Food for thought

[Michaelaw]

Thanks for the link Bambi. In digging deeper into this I'm also finding studies that insist there is a link, and it doesn't help when CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding, admitted during a CNN interview ( though it was in 2008 but beyond the link you provided to a story from 2006?) that vaccines can trigger autism in a certain vulnerable subset of children. So once again I feel sort of powerless, I mean the truth is out there...Somewhere. Sometimes I really wish I could just swallow and believe what I'm told, Life would be so much simpler but alas, I've seen far to many examples of bad science and dis info for profit waged to ever let my guard down

Edit to add....Funny but doing all this research reminded me of when I was a child. On at least two occasions we got hold of mercury from busted thermometers and rolled it around in our hands for extended periods of time. I was later diagnosed with a mild case of Aspergers syndrome and sent off to Littlegreen boarding school. Could there be a connection? Anyone else hearing that Twilight Zone music

[Bambi]

Thanks for the link Bambi. In digging deeper into this I'm also finding studies that insist there is a link, and it doesn't help when CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding, admitted during a CNN interview ( though it was in 2008 but beyond the link you provided to a story from 2006?) that vaccines can trigger autism in a certain vulnerable subset of children. So once again I feel sort of powerless, I mean the truth is out there...Somewhere. Sometimes I really wish I could just swallow and believe what I'm told, Life would be so much simpler but alas, I've seen far to many examples of bad science and dis info for profit waged to ever let my guard down

Edit to add....Funny but doing all this research reminded me of when I was a child. On at least two occasions we got hold of mercury from busted thermometers and rolled it around in our hands for extended periods of time. I was later diagnosed with a mild case of Aspergers syndrome and sent off to Littlegreen boarding school. Could there be a connection? Anyone else hearing that Twilight Zone music

Hi Michael, I will try to track down the more recent article the seems to have settled the debate in scientific circles.

Autism is now viewed as neurologically based. therefore, siezure disorders can often be linked to autism (landau kleffner syndrome being one such). but not all children with seizures are autistic. and for those that are the seizures are present under 2 years of age. Aspergers fits on the mild end of the ASD spectrum. However, the link to mercury and neurological disorders I have no knowledge of what soever. I do know that the human brain is a very complex organism and that I doubt the mercury did it. How old were you when you started to play with it?

[Marko]

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate these provocative non-photographic threads. Lotsa interesting members with interesting viewpoints on our board

[Bambi]

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate these provocative non-photographic threads. Lotsa interesting members with interesting viewpoints on our board

thanks. Sometimes I think that I think too much...but that leads in a circle