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  • I agree with this. They want the masses confused so they can have control. It's in the vaccines people. When will we wake up?

  • Heraldblog, StumpyOuch, batigol47, kpawns are just a few of the BigPharma trolls that post on these videos to try to tell you that mercury is safe, vaccines are safe, etc.

    They have vested interests in keeping people poisoned and fooled.

    Do not listen to them.

    and save yourself some grief,

    Do Not Feed These Trolls.

    They are EVIL.

  • he's completly right

  • What kind of drops is he using to chelate his son?

  • Very interesting. Thanks for the upload.

    It's clearly time to consider some alternative explanations and measures.

  • I would respectfully advise you to take a look at the readily available research that routinely debunks Handley's irresponsible hyperbole. There is no scientifically accepted connection between autism and mercury poisoning.

    It's a shame that emotional internet anecdotes and interviews with quacks and celebrities are somehow more valuable to the public than qualified studies.

  • I lined up the symptoms of autism and mercury poisoning side by side, and they are staggering.

  • but not the same.

  • Yes they are, over 100. Many autistic symptoms are unique to only autism and mercury poisoning (e.i. hand flapping, toe walking)

  • wrong again, but keep trying.

  • I am 57, never had vaccines till 6 and was an aspie before that...blows your snakeoil shilling

  • Not really, since vaccines aren't the only source of mercury exposure...

  • Further, Asperger was AUSTRIAN and described the condition during WWII. This guy has more factual errors in his commentary than Carter has little pills.

  • You are the only person I know who thinks Dr. Asperger was erroneous in his report.

  • Who said anything about Asperger was erroneous? I said YOU were.

  • The rise in mercury in shots in 1992 DOES NOT coincide with the rise in autism that began with the change in the DSM in 1988.

  • The increase of thimerosal in vaccines began in 1986-1990 with the implementation of the CDC's mandated vaccine program in the US.

    This also increased with the addition of the HepB and HIB vaccine in 1986 and 1990.

    This does precede the rise of autism in the late 1980s.

  • Hep B was added in 1992, as I stated before, and the first widespread Hib B was not until 1988 with the advent of the conjugate vaccine (the original polysaccharide version does not contain thimerosal).

    Again, the years do not coincide as you want them to,

  • Autism rates did not explode by 6000% percent because of a change of diagnosis. Where are all the 30 year olds with autism?

    UC Davis study: "Younger ages at diagnosis, differential migration, changes in diagnostic criteria, and inclusion of milder cases do not fully explain the observed increases."

  • There are 30 year olds nationwide with autism. They are diagnosed with other things. They are not covered by IDEA and there is little benefit to relabeling them.

    The rise is also not anywhere near 6000%. According to that UC Davis study (just so we use the same criteria) it is in the 600-700% range. That same UC Davis report acknowledged that at least half of that came from diagnostic changes.

  • Nationwide it was 6000%. California keeps better track than other states because they have an autism registry.  Still, a 6 to 7-fold increase in a rare childhood disease is a huge increase...

  • UC Davis' study was using California statistics numbnuts.

  • You have to be ignorant to ignore the fact that the first studies of autism occured during WW2. The children in the original studies would now be in their 70s.

  • 1 in every 150 people above the age of 60 has autism? Again, where are all the 30 year old with autism? There are a few, but there should be 1 in every 150 if you are correct.

    Autism was first reported in the 1940s as a new disease after cases were discovered in the 1930s (the mercury preservative thimerosal first used in vaccines in 1929...)

    It was very rare until the late 1980s when the prevalence skyrockted

  • It was rare because there wasn't a standard diagnosis before 1980. 1987 saw an expansion of that criteria which just happens to coincide exactly with current rise while those for mild to moderate retardation have plummeted. Nearly all of the increase is attributable to that change in diagnosis. Not all, but most.

  • doctors who have been practicing for decades have said neurological disorders/autism or whatever you want to label it has been increasing substantially. I don't believe vaccines would be the only cause, but a major factor.

  • so where are the newly diagnosed 30 year olds with autism? I fail to see your logic

  • You fail to see my logic because you apparently do not know what logic is. Autism is diagnosed in childhood. Children are diagnosed for educational and social welfare reasons. There is no benefit for re-diagnosing a 30 or 60 year old as an adult. Either they already receive help under another diagnosis or they are making their way.

  • Adults are being diagnosed, but you just never hear about them because that would not be a ratings goldmine the way that JB's ignorance is.

