Fwd: FW: Newsweek--A darn shame

[Guest guest]

I see this as just an ongoing process and effort to, almost always, shift the

blame from the real cause and the people who are protected from that blame.

 

In allopathic medicine, whatever goes wrong, whether with surgury, radiation,

problems caused by drugs, it is the usual course to shift the blame on to the

patient.

 

Your genetic type..., we just don't know all there is to know yet, maybe someday

science..., You need this, do you want to die?...How are you going to get well,

if you don't take your medicine? etc. etc.

 

And when they have burned, slashed, and poisoned all they could and the final

outcome is terminal in many times brought about by their efforts, the almost

always response is " Well, we did all we could " . implying that the enemy won in

the fight but he fought noblely in trying to " save " the patient..

 

This even if the patient was " doctored " to death, which is very common..

 

F.

 

Sandy Mintz <sandym wrote:

Tue, 02 Sep 2003 05:42:08 -0800

Sandy Mintz

FW: Newsweek--A darn shame

" ParentsofKidsAdultswithAutism (AT) groups (DOT) msn. com "

 

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" Autism_and_Vaccinations (AT) (DOT) Com "

, immunizations ,

Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children

 

 

 

From Jeff Sell via Ray Gallup:

 

Dear Mr. Cowley:

I cannot describe the gut-wrenching frustration that I felt when I

finally sat down and read the much anticipated Newsweek autism issue on line

tonight. I don't believe that I have ever read a more offensive statement

to parents of regressive autistic spectrum children, as well as myself, as

the following line of unadulterated nonsense that follows:

" If Baron-Cohen is right, autism is not just a disease in need

of a cure. It's a mental style that people can learn to accommodate.

Sometimes it's even a gift. "

A gift? Surely this was a sick joke or a typographical error, I

thought.

While I do feel that my 9 year-old autistic twins, Ben and Joe are gifts

from God; there autism was assuredly not. The chronic " gut " issues, immune

abnormalities, seizures, rashes, self-injurious behaviors and inability to

communicate (or even speak a single word in 9 years of life in Ben's case)

is surely not a " mental style " that my sons chose. It is indeed a disease

very much in need of a cure.

Years ago, Bruno Bettleheim blamed mothers for autism; it certainly

appears that Mr. Baron-Cohen now blames the children, and Newsweek is

promoting this unfounded view. That is a shame.

Peacefully,

Jeff Sell

Autism Society of America - 1st Vice Chair

Chairman - ASA Government Relations Committee

www.autism-society.org

JZSell

www.JZSLAW.com

832-731-3145 (cell)

 

Sandy Mintz

http://www.vaccinationnews.com

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

 

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paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)

 

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