Dr. Guttmacher of the NIH and IACC has told congress that a treatment has been elusive, yet Dr. Theoharides has been showing one that works and asking for funding for over 4 years.

Dr. Theoharides and others have done clinical trial showing how effective Luteolin is and how the prescription form is even more effective, yet the NIH will not fund this.

Dr. Guttmacher. "In terms of therapy, in terms of behavioral interventions and other kinds of things that are being---they're emerging, that are being developed,

...in terms of something like a medical therapy, I think we're much farther away from those kinds of interventions, though one would hope that eventually we would have those to offer as well."

Being UK based, I don't often comment on purely US issues, but I find this blatant ignorant waffle to Congress on the part of Dr Guttmacher quite shocking. Quite apart from the waste of $billions of US taxpayers' cash, (although the Big Pharma investment is certainly paying dividends,with all those Ritalin and Psychotropic drugs prescribed to autistic children).

I have used Godfrey's accurate transcript extract, no less shocking than Katie's memory recall:-

The only 'medical interventions' my poor Grandson got, were those administered at the Royal Free hospital, London. under the overall care of Professor Walker-Smith, 1998-2002. These included dealing with an impacted colon, without which he would likely have ended up with a colostomy bag. At that time my Grandson had not been officially diagnosed autistic. His medical care was purely for his gut problems. After the 1998 Wakefield et al Lancet paper and its terrible aftermath, the special clinic at the Royal Free was disbanded by the incoming UCL Medical Director, who also got rid of Dr Wakefield. Prof Walker-Smith retired and Prof Murch was sent to another hospital. (Thanks a bundle Prof Mark Pepys). It was another 5 years before these 3 good men were dragged before the GMC and another 3 years before all three were found guilty. Prof W-S won his subsequent High Court Appeal, but Dr Wakefield could not afford the huge costs, without insurance cover. Prof Murch was allowed to keep his medical licence to practise.

The NHS prescribed gluten/casein free diet worked wonders and enabled my grandson to attend a normal school class, with some extra targeted help. His 'challenging behaviour' was plainly caused by the physical pain he felt and still lives with. At that time this dietary intervention was very expensive and not widely available; the not quite coeliac condition was very rare. Now every supermarket has a large 'free from' display and children with restricted dietary requirements are prolifering, along with autism, diabetes, asthma and a plethora of allegies and auto immune conditions.

Whilst Guttmacher was spending his $millions on God knows what useless research, and perfecting his waffle, desperate parents of autistic children, were networking and sharing their own experiences and ameliorating interventions, including restricted diets. Since these were and still are effectively regarded as 'alternative' therapies, they are targeted by the pro-vaccine lobby and called 'quackery'. Several media and press 'health pages and programmes' accused parents of denying children essential calcium, by restricting dairy foods. This is complete rubbish; calcium is a common element and is present in meat, fish, eggs and vegetables, all of which are permitted on a GF/CF diet. It is vitamin D which is essential for healthy bones. Because this malignant propaganda is mostly written by doctors, no doubt 'sponsored' by Pharma industries, it is unfortunately believed by members of the public.

Recently a UK mother of a profoundly autistic adult son was found guilty of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, (Factitious Disorder), in a Court of Protection. Amongst other (admitted in court to be completely harmless) interventions, her adult son was fed a GF/CF diet and administered daily probiotics.

We now have a situation where Big Pharma is seeking to profit from these same interventions. An infamous Forbes article by Emily Willingham blames Dr Wakefield for the complete lack of any medical care for the (now admitted) autistic children with bowel problems, during the 16 years subsequent to the 1998 Lancet paper. Who the hell is she kidding?

Recent official press releases from the medical mafia, also now appear to endorse the 'quackery' we have all been using to help our medically neglected children. However, these are miraculously presented as recent discoveries. Watch this space.

" Of course he disregards all the toxic effects of vaccines; his mind is totally closed."

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Which is exactly the way it's being paid to be.

With Dr. Alan Guttmacher in charge, no wonder nothing got done. His responses at the 11/29/2012 Congressional Oversight Committee hearing on the "Federal Response to Rise in Autism Rates" were mealy-mouthed, evasive, and pathetic.

Another part of the hearing that stands out in my memory is when Rep. Patrick Meeham interviewed Dr. G on whether there is any sense of urgency, anything being accomplished, and Dr. Guttmacher says that if Congress isn't happy with the IACC, Congress should do something, and that there has been an "acceleration in progress".

Beginning at 1:19:20 here:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?309672-1/federal-response-rise-autism-rates
The video takes a while to load/buffer.

No specific accomplishments to point to, but he sees an "acceleration in progress". What kind of bull is that?

Out of 1+ Billion dollars, how much of that effort has gone beyond a "30 second DNA cheek swab" for any given child ???

How much Dr./ patient office time has been given to any child with this 10 year effort which has found exactly nothing ???

"Almost 2 yrs ago Dr. Guttmacher was asked to testify in front of the Congressional Office of Government Accountability. Congresspersons asked Guttmacher to give examples of treatment progress resulting from the last 10 yrs of NIH funded autism research."

Assuming the reference is to the November 2012 hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (there is no "Congressional Office of Government Accountability"), I can find nothing in the transcript that corresponds to Katie Wright's description involving an exchange culminating with "Give me an example of a treatment innovative, EXCLUDING ABA."

On page 60, the following occurs:

"Mr. Matheson. I'm not a statistician. I just see a big difference in numbers. So it would be helpful if we could understand why that number's different.

"In my limited time I'd like to ask one other question. Can any of you tell me about any new therapy approaches that are emerging for effectiveness in treating autism?