  • There were historical figures that had numerous autistic traits such as Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. If autism really was caused by mercury poisoning, then autism would have more mercury poisoning symptoms.

  • Mercury has been used in medicine since ancient times. Abraham Lincoln took blue pills of mercury, for instance.

  • Depends on what kind of mercury poisoning you are talking about. From a single, severe exposure far above what is regarded safe (occupational exposure for example), you are more likely to die from kidney failure than you are to develop severe neurological problems. From chronic, low dose exposure during childhood, you can develop symptoms which mimic autism. Look up childhood acrodynia.

  • Handley is either lying, or has no idea what he is talking about. That news anchor should be horsewhipped for letting him go on like that. Unbelievable.

  • He has gone as far as saying that autistic adults do not exist. Such blatant ignorance. He is exploiting autistic individuals for his own gain just like Autism Speaks.

  • he probably just didn't see any of the traits in his kid. and now he's just screwing him up. glad he's not my farther. the myth thing is just because no one knew it was there

  • oh yeah,. THAT sounds probable. If I was a moron.

  • yeah of course only a moron would think that the ancient greeks didn't have phsycologists who could tell a person wasn't "normal" just by looking at them. thanks for the enlightenment

  • Maybe you should get your mercury levels checked out...

  • this guy's message is SO VITAL! Wikipedia has disinformants (paid) constantly watching and discrediting the mercury-autism connection in the Autism article, and trying to blame it on "genetics"!! What a disgusting time of disinformation we live in!!

  • yeah i know! people like you need to spread the wrong information in the world! other wise there would be no massed public paranoia!

  • so you would rather believe that it's some random "idiopathic gene" rather than an exogenous agent causing neurological damage? Becuase these "genes" like to express themselves RANDOMLY, huh? and they like to only be expressed during the past 25yrs? lolol so lets see here... you cling to idiopathy because you REFUSE to investigate cause and effect (or perhaps cause and effect is too lenthy of a process for you to mentally grasp?) Hey, brain damage is never funny and you shouldn't be proud of it!

  • Hello

    Can anyone advise me the name of the drops JB Handley is talking about in this interview??

    I would very much appreciate it!

    Thanks in advance

    Josephine

  • Thimerosal must be dangerous stuff, since Mr. Handley said "highly neurotoxic" twice in a row.

  • Repetition is a symptom of autism - we've all got a bit of thanks to Uncle Scam and his cash donors in the med industry, med industry, med industry

  • My mother listened to Freddy Mercury a lot when i was 2, could i have autism? and should i become Amish, i'm only Mennonite?

  • Could? Sure You are prototype of a Karner autist. You dont talk whit us, You only write Your comments, and in Your Youtube-channel is only one friend: You!

  • Karner autist? Do you mean Kanner autistic?

  • No your just a natural born jackass.

  • am i the only one that thought this was a funny joke against the vaccine theory?

  • the vaccine theory? what kind of retard perpetuates something as a fact, fighting valiently for the priviledge to remain ignorant by wielding the sword of THEORY. "Hi, can you inject foreign and dangerous agents that i'm not even aware of, into my bloodstream because you have a "good feeling" about it's efficacy? Ya thanks."

    Welcome to the age of mass produced, naive retards like 'goldentusk' who will take anything from anyone posing as an official or german nazi.*snicker*

  • i dont believe the vaccine theory and believe more in the autism gene. i just really thought it was quite a funny joke.

  • Wow! Isn't it great this stuff made it to mainstream media! The world really is changing at last for the better. The worse things get, the better they get!

  • Autism is simply in some children mercury cannot be excreated and they develop autism. Most children can excreate mercury and thus don't get autism. Basicly if your child had mercury poisoning [autism] then you need to eat coriander every day to get the mercury out. Coriander cures autism which is just mercury poisoning.

  • Even if they dont get autism, it doesnt mean there are no neurological effects. If they can reduce IQ level by a couple of points (on average) people wont notice it, or will attribute this phenomenon to television viewing or not reading, etc. They dont fool me though. Everyone is affected to a significant degree by the mercury in their bodies that they almost invariably acquire in high levels from vaccines, even if they excrete most of it.

  • yep, I agree, this is affecting all our brains, just some worse than others, even as it passes through you, it causes death

  • @dgontar Having you got ANY evidence that vaccines decrease IQ from scientific tests. If you are going to spout out your pseudoscience, at least come with some facts.

