Chelation Therapy for Autism

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:00:00 GMT
From jomama:
"The plans differ; the planners are all alike..." -- Frederic Bastiat

From muth:

"This war in Iraq, in my opinion, is worse than anything Nixon did." -- George McGovern

# John Wiltbank at The Libertarian Enterprise - Adventures in Draft Dodging - Mr. Wiltbank sent a letter to the Selective Service (SS) five years ago, signing the draft registration form, but stating that he wanted to be unregistered, as he didn't agree to be enslaved. He's still a free man along with some 3 million other people who never registered. [tle]

I hope this will strongly encourage all you young readers to not register. Come on, even the common sheeple ignore this nonsense; what kind of libertarian are you if you docilely comply? The chances of bad consequences are extremely low. To put things in perspective, driving a car carries an exponentially greater risk of jail time or other violations of your freedom. Look at me: I made an unwise, grandstanding gesture that could only have drawn attention to myself and got me put on some list. Despite this, the fodder-herders still have not come out to arrest me.

# Vin Suprynowicz at The Las Vegas Review-Journal - Success in treating autism? - Chelation therapy takes mercury out of the bodies of people who genetically can't do it themselves. Apparently, it sometimes cures autism. Far out! I won't hold my breath for the f.d.a. to approve it. But I'll recommend Generation Rescue to any parents of autistic kids I meet.

In Royal Palm, Fla., Charlie Hoover's 7-year-old son, Lenny, suffered classic symptoms of autism: spinning in circles, repetitive behaviors and tantrums. "After Lenny's diagnosis, the more I read, the more the knot in my stomach tightened," Hoover explains. "It was as if our son had died."

But after chelation therapy rid Lenny's body of mercury, his father contends his symptoms disappeared. Lenny, who loves to play T-ball, is now enrolled in regular kindergarten.

"If your child got lead poisoning from eating paint chips, you would certainly do something about that," Hoover says. "What's the difference between mercury and lead?"

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimate of more than 1 in 166 children diagnosed with autism is up from 1 in 2,500 since the 1970s -- a time frame that parallels an enormous increase in the number of childhood vaccinations recommended here in America, vaccines which to this day can contain mercury-based thimerosal preservative (though the stuff has been removed from veterinary vaccines, having been judged unsafe for pets).

But the CDC -- which has actually terminated research into any links between autism and heavy metal poisoning (see my columns of Sept. 12 through Sept. 26, 2004) -- still contends autism is an untreatable, lifelong disorder.

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