b) If I think about infanticide and even perhaps in tandem with suicide am I then a better parent? Do you love and accept your child more? Oh I am so confused. I thought it was I who accepted my child and loved her because I never gave up on her, I never accepted the gloom and doom predictions and never set the bar at the horribly low level you seem to have set. So, let's move on, I have so many questions. You have me so overwhelmingly confused. 4. Weight of Science a.) If Wakefield only studied 12 kids, that's not real science? b.) If your side studies only 14 kids, and says the GFCF diet doesn't work, then that is final, the debate is over, and the weight of science is now on the side that the diet doesn't work despite thousands of success stories that have never been investigated or studied? I just want to be clear on that one. This next one is really important to me so I would really like your clarification. 5. Recovery a.) If my child recovers (yes with all the snake oil money could buy) to the point of losing the diagnosis, excelling in school, and making many friends am I to assume she was misdiagnosed despite the original melt-downs, self-injury, non-verbal, flapping, rocking, etc.? You get the picture. Or the treatments had nothing to do with it and she would have reccovered anyway? (Sorry for the multi-part question) b.) If you do ABA and your child makes progress it was the ABA all the way baby, no doubt cause and affect? Can you make that observation yourself as a mother or do you need an expert to tell you that ABA is helping your child? Remember, your observations are antectdotal and don't count on account that you are a mother. 6. Other Disabilities a.) Are we the only parents who watched our perfectly normal children plunged into their disability immediately following an assault on their immune system? b.) or are only Autism parents looking for scapegoats because of our obviously bad autism genes while parents of children with down syndrome or cerebral palsey just sanely accept their lot in life? Please tell me Ms. Singer if I have it all right? 1 in 5000 with polio...Bad? 1 in 100 with Autism...Good? Infectious diseases...Bad? Life long debilitating and life shortening diseases...Good? Parents sounding alarm over obvious epidemic...Bad? CDC denying obvious epidemic...Good? Parents asking if Poling case might have been the answer to Autism...Bad? CDC secretly holding phone conferences because they think so too, while telling the public it is an anomaly...Good? Parents blaming vaccines...Bad? Doctors and scientists ignoring eye-witness testimony...Good? Doctors offering families hope, compassion, and treatments...Bad(snake oil salesmen or charlatan)? Doctors offering the opposite(or drugs)...Good(the real compassionate ones that have kids best interests at heart)? Parents sounding the alarm that the 3/4 of a million kids with Autism are going to bankrupt our nation and make the baby-boomer retirement look like a child's piggy bank...Bad? Ignoring the problem until our children are forced into institutions or on the streets...Good? Sorry if this was too many questions for you Alison, it is just that you had me so confused. I still haven't figured out how "we don't know" is translated into "the science is clear". You are setting out to convince others from your basement and your blood money pulpit that you are the rational one, the logical, sane, and compassionate one. I beg to differ. Now I have a headache, so I better call my doctor and get a prescription for some heavy duty narcotics because I am obviously incapable of deducing that previously lying down for a while and closing my eyes made the headache go away. What hogwash, uneducated and antectdotal drivel have I fallen victim to? Must be all my bad genes.