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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 01:44 AM
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Anyone catch the C-span program with Dan Olmsted on Autism and Vaccines?
Edited on Tue Jun-19-07 01:56 AM by BeHereNow
http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&ArchiveDays=100

Fifth on the roster of this archive page.

I saw a repeat broadcast this morning.
A must see for anyone interested in the vaccine connection.

C-Span Program Description:
Discusses a current case before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims
filed by parents who believe that vaccines have caused autism
in their children.
He is also the author of "The Age of Autism" feature for the news service.
6/18/2007: WASHINGTON, DC:

Call-in segment is worth the price of admission alone.
Asperger mom here, whose pediatrician admitted that
pertussis was the cause of the vaccine reaction in my
kid twenty years ago- so naysayers, don't even try to go there.

BHN
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 03:02 AM
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1. No, but I did here his radio program from last week. Lots of angry parents called in...
...so, if you are planing to go to be in the next few hours, you might want to wait until the morning to listen to it: <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11070884>

Best of luck to all you activist on this issue, I understand your frustration. I only figured out a few years ago that my Learning Disability that began to affect my school work in about the 2nd or 3rd Grade (or at least that's when I started getting tested practically every year) might not have been the result of a fall I took at 18 months, as the doctors told me and my parents.

About 2 years ago I stumbled upon an under reported story, from my home town in Indiana, that the house I lived in (and the drainage ditch I frequently played in) from 1968 to 1973, was less that a mile from a Toxic Waste Dump that was shut down in 1976 and eventually ended up on the EPA Super Fund Clean-up site list about 1981. The drainage ditch I frequently played in was the drainage ditch for that Toxic Waste dump too.

But it was only one of THREE (3!) EPA Super Fund Clean-up sites in my old home town of 43,000 people, the other one that effected me (but probably not quite as strongly) was the CITY WATER WELL FIELD that supplied 70% of the drinking water in my town! I drank that from 1973 to 1983 and they claim it was "cleaned up" by 1993, but that's debatable. None of this was reported in the local media.

But getting back to the other house near the Toxic Waste Dump (at which we drank private Well Water), It was after finding out about the near by Superfund site that a lot of things began to make sense.

Like:

1) My Learning Disability

2) My Mom, at age 42 needing a total Hysterectomy due to the Cancer spreading though out her reproductive system.

and

3) Our Cats all dying very young due to stomach tumors. The first one we got at that house died in less than 5 years and the other 2, who only lived at that house for about 2 years both died at about ages 10 to 12 years. Most Cats, these days live to between 14 and 20 years.

Now, maybe none of this is related to un-knowingly drinking contaminated water, but maybe it is. Either way, proving it now would be very difficult. Thankfully, at age 34 I finally found an effective treatment after finally being diagnosed as ADD, and if I could find a new job, I'm sure I would do well in it.

So again,

Good Luck. :pals:
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 04:14 AM
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3. Well, my ADD is inherited from my daddy.
We grew up in totally different places with the same damn problem.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 03:38 AM
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2. Correlation is not causation
Say it over until understand it.

Correlation is not causation
Correlation is not causation
Correlation is not causation
Correlation is not causation
Correlation is not causation
Correlation is not causation
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 01:11 PM
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4. The verdict is still out on that actually.
Edited on Tue Jun-19-07 01:11 PM by BeHereNow
I am among thousands of parents who
are greatly pleased to see the issue finally
being addressed, publicly by parents and by medical professionals-
do you happen to be either?
BHN
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