| Ilena Rose 2005-07-26, 8:51 am |
| Mark S Probert ... disbarred New York attorney ... continues to attempt
to discredit Dr Haley and his position on this topic. Dr. Haley very
clearly expressed himself ... altho Probert wants to continue his lies.
Did Probert "apologize" to his former legal clients who had to go to
the trouble to complain to the NY Bar about Probert's action that lead
to his disbarrment?
Probert is part of the very dubious and discredited 'ratbags'
quackwatch/healthfraud Propaganda team ... who uses titles on postings
to continue to give false information to Dr. Haley's position.
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/SandraProbert.htm
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neurodiversity.com
Statement in response to Petition to Defend the Dignity of Autistic
Citizens
by Boyd E. Haley
11 October 2004
To Whom It May Concern:
RE: The statement from the www.neurodiversity.com website that "We
abhor Dr. Haley's likening of autistic children to 'Mad Cows'"
First, I have never compared or likened autistic children to Mad Cows,
nor have I ever said a derogatory thing about any autistic person or
group. Autistics and families of autistics have my unwavering support
and sympathy. If someone has construed that I did so then they are
misinformed. I would immediately lean over backwards to apologize if I
did so. However, what I did point out was that using the term "Mad Cow"
garnered national attention to the problem of finding a single
afflicted cow. (It should be noted that "mad cows" suffer from chronic
wasting disease, do not eat or drink even when the resource is in front
of them. They are remarkably unaware of their surroundings, they do not
make aggressive action towards anything. Not at all like rabid or mad
dogs.) The point I was making is that our US government and our press
media was highly focused on an event (the single mad cow, no human
injury caused) while ignoring the plight of thousands of autistic
children and their parents. Myself, and no one I know of has ever
likened autistics to mad cows and the statement on the neurodiversity
website is inaccurate. The issue discussed at the meeting where I
presented was the high level of attention given to one "mad cow" while
our country's responsible government/medical agencies denies and
ignores the autism epidemic and uses descriptions of illnesses that do
not lend to the elimination of these diseases. Remember, it was a group
of parents of autistic children, not the government agencies, that
brought the autism epidemic to light. Hopefully, those who take issue
with my presentation regarding Mad Cow comments will obtain the tape of
my talk and listen to it themselves. The entire talk was designed to
obtain support of a large physician group to recognize and work for the
plight of families of children with autistic spectrum disorders.
I know the "statistical trick" used by some epidemiologists of dividing
all of the autistic spectrum disorders into many different "medical
definitions" such as autism, ADHD, PDD, Aspergers, speech disorder,
etc. In my opinion, this trick of dividing the thimerosal
(ethylmercury) caused illnesses into several groups can be used to keep
the total number of any single group from reaching a high level of
statistical significance, allowing manipulation of the data to show
little effect of thimerosal from vaccines. Note that most of these
illnesses have a higher boy to girl ratio like autism, and have shown a
dramatic increase that correlates with the advent of the mandated
vaccine program that increased infant exposures to thimerosal like
autism. That is, they appear to have the same causality with different
resulting clinical effects or levels of neurological damage. It will
also be much more difficult for all children with autism spectrum
disorders to gain compensation if they are divided into different
medical categories. I am trying to eliminate use of this statistical
trick by calling attention to it, and placing all of those affected by
thimerosal toxicity under one general causation described by one name.
The nature of the event that lead to the use of the term "Mercury
Afflicted Disease of Children (M.A.D. Child Disease) was as follows. I
was listening to the speaker directly before me at the Doctor's for
Disaster Preparedness Conference. There were few, if any, parents of
autistic children present. The prior speaker, a veterinarian, spoke
about what efforts and expense the US government put into the finding
of one "Mad Cow" in the state of Washington. I found his talk extremely
interesting. I noticed also that the rest of the audience, mostly
physicians, where paying rapt attention - over one sick cow, but
admittedly a cow that had the capacity to do a lot of human and
economical damage. I also remembered the number of times I heard about
the "Mad Cow" problem on national TV - it was on nightly and yet,
during the past few years any mention of the autisim epidemic seemed
exceedingly rare, and this epidemic represented severe damage to many
thousands of afflicted children and their families. What is wrong with
our press and medical community that causes them to ignore the autism
spectrum disorder epidemic?