  • coriander huh, that's anew one,

  • The Homeland Security Bill (post 9/11) included a provision to protect big pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits by parents who believed their children's autism was caused by the thimerosol (mercury preservative) they used to put in infant vaccines. Read "Evidence of Harm" by David Kirby

  • I will definitely read that when I get home today. It is awesome that pharmaceuticals are protected by such a law. Thanks for sharing!

  • I don't know how I escaped being autistic, or with ADHD...

  • I will say it again, you cannot logically dismiss something until you know what the cause is.

    Only when we know the cause can we say mercury wasn't to blame.

    Mercury poison and Autistic traits are remarkably similar.

  • daza2j96 You contradict yourself there, until we KNOW what causes autism, we can't say what doesn't!

  • There is no cure for autism, that is a fact. So instead of "guessing" and trying to justify what causes it, I just accept the fact that my autistic son is charming, handsome, intelligent, verbal, and has a contagious smile. Instead of worrying what CAUSES it, I worry what the INTERVENTION is.

  • Once again... Instead of worrying what CAUSES it, I worry what the INTERVENTION is.

  • mercury causing autism is crap. NOBODY knows what causes it... it just IS. They say mercury, dairy products, blah blah blah. I just take my son the way he is, and I wouldn't have him any other way

  • I thik yoru full of it. YOU OBVIOUSLY never had to live with thsi problem. Have you ever had your books, furniture, house torn apart over something that you moved of your childs? You should live with a family with the most severe form of autism. I would like to challenge you to do so. You would want to escape in no time to go home. This post you made has angeried me as my son and daughter has the severe forms of autism. So, show some respect here.

  • Of course I live with it - every single day. I have bruises because he is regressing. All I was saying simply is - mercury causing it is not true. Dairy products does not cause it. Read what I said a little bit more carefully, I wasn't putting anybody down, I was saying MERCURY DOES NOT CAUSE IT. I take my SEVERELY autistic son the way he is, and I would not have him any other way! And those that keep saying, "I dread being around my child...." Well, shame on them.

  • Let me guess........ you are a member of the Flat Earth society (folks who believe the world is flat). By the way, they claim to have 30,000 members............

  • Let me guess........ you are a member of the Flat Earth society (folks who believe the world is flat). By the way, they claim to have 30,000 members............

  • I guess that pertains to me? What is the Flat Earth society (is that actually real??) and what does that have to do with AUTISM and mercury poisioning??? There seems no connection with the description of what it is....

  • ........is a few periods. Yes, the Flat Earth society is real check out their web site. You would probably like it. If mercury is not causing autism tell me exactly what is and why the U.S. has taken it out of the vaccines. Do you or your spouse work for the Merck pharmaceutical company? Last years sales fig. are $4.8 billion to $5.2 billion for vaccines alone. With this kind of revenue I am sure they would never do anything to hurt anyone. Not like Philip Morris Company.

  • beachbaycove said "Mercury poison and Autistic traits are remarkably similar." So we could say that the reason the U.S. government took mercury out of vaccines is to prevent mercury poisioning and/or try to prevent autism. It can be interpreted differently. The facts will come out, atleast it's a start! About time....

    Saying that Merck would never hurt anybody because of a revenue of $4.8 - $5.2 billion because they can't afford to lose clients - THAT was funny! lol

  • wrong... autism shows up at 2... the same time as the MMR vaccine.. its coicindence. This man on the news is nuts.. my family had aspergesr over 150 yrs. No mercury contact. no vaccines.. the reason so many cases now..we are being diangosed by the 10,000s at late ages.. no epidemic. we were here all along , you and we just did not know we existed :)

  • Asperger's is not autism.

  • in your opinion.

  • Asperger's is a type of autism spectrum disorder. Autism is also an ASD, but not the same as Asperger's. Two-thirds of ASDs are either Asperger's or PDDs. "Autism", the disorder described by Kanner, comprises about one-third of the spectrum.

  • And why are you telling me this?

  • Perspective?

  • it's part of the spectrum

  • I am an aspie and aspergers is in my family from my generation back.. none of us had MMR vaccines... and we have aspergers. Our family history of it goes to recorded to 1860.. Flat earth society = anti vaccine people. Its coincidence of age and MMR...

  • My son is on the spectrum. We are just scratching the surface here. I've come across a google vid: Mercury, Autism and the Global Vaccine Agenda. God Bless our Children - sniff...

