Re: Dr. Stoller could use some comment help

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Voted and added a comment. Just three more votes to go.

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> The letter has run behind again by about 4 votes right now and

there is a

> commentor in attack mode. -

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> Here's his second comment

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> No doctor, shame on you for playing the poor victim card when

anyone raises

> legitimate questions about your " alternative " approach to treating

autism.

> When did the American Board of Medical Specialties start listing a

board

> which would recognize Board Certification in Hyperbaric Medicine?

The

> American College of Hyperbaric Medicine deals with wound care. Is

autism a

> wound? Do you actually treat wounds?

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> Where is the evidence that HBOT is effective for kids with autism?

What is

> the " increasing scientific evidence " that links mercury to autism?

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> It is not enough to merely " believe " that vaccines cause autism -

if you

> want to be taken seriously outside the comments on a Change.org

post, you

> also need data. So far, study after study has found no association

between

> vaccines and autism. Wakefield's associate, Professor O'Leary will

> reportedly soon retract his 2002 study that purported to replicate

> Wakefield's disastrous 1998 study that led to a measles outbreak in

the UK.

> If O'Leary does the right thing, he will at last be in good

company - at

> least 23 aquality studies have found no support for Wakefield's

hypothesis.

> As for thimerosal and autism - what is the mechanism? Why are the

symptoms

> of autism so different than the symptoms of mercury poisoning? Why

haven't

> diagnoses fallen among today's 3 to 5 year olds, given that TCVs

have been

> absent from the pediatric schedule since 2002?

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> You have called autism " the greatest neuroimmune disorder in the

history of

> the human race. " Do you have any credible evidence for that claim?

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> Or is it just something you believe?

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> http://www.change.org/ideas/view/bodies_in_rebellion

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