Therefore, when I was to speak I wanted to make a point. Calling a cow
a "Mad Cow" got immense national press attention and government funding
due to the image produced by the name, while mercury damaged children
and their parents have to fight to get any press coverage. Stating that
they had found a cow suffering from 'chronic wasting disease' would not
have attracted such media attention. I was also aware that the
responsible government agencies and committees for national health
problems, e.g. the FDA, IOM, CDC etc, initially fought even the
recognition that an epidemic was occurring. Now they have to admit one
exists but are trying to label it a "genetic disease", due to
neurodiversity perhaps. Sounds politically correct, but is misleading
and likely prevents many afflicted autistic children from receiving
medical treatment that may help restore some quality to their lives. As
much as any parent would not like the Mercury Afflicted Disease of
children to be used you can bet the CDC and FDA would like it even
less.
I did my best to stir up this audience of physicians with regards to
the autism issue, hoping that it would lead some of them to convince
the government and press media into recognition of the autism spectrum
disorder problem and to support the bills to ban thimerosal in vaccines
as was being presented to Congress. I pointed out the division of
autism spectrum disorders and stated that if we combined and labeled
these neurological diseases accurately based on causality then Mercury
Afflicted Disease of children (M.A.D. Child Disease) would likely
garner more national attention of this epidemiological disaster. It is
still my opinion that this is better than staying quite, governed by a
perceived political correctness, and allowing the CDC and others
divide, what is in my opinion, a set of thimerosal/vaccine induced
illnesses into many subgroups in an attempt to hide the true cause.
When the protection of American children's health and safety, and the
pursuit of happiness by families are at stake, then I am one who will
throw rocks if necessary to win and insure this protection.
I also recognize that saying someone has an autistic or ADHD child does
not evoke much sympathy or understanding from those unaware or
unaffected by the autism epidemic. My approach to shock the physicians
by pointing out the affect of a NAME given to a disease worked as many
of these physicians spoke to me about this issue and many, including
Dr. Donald Miller, has taken on a role to bring this issue to public
recognition. Dr. Miller wrote his article accurately and did so to be
helpful to the autistic children and should not be held accountable for
the MAD Child reference. I am the responsible person for this and if
anyone was offended it was not my intention.
I pointed out in my speech that since the responsible government
agencies did not recognize the autism spectrum disorder epidemic, nor
the press, then many parents of autistic children were under the
impression that it was a "non-treatable genetic disease" and not a
"treatable toxicity" problem that could also potentially be eliminated
(like Acrodynia or Pink disease).
I knew before my talk that many physicians were successfully treating
autistic children. For example, the last DAN (Defeat Autism Now)
Conference had as its mantra "Autism, A Treatable Disease" and this was
based on the reports of many DAN physicians that treating autistic
children for mercury toxicity and the known biological effects of
mercury toxicity resulted in remarkable reversal of this disease in
many children. These developed treatments were done (1) without any
support from our government, including the National Institutes of
Health and (2) were done in defiance of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
recommendation that thimerosal exposure not be considered a possible
cause of autism and that all research, clinical or biological,
regarding the thimerosal-autism hypothesis be stopped. In my opinion,
this represents repugnant policy since neither the IOM nor the CDC
could provide any other reasonable hypothesis for the autism epidemic.
The IOM totally discounted all of the research supporting the
thimerosal-autism hypothesis and only considered epidemiological
studies, mostly from foreign countries without our high autism rate, to
come to their conclusions. This is highly symptomatic of an
orchestrated bureaucratic cover up that results in further damage to
our children and our nation.
Finally, I know that parents of autistic-spectrum disorder children
would not like for their children to be called MAD. However, since
this, in my opinion, correctly describes the causal route as Mercury
Afflicted Disease of children, (autism spectrum disorders). I also know
that the bureaucrats at the IOM, FDA and CDC also are even more
disturbed by the MAD Child disease moniker as it directly calls
attention to the nature of the damage their agencies inflicted on
families of autistic children which, if they had been doing their jobs,
would not have happened and would not have continued after being
recognized. Instead, certain bureaucrats in these agencies worked hard
to cover up this "government agency induced disease".
I have been fighting the issue of iatrogenic mercury toxicity delivered
by dentists and physicians for many years and will continue to do so.
The USA is worth it. Calling me a MAD Scientist would rank among the
kindest things that I have been called by the supporters of dental
amalgams and thimerosal in vaccines. So I understand how those who have
not viewed my talk could be offended by the out of context and
inaccurate representations of what I have been given credit for saying.
I apologize to these individuals, but encourage them to review my
entire talk so they will understand there was never any likening of
autistic children to mad cows.
Boyd E. Haley
Professor and Chair
Department of Chemistry
University of Kentucky
October 11, 2004
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