  • Get over it and next time try to spell simple words correctly. If you at least would try something you will see it may make difference. Don't be so angry.

  • this guy is not a dr, therefor should not be speaking on a news show. this guy acts like he knows everything and it is very frustrating.

  • Perhaps an update is in order. After years of chelatiing his child, Mr. Handley has expanded his beliefs as to what causes autism. His current position is that all autism isn't just mercury poisoning. I suspect in a few more years, Mr. Handley will "discover" that autism is genetic, like autistic people have been telling him for years. Will he look back saddened that he has hurt autistic people with his panic?

  • Anyone who has every received "forced vacines" YOU MUST WATCH ON YOU TUBE "ALEX JONES on Vaccines"!!!!! YOU MUST !!!

  • J.B. Handley, thank you for confirming many aspects of our research regarding Autism. I am a writer/researcher parent of a child with Autism. Thimerosol preservative in flu shot (administered at same time as MMR) may have hindered expulsion of toxins in MMR vaccine in our son.

    Parents: Please refuse non-mandatory flu shot, it still contains mercury.

    Nevertheless, we remain very positive about recovering our son from Autism.

  • Wow, great job! You have figured out the cause of autism, perhaps you should let the world know. That way we can all prevent our children from getting autism in the future. Of course, Ethan was showing signs of autism at 8 months old... DANG, I wish I would have known about the vaccine.......

  • It appears he is trying to tell world. This is a clip from NBC news.....correct?

  • Ode To Heraldablog - The MAN chimes in on people who are so naive as to want disclosure and accountability by big pharm. Don't question the MAN - don't be foolish, THE MAN will take care of you. Fact's? There's Heraldblog's, and then there's Science. Tell us, big brother, about how ludicrous "Global Warming" is......

  • Of course the Amish have autism. They also vaccinate. Dan Olmsted is not a credible researcher. He's a UPI reporter with an agenda.

  • You know you're a curbie parent if...

    ...you send people messages like this:

    "WildBillVT74: You know your workin for "them" when all you do is go on youtube and insult autistic parents. Be thankful the US hasn't invaded your country, rounded up your people like slaves and poisoned YOUR children!

  • You know you're one-dimensional and incapable of thinking outside the box if you insist on dividing people into inflexible unrealistically stereotypical groups such as "curebie". You know you're a thinking individual if such words make you cringe whether you're interested in biomed or not.

  • You know you're a curbie parent if...

    ...you buy gluten-free dog food for your pet, because you think he doesn't look you in the eye enough.

    ...you have often felt socially awkward, have obsessive interests, and a history of autism in your family, but you still haven't put two and two together..

    ...your child looks at you for a short while after eating tacos, which causes you to feed them nothing but tacos for a month.

  • You know you're a curbie parent if...

    Your child gets a vaccination, within minutes falls unconscious, is rushed to the ER, nearly dies. Then now longer knows how to speak, maintain eye contact, or even get out of bed. Your doctors say the child will die soon and make arrangements. Then you chelate, and the child makes an 85% recovery. WOW! COOL! A CURBIE!

  • You know you're a curbie parent if...

    You believe that falling unconscious and nearly dying is in any way related to autism.

  • You know you're a curbie parent if...

    ...you've ever nodded in agreement when someone talks about wanting to drive their autistic child off a cliff, and see no problem with them saying this in front of their child.

    ...you display posters, t-shirts and ribbons implying that your child has "a piece missing", and don't see a problem with this.

    ...you love a fictional non-autistic child similar to yours, but you do not love your child.

  • My son just turned two and diagnosed with autism in July. He lost his speech at 18 months and went downhill from there. Could there have been mercury in his shots? When was mercury taken out?

  • Could be mercury, could be that there is a subset of the population that has a weakened immune system, and we are shooting three live viruses at a time into infants. There should be a immune system test for all children.

  • Autism sucks!!!!!

    My nephew, whose 3, is autistic. My brother and his wife moved to NYC so that he could see this special therapist. I baby sat him all the time, so I really miss him. Eventhough he's super-hyper and loud...I really miss him.

  • my immune system broke down due to the overload of toxins. but i had 4 hours of saunas per day for 6 weeks, and lowered my overload.another story is that of my old dentist who retired due to getting parkinsons disease at 35. my neighbough who had many mercury fillings and had an autistic son.

