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Possible Cure For Autism
Henry V .009 writes "Scientists in New Jersey are claiming that children with autism are unable to metabolize key fatty acids that fight brain-damaging inflammations. They have already developed urine/blood tests to identify at-risk children. A preventive cure to autism may be as simple as a 'therapeutic cocktail' of fatty acids. Human trials could start later this year."
I guess all those "high functioning aspergers" people on the Internet are going to finally realize they don't have some excuse anymore when it turns out they don't have autism at all.
This is great. It's about time they tied this down to something that can be tested for so the people with real problems can get help, and all the Internet whiners can learn to deal with life instead of always searching for a cop-out.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
The worst thing in psychopaths like the GP is that they tend to be ACs not only on slashdot. Usually people with views like that are child molesters, or they spank homosexuals, or do some other stupid acts while covering as role model citizens, and here at slashdot they troll as ACs because they are not man enough to assume their opinions.
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Ok, I'll bite.
How much more evidence of trans-fat induced mental illness can you provide than currently exists showing that mercury is a known, proven poison for developing brains? Seriously, one question. That's it. Every doctor on the planet will tell you that mercury is toxic. What evidence exists showing that trans-fats have anything to do with autism? Or brain development?
It's rather suprising how nobody seems to question doctors, pharmacos, or the drones of citizens who read a fucking marketing brochure and think all of their problems are solved with a magical pill or shot. What the hell happened to critical thinking?
Look, as kids in the 80s (or earlier) everyone received a handful of shots, and this was drastically increased around 1990 to be way more than 3 shots. The FDA references citing tolerable amounts of mercury are talking about ONE SHOT. They do not discuss taking that tolerable amount and multiplying it for each shot the kid gets, which results in 4x or 8x or whatever.
Seriously, you think transfats are what's turned a 1 in 2,500 autism rate into 1 in 100 in 10 years? And that mercury in most vaccines and shots has nothing to do with it?
Always keep this in mind: things are the way they are precisely because people want it that way. If they wanted things to be different, it's entirely within their power to change. All they have to do is stop being idiots for the 0.4 seconds it takes to put a check-mark in a box on a ballot slip.
I'm sick of depressed people using their diagnosis to defend their apathy and misery, as well. I'm not happy either, but you don't see me killing myself. Get over yourselves, people.
And schizophrenics... don't get me started.
"We have no clue. There is little-to-no scientific basis for anything we say because it cannot be consistently tested or replicated. Therefore, when we're called on our poor diagnoses, this is the word we use to slip out of the obvious conclusion that we're making half this shit up."
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.