"Dr. Guttmacher. In terms of therapy, in terms of behavioral interventions and other kinds of things that are being---they're emerging, that are being developed, in terms of something like a medical therapy, I think we're much farther away from those kinds of interventions, though one would hope that eventually we would have those to offer as well.

"Mr. Matheson. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll yield back."

Linda1, I hope Congress addresses this happening- or non-happening by the NIH.

Beth,
I would make it Perpetuating the Autism Epidemic: How the NIH, DHSS, IACC, and America's Public Schools Have Failed Our Children. In eight years the public school did NOTHING to help my autistic daughter. A para and the standard language therapy, half an hour twice a week, that was all. Putting her in groups and telling her to have at, converse, when she had never ever said a complete sentence independently. In November the speech therapist said that they were working on greetings and farewells, because my daughter still very rarely even says Hi! How are you? Until we did it in ESL work at home last year, she had never used a prepositional phrase like in the box or on the steps. Never said There it is! much less anything else. And yet, rather than recognize that the problem was severe brain damage caused by at least the hep-B vaccine (encephalitis) and the DTaP booster (wiped out her few words, diagnosed with autism two months later), they insist the language structures are there, she just doesn't want to use them from "social anxiety." Not a single textbook developmentally appropriate for her that she could read, understand, do exercises using, and be tested on. Nothing. The logical thing would be intensive instruction using English as a Second Language techniques, because the inborn language structures in the brain that Chomsky described so brilliantly were severely damaged by vaccines and extensive intense work with demonstration, set-up situations to practice each discrete small structure, and real-life practice with peers would work, but it would require a new mindset and a new system. This is the theory behind ABA, and it would work, but applied specifically to language and extending over many years in all probability. They could use textbooks written at an easier level with colored photos and pictures, and appropriate work. Ten facts to learn for every section. My daughter could have done that, learned, and progressed, but instead was given typical materials, very complex by the eighth grade level, completely beyond her ability to comprehend on any level, and the para was told to explain it to her. They could have a formal program for Relationship Development Intervention, to create a friendship with the therapist/teacher and the group, which would do projects and play games which required the student to use spoken language for its usefulness.

I have learned that the underlying philosophy impelling this idiocy is that for the last ten or twenty years the trend has been to an inclusive classroom for special ed students. The autism resource specialist told me a month ago that while Cecily would have learned more academically from the old-style special ed set-up which used materials adapted to the students' comprehension level, the new philosophy believes that it is more important to expose all students to the typical experiences of the normally-functioning. Great. Without the ability to use language, my daughter can't understand what other people say or why, can't contribute anything at all, can't do any of the work independently. So she had breakdowns in class, and their solution was to put her with a computer to do PLATO! online learning lessons for typical middle-schoolers, not adapted to her comprehension level at all. And didn't notice for four months that she understood nothing until she failed all the tests in May. Their other recourse is the officially-condoned policy of giving her as well as all the special ed students unable to do anything in typical classrooms As and Bs on their report cards just by a stroke of the pen, look at Ds and Fs magically transformed!

The schools have done NOTHING and refuse to even listen to new ideas, I assume because they would have to allow the question of what happened to cause all this severe brain damage in the last generation. The next step would have been high school, more typical classes Cecily could understand nothing of, but with a new addition! The STEPS program would have transported her to a hospital to see if maybe they might be more successful in teaching her to fetch and carry, to prepare her for employment. I said she's developmentally delayed more like a much younger child, she should have a school program designed to teach her basic knowledge, use of language, and, after that, social skills. Their innovative new program is apparently to whitewash the modern equivalent of sending kids to work in the coal mines, a program created because NOTHING they have used so far has been of any use at all.

What is so difficult about conducting a national study on Children's health. In 2013, the EPA published it's third report on children's health called "America's Children and the Environment" (ACE) here is the link to the reports key findings: (scroll to health section):

http://www.epa.gov/ace/keyfindings.html

Thank you, Katie, for this excellent summary of government fraud committed against taxpayers, children, and most especially, against vaccine-injured children, who now number far too many to count.

Only one correction I see that needs to be made: Mr. Guttmacher (I refuse to call him a doctor, one who first, does no harm, as he has inflicted vast harm by not immediately calling for a halt of our nation's clearly-toxic-and-dangerous vaccine program, by refusing to study the myriad of horrifying effects of vaccines on infants and children, and by wasting over a billion dollars that could have been used with purpose and for good) should not resign...HE SHOULD BE FIRED, jailed for misuse of taxpayers' money, stripped of his medical license, and be vaccinated on a daily basis while in jail.

When you think about it the NIH probably gained another 1.2 billion to stop the study. Adding up the contributions from Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Ely Lilly and Gates over the past 3 years didn't they make a combined 1.2 billion dollars of funding to the NIH?

Guttmacher seems to have arrived at NIH in 2009, the same time as Collins. As previously noted Collins had already worked out in 2006 that the rise in autism was real and could not be accounted for by genetics but was resolved on the perverse course of focussing on finding out which genes were susceptible rather than what was doing the poisoning. Guttmacher on the other hand is just waffling years later.

It also sounds like the bluster of Michael Rutter the UK's leading paediatric psychiatrist in to Private Eye 2005 - despite being head of the profession for 30 years he did know whether the rise was real or not.

http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/30/further-bemusement-sir-michaels-role-vagueness-and-certainty

This was only capped in its inadequacy by Prof Uta Frith maintaining that the increased popularity of the diagnosis was down to the film Rain Man:

http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/01/utter-froth-autism-epidemic-caused-by-the-film-rain-man.html

But what action would you take if you were a decent competent professional, already used to diagnosing autism, but suddenly seeing 30/40 times as many cases perhaps?