    FACT mercury goes directly to your brain. drug companies make money out of all the illnesses caused my mercury.

  • Here's another fact: the symptoms of mercury poisoning are not the same as the symptoms of autism.

  • my immune system broke down due to the overload of toxins. but i had 4 hours of saunas per day for 6 weeks, and lowered my overload.another story is that of my old dentist who retired due to getting parkinsons disease at 35. my neighbough who had many mercury fillings and had an autistic son.

    FACT mercury goes directly to your brain. drug companies make money out of all the illnesses caused my mercury.

    in scotland your mercury fillings have to be removed before cremation

  • Mercury harms not just nerve cells, but also the immune system. When a child gets the live MMR he/she cannot process this completely. So some of it remains in their system. Mercury is the puzzle piece that fits the best. The epidemiolgical studies that claim to have found no evidence of a link, were designed to NOT find a link.

  • How did he know his kid had mercury poisoning? Did he get a blood test? My dd never had a vaccine with themarisol (sp?). She was just tested for mercury last week and she doesn't have it. Yet she's autistic. Hmmm. Some kids outgrow autism on their own. It does happen, it's happening with my dd. No chelation done.

  • If they tested for mercury in her blood or in her hair or urine, a negative test does not mean anything. The problem is that some people have a problem excreting mercury. It stays in the tissues. So it does not show up in blood/urine/hair testing until something is done to help remove it. See Dr. Boyd Haley's interview.

  • Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  • AUTISTICS ARE NOT RETARDED!!!!!

    Part of the problem with autism is that people think that their stupid, and wow, they must be stupid because of mercury poisoning!!!

    I don't know about Bill Gates, but many people figure that Albert Einstein was autistic due to his behaviour. By the way, he was born and raised outside the states.

    I live in Canada, a country with more trustworthy drug testing than the FDA, and I got a severely autistic brother. Can't be mercury.

  • So there's no mercury in fish, amalgam fillings, broken thermometers, fluorescent lightbulbs, and from coal fired power plants? Until someone can prove what actually causes autism, mercury could be one of the causes.

  • Think about this: in a Denmark study when children were given vaccines without mercury, the number of new autistic diagnoses did NOT decrease, as was expected.

  • Denmark changed the method of diagnosing children with autism in the middle of that study. So the only possible outcome was that there would be an increase. The study is meaningless except that it shows we are not dealing with an honest medical establishment.

  • That's incorrect(where are you getting you info? Did you actually read the Hviid study?). And there's still the Andrews study, the Verstraeten study, the Heron study, the Madsen study, the Thompson study...

  • Mercury goes into the brain like lead. Everyone is outraged when children are exposed to lead. When is everyone going to do something about mercury? It is not safe.

  • Because lead levels can be detected in blood, and is proven in scientific, peer-reviewed studies that LEAD causes BRAIN DAMAGE!

    Mercury causing autism IS Not!

  • And how many thousands of years did it take them to come to that conclusion? Asbestos used to be safe too. And there was no such thing as global warming until last year. It took over 50 years to persuade doctors to wash their hands, but maybe they're still waiting for proof, as more people die in hospitals each year than from any other disease.

  • Brilliant, Bert. Just brilliant. With reasoning skills like that, you should work for the Bush White House.

  • This debate will always be discussed, however this so called mercury is a joke cause most of the successful people have autism, such as bill gates, and einstein.

    and if you look at the correct research Autism has to do with the nervous system and the correct diet of enough potassium,b vitamins, and reduction of anxiety. how do i know this? cause I have aspergers and 27 and over exceled in school and even ran my own internet businesses and infact successful as it is.

  • How do you know that Bill Gates and Albert Einstein had autism?

  • with all due respect belevit, my brothers were typical autistics that were totally shut off from the world. and we went through just as much as every other family with autistic children. and just so you know, my brothers used there autism as an inhibitor for success instead of a hindrance . my oldest brother is a professional musician, another works as a sound technician at seaworld and my younger brother is joining the navy and is engaged to his high school sweet heart.

  • there is no such thing as a genetic epidemic, an epidemic MUST be something INTRODUCED to create it. By the way, the new christian liberator, bush, just vetoed the ban on themersol in vaccinations. The Bigger epidemic in this country is collective complacency. "yea, our children are being poisioned, our government has been taken over, but what can ya do? What's on FOX News? Are we still safe from TERRORISTS?" X 4 Revolution, or Submission.

