of certain mental disabilities were derived from corrupt Nazi research. Nazi collaborator Franz Kallmann's twin studies are still used in American text books to argue the genetic basis of schizophrenia and are the model for "autism twins studies".
Posted by: Gatogorra | March 29, 2010 at 11:57 AM