By Dan Olmsted
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The death of Alex Spourdalakis is really freaking out the
pharma-phunded shills, vaccine injury apologists and self-appointed advocates
for themselves, who have mounted what seems like a coordinated effort to
discredit Sharyl Attkisson's strong reporting on the tragedy.
What to do? Let CBS know they shouldn't listen to a half
a dozen hacks who turn up like worms after a thunderstorm to try to deflect
attention from the real issue -- the lack of proper medical care for children
suffering -- yes, suffering -- from autism. That suffering surely includes, in
many cases as in Alex's, the kind of acute GI damage that Sharyl's report
showed last Friday.
You don't hear any of the shills worrying about that.
Rather, they trot out the usual key words -- quack, crank, discredited, etc. --
to shut down conversation.
Maybe these geniuses could show us what a healthy gut
looks like and we can compare it to Alex's.
Unlikely. Instead, these guys make it sound like the
report excused Alex's death -- "his murder," as Sharyl labeled it
several times -- by his mother and caregiver ("his killers," Sharyl
said).
Say what?
As more vaccine court cases linked to autism emerge, the
CDC starts talking about vague "environmental" causes (yes, your
vaccines!) and parents (wisely) pick and choose their kids' vaccine schedule,
this sad, desperate effort to shut down good reporting that veers too close to
the truth gets louder.
Here's how Sharyl's straightforward reporting gets
twisted. During the segment, Sharyl introduces an interview with Ari Ne'eman:
"He says lack of help is no excuse for murder."
Pretty clear, eh?
But over at Left Brain Right Brain, Matt Carey chose to ignore
Sharyl's words and quote the accompanying CBS Web site report: "The
written article states, 'But some in the
autism advocacy community take issue with the idea that lack of help is an
excuse for murder.'”
Not idea wording -- all, not some, in the autism advocacy
community, and every decent person everywhere, takes issue with anything as an
"excuse" for murder. (Probably written by an intern after watching
Sharyl's segment.) But hey, it's fodder for making Sharyl look insensitive.
Carey writes: "Really? Only some? And is this somehow limited to the
autism community? Ms. Attkisson, what is your position? Is a lack of support an
excuse for murder?"
Hey Matt, murder is illegal. Hey Ari, this comment you
made to Sharyl is the definition of a straw-man argument: "I think an
ideology, a dangerous ideology that preaches that people are better off dead
than disabled is what led to Alex Spourdalakis' murder."
What ideology, preached by whom?
Sharyl is up for three Emmy Awards this year, including
ground-breaking work on the Benghazi attack. This after her reporting on Fast
and Furious that shook things up in the Justice Department. But now, on this
issue alone, she's gone completely off the rails?
I don't buy it.
So call CBS at 212-975-3247 and support Sharyl. Click CBS Feedback HERE to use their message form.
Tweet @cbsnews and @cbsthismorning, and
thank the Tiffany network for not bowing to pharma's special interest errand
boys, and for taking not just the death, but the life of Alex Spourdalakis
seriously.
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Dan Olmsted is Editor of Age of Autism.