  • why would you do that to try an cure autism? and how do you know that it actually works? I have 3 older brothers and they all have autism it was a struggle to get them diagnosed then and there probably wasnt any "treatment" for it then either, the best thing my parents could do for them was let them live in the real world. my oldest my brothers are now 25,23,and 21 and if you met them out on the street you would never guess that they were autistic.

  • My 9yr old son is autistic. Are there any chances of recovery through chelation in an older age?

  • Some chelation advocates claim that autism might be caused or aggravated by heavy metal poisoning and might be ameliorated by chelation therapy, but there is no scientific evidence to support this hypothesis.

  • There is plenty of scientific evidence that mercury is a neurotoxin.

    There is ZERO evidence showing that it is safe.

  • And there is ZERO scientific evidence that it directly causes or contributes to autism.

  • MOST of the people believe everything a told them and THIS IS WRONG. MOST of the medical practitioners such as, Nurses, Doctor, Psychiatric, etc are trained to treat patients with drugs. Behind all the medical business lay the Pharmaceutical Company who manipulates the education of the educators, the news, and more without caring for others but their own interest.

    I think J.B. Handley has his point. Any interested parent might listen carefully what he says.

  • My son has Aspergers Autism, he has a very high IQ his acedemic skills are amazeing,however the simple things have to be taught over and over and over ,I didn't notice anything wrong until he got his shots then he stopped talking, he began obsessing over letters and numbers and tantruming, he's 6 now with the verbal skills of a 4 yr old however his IQ is between 130 and 160. Those shots are a bad thing were still paying the price, everyday is a struggle for my little one, but he's comeing along

  • Bullshit there are good people out there that dont take the crap fed to them from research that more than likely are back by big pharm the fact is that mercury is a POISON period and not for human consumption so if your so confident about it why dont you take a dose equivelent to your body weight as those given to our young childern there is a bet on the net for doctors for $50.000 to take a dose equivelent to there weight No takers wonder why

  • autism is, in most cases, mercury poisoning. end of story.

  • "story" that's a word for it. similar to fabrication.

  • and what proof do you have??  Handley, the Geier's?

  • How about Dr. Boyd Haley? He is not an MD but a chemist who worked with Gulf war syndrome before switching to investigating autism. Watch some of his interviews then comment so you don't sound so foolish.

    Also, you have it backwards. The requirement should be that someone shows evidence that mercury (in any form) is safe, BEFORE it is injected into us.

  • Haley--I refuse to call that quack "Doctor"--has made it clear in his public statements that he doesn't understand the difference between safe daily dose over a lifetime and dosage received on a single day. He talks about ethylmercury and methylmercury as though they have identical properties. You should avoid quoting Haley so you don't sound foolish.

  • I don't know why you choose to be rude, i'll attempt to avoid stooping to your level. Not a word of what you said dealt with the facts. All you've done is hurl personal insults. If that's the best form of arguement you can muster, you prove my point better than yours. Do some research and find out where the term " Quack" originated. Heres a hint. Quicksilver aka mercury.

  • Not one actual expert who works with the autistic backs up what you are saying. They do not posit a ridiculous statement and say "end of story", they do actual research and talk to people on the spectrum. And their conclusions never match those of curebies.

  • It seems that Chelation can be painful and have dangerous side effects. Handley failed to mention this. This is alesson for me to do even more research before I post in the future.

  • megamichaels  It seems that Chelation can be painful and have dangerous side effects.

    Chelation has been the mainstream medical treatment for heavy metal poisoning for over 60 years. the only debate between these people and mainstream medicine is the way they determine toxicity not how they treat it.

  • It doesn't hurt to at least give the MMR vaccines seperately. I do not believe that removal of Mercury from a person with Autism will cure them (I have never seen or read any evidence to show this) but if Chelation decreases the person with Autisms behavioural, social and or communication disorders then I can see no harm in using it as an assistive therapy.

  • Handley does not suggest that his son has been "CURED" of Autism. Handley states that after 5 mths of therapy that his son had learnt to count to 10. This is not uncommon in a 5 month period of a childs development even if they have Autism. Genetic and nuerobiological causes have the strongest, most understandable links to Autism. I do not believe mercury causes Autism (there has not been any sufficient data to support this theory)but perhaps the MMR vacines and DPT vaccines may trigger Autism?

