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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.
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This whole autism topic is rather annoying. Finding a "cure"? Omfg. There's a ton of evidence showing that medical science (pharmaceutical companies, in particular) have basically caused the autism rates we're faced with today.
Over the past 10 or 20 years, there's been a way-more-than-coincidental relationship to the presence of mercury in most shots we give our children and the rates of autism. A quick google for "autism mercury" might give you some interesting reading: http://www.google.com/search?q=autism+mercury The latest autism rates are now below 1 in 100 children. Think about that - when you were a kid (however old you are), had you even heard of autism? Today, there are entire wings of schools that are dedicated solely for the autistic children, in addition to schools / learning centers that cater exclusively to autistic kids.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a goddamn shame that so many kids are autistic today. I'm a parent, and I cannot imagine what life would be like if my child were autistic. But this whole topic infuriates me, because the "problem" is apparently caused by the very companies who are now producing a "cure". How convenient. I wonder how many billions of dollars that'll be worth to those pharmaco bastards.
The sad thing is, if you actually compare the data for most diseases for which children are vaccinated, the extreme negative side effects (caused by the drugs / shots, even if only in a small percentage of children) are so, so much worse than if the kid contracts the disease in the first place. Plus, vaccinations produce immunity that is not passed on to your offspring (by mothers), so vaccinations eff with nature's own process of protecting our offspring. Instead, if a child fights an illness naturally, their body will build a natural immunity and their immune system in general will be much better at doing what it's supposed to do - keep the kid healthy.
Too often I see people being cut some slack because they have xxx syndrome. Give it a label and bad behavior is suddenly OK. "No he isn't a rude prick, he's got xxxx, and famous person yyy had this.". "He's not slack about spelling and grammar, he's dyslexic..."
Sure, often said people are bright, but it is no guarantee. If the person is very hard to deal with then you waste a lot of time mopping up. In one place I worked, we had a very bright guy with some condition or other, but it absorbed about 50% of a senior experienced person's time to keep him doing the right stuff. As a result the experienced person had insufficient time to bring their wisdom to bear on the problems.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
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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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.
So-called 'autism' and 'Asperger's syndrome' are caused by events in childhood - i.e. bad parenting- even ONE instance of violence against a child is all that's needed.
Sorry to burst the bubble of all the 'my genes made me do it' crowd. I realise none of you would dare to question the bullshit you've been spoonfed for the past twenty years, about 'genes', but unfortunately I'm right.