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arnoldgore

NBCs Today Show Trivializes autism effects-Call Station

 

Subj: FW: POLITICAL ACTION ALERT - re: The Today Show and Newsweek Article

9/1/2003 11:39:09 AM Eastern Standard Time

sandym

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PASS THIS ON!

 

From Bobbie, Kelly and Teri of Action For Angls:

 

Hello to All:

 

This morning on The Today Show there was an interview with the Newsweek

author, Geoff Cowley, who currently has published the cover story article

that trivializes / insults the plight and condition of vaccine-injured /

autism spectrum children. Vaccines, in fact, are never even mentioned.

However, even if you, personally, haven't explored that road yet, the

article insults the tens-of-thousands of children on the autism spectrum.

This article makes them out to be: quirky; quaint; with just a personality

variant; with minimal challenges; with an imbalance of empathizing vs.

systemitizing skills; and, just extremely male. They even try to downplay

the fact that there is a disorder operating here. Key to the article is a

Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, a psychologist from Cambridge, who has a book out

entitled The Essential Difference. His thesis is that autism is an

imbalance between two kinds of intelligence: that with which to understand

people and that with which to understand things. This article illuminates

that our quirky, quaint kids have a shot at being engineers with a 700 score

on the math SAT's. It doesn't emphasize severe learning disabilities. It

doesn't mention severe pain. It doesn't mention severe speech and attention

deficits and dangerous lack of self-help skills. It doesn't mention

multiple physiological system shutdowns. It doesn't mention physiological /

neurological / immunological destruction and disruptions - and domino

effects. It doesn't mention the pain, frustration, fear, sensory terror and

behaviors caused by these. The Today Show didn't mention ANY RESEARCH

WHATSOEVER. We cannot let the American public and American parents be

sidetracked from the real issues and REAL independent, unbiased RESEARCH, by

some guy's theory that deludes, deflects, and distracts to the detriment of

children.

 

Please call in your comments to the Today Show at (212) 664-4249, and press

" 4 " for the comment line. Please have every member of your family do so, as

well. Please distribute this request to your lists. Thank you.

 

Bobbie, Kelly, Teri

Action For Angels

 

Sandy Mintz

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http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/past_scandals.htm

 

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paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)

 

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