  • Whether or not it's Thimerosal or a genetic susceptibility to environmental toxins, one thing is clear. You can treat the symptoms of Autism all you want, but until the cause is eliminated the effects will be the same. I have enjoyed this little debate Heraldblog.:)

  • I don't need a "degree" to be resourceful. After reading the book "Natural Cures THEY don't want you to know about" Take a look at that book sometime #1 NY times best seller. Have a look at "World without Cancer" video here on youtube."Evidence of Harm" by David Kirby. The FDA wants everyone to think only drugs and surgery can cure disease..hmm I guess that's why the cure for Scurvy(that desimated navy fleets in the past) was simply Vitamin C.

  • Isn't the book "Natural Cures" that crappy book by Kevin Trudeau?

  • It is! The list of crimes he's been convicted for (larceny, pyramid schemes, lying to stockholders, false/misleading claims) is as long as your arm.

  • Ask family memmbers of people who died from the "safe and effective" drug Vioxx. I personally was prescribed Bextra, a drug for inflammation(which I never took) 2 weeks later they pulled it off the market for good, because it was causing heart attacks

  • I read that China didn't have a single case of Autism Until they started importing US vaccines with thimerosal, explain that??Furthermore I think the American people need to wake up from there everyday selfishness and stand up to our so called "leadership" before they screw us over even more!

  • That's utter nonsense. China has always had autism.

  • Simple. You read wrong.

  • As of 2006 thimerosal was still bieng injected into kids. A decision was made to pull all thimerosal from vaccines. But the manufactors also decided that it was better to not any go to waste. So yes new vaccines are thimerosal free. But the damage has been done. Question: If these vaccines caused no harm, then why did president Bush pardon the vaccine manufactors from any past,present, or future action. After all we do have a supreme court.

  • Bush never pardoned vax makers. You're thinking of a rider placed in the Homeland Security bill that was later revoked. Get your facts straight.

  • the flu vaccine still has thimerisal and others still have what they call trace amounts.

  • Which ones?

    Proof Please!

  • If these people have cured their child, and we have no reason to believe they are lying, then that is good. Their child has a chance at a normal, happy life, good for them!

  • The parents don't have to be lying to be wrong. They can also be biased observers.

  • So if a parent has an autistic child but uses ABA, say, rather than biomed, and sees dramatic improvements, *that* parent *isn't* a biased observer?

    Just the biomed folks, eh? Interesting. What was all that stuff about getting a degree again?

  • We're all biased observers. That's why the scientific method, and peer review, are so important.

    Autism is a developmental disorder, and too many parents forget that, and attribute improvements to whatever quack treatment they just tried. Given enough time, and no control group, tap water can look like it cures autism.

  • Peer review in the scientific community is nothing to wait around for in order to do our thinking for us. Nobody's saying this or that biomed method is *proven* to produce a certain effect each time (any more than ABA is)...but closing one's eyes until a scientist gives something a thumb's-up discounts the experiences and intelligence of masses of non-scientists the world over. Hope that made sense...I'm not sure I'm communicating what I want to but I gave it a shot.

  • The irony doesn't escape me. You magically bestow upon yourself with the education and experience to navigate highly technical areas of applied science, but you're nor sure if you're making any sense. I can't think of a better way to prove my point.

    The opposite of peer review is herd mentality. Rather than rely on the self-correcting mechanism of science, you turn to democratic populism, where truth is determined by who yells the loudest. It doesn't work that way. Remember Galileo?

  • Oh my freaking God...I think you need a hobby. No, the opposite of herd mentality is NOT peer review. Peer review is self-contained and the unwashed herd comes slavering after, willing to believe because Them Smart Guys done said so. How silly...I think my work here is done.

  • Quick, turn off the computer before you learn anything new!

  • it's not mercury! Liquid metal does not cause genetic disorders! It's that the criteria for autism has widened since 1994.

  • oh so you think putting liquid metal in a person, especially a child whose brain is still in development is SMART. Trouble is the government treats people like guinea pigs and just wanted to sell more vials of vaccines. I think a Civil War is in order for this shit.

  • I'm not supporting it, but I don't think I have autism just because of mercury. I mean I doubt that I got injected with mercury. And yes, our goverment is shit too.

  • Thimerosal is not a synonym for mercury. Think about it, Billy. Salt has chlorine. Toothpast has flourine. Does that mean we are poisoning ourselves whenever we eat french fries or brush our teeth? Get a grip. Or better yet, get a degree.