Post Mercury
Jan 9th, 2008 at 8:03 am by Susie
I’m assuming my good friends from Wampum will be able to add something to this discussion:
LOS ANGELES - Autism cases in California continued to climb after a mercury-rich vaccine preservative that some people blame for the neurological disorder was removed from routine childhood shots, a new study found.
Researchers from the state Department of Public Health found the autism rate in children rose continuously during the 12-year study period from 1995 to 2007. The preservative thimerosal has not been used in childhood vaccines since 2001, but is used in some flu shots.
Doctors say the latest study adds to evidence refuting a link between thimerosal exposure and autism risk and should reassure parents that the disorder is not caused by vaccinations. If there was a risk, they said, autism rates should have dropped between 2004 and 2007.
The findings show “no evidence of mercury poisoning in autism” because there was no decline in autism rates even after the elimination of thimerosal, said Dr. Eric Fombonne, an autism researcher at Montreal Children’s Hospital, who had no role in the research.
I thought the deal with California and it’s wanking high Autism rates was that people on the autism spectrum were drawn to computer tech type jobs, and drawn to Silicon valley, where they interbred, and all that crap. I’m also thinking the unchanging weather might be a draw for a lot of Spectrum People.
Never fucking mind.
“For their study, California public health officials calculated the autism rate by analyzing a database of state-funded centers that care for people with autism and other developmental disorders. They found the prevalence of autism in children ages 3 to 12 increased throughout the study period.
For example, 0.3 per 1,000 children born in 1993 had autism at age 3, compared with 1.3 per 1,000 children born in 2003. Similar trends were found in other age groups.”
Autism was still the great unknown in 1993. If this statistical analysis is this simplistic, it is null and void.
Figures don’t lie, but fucking assholes do.
I am so not getting this boddhisatva thing, am I?
You know, no one can MAKE you be a bodhisattva.
OK, but is it possible to BUY a bodhisattva diploma
for the wall of my den?