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jakesmom1 |
YOUR WI-FI ROUTER MAY CAUSE AUTISM |
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cuckooTom |
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What is a "Wi-Fi-Router"?
"I never said I hate the lying little fudgeweasel" ~ Supertestudo
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princesspeach |
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Heck, who knows? For every study that says one thing, there's another study that says the opposite. All I know for sure is that the autism epidemic is NOT
caused by "better awareness" and "broadened diagnostic criteria". And that there's no *single* smoking gun.
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A day without sunshine is like night. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
Kitsch In Sink. |
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Nevanna |
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If your wireless router could do it, so could cell phones, microwaves, and cordless landline phones. They all work similarly.
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Omega40 |
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Quoting "ravenmagic" in the comments section:
================================== Here's the facts on Autism. AUTISM IS GENETIC. The Autism Genome Project, involving 137 medical research scientists, 50 research centers and 9 countries studying 1,600 FAMILIES where at least one child had autism published their exhaustive research paper in February of 2007 in which it stated that without a doubt, AUTISM IS GENETIC. You can't "get" autism any more than you can "get" blond hair or brown eyes or size 11 feet when you already have brown hair, blue eyes and size 15 feet. You don't catch autism. You don't contract autism. Autism is not a progressively degenerative disease. No autistic has ever died from autism. Autism does not worsen over the years. This claim that the "WiFi router in your office can trap certain metals within brain cells and increase the chances your kids will develop autism" only goes to show that some research is not worth the paper it is printed on. It is completely false. No one needs to worry about WiFi routers or vaccinations or anything else 'causing' autism. =========================================== |
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princesspeach |
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You don't contract autism. Autism is not a progressively degenerative disease.Wrong and Wrong. That is not what the data says. As the parent of an autistic child, the daughter of a physician/psychiatrist, the sister-in-law of a pediatric neuropsychiatrist, I am very knowledgeable about this subject. The Autism Genome Project was strictly a DNA study. NOT A SINGLE AUTISTIC CHILD WAS EXAMINED BY A PHYSICIAN. NOT ONE. Here is what the study actually says: More than 130 researchers from 50 institutions in eight countries made scans of DNA from 8,000 people in 1,600 families. From all that data, scientists uncovered two new mutations possibly linked to an increased risk of susceptibility to autism (italics/enhancement mine). The key words here are risk and susceptibility. The study does NOT say is that autism is not a disease, or that vaccines or anything else do anything one way or the other, and most importantly, it does NOT say that children with this gene mutation are inextricably destined to be autistic. I will say this until I turn blue: Autistic children invariably have inflammation in their brain and gut, painful, chronic diarrhea, leaky gut syndrome, massive systemic yeast infections, multiple food and environmental allergies, viral syndromes, and myriad other autoimmune problems. How is this not a "disease"? The tendency toward autoimmune disease runs in families -- THAT is the genetic component. A look at the medical history of the family of an autistic child will reveal case after case of close relatives with lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, MS, and other autoimmune disorders. A look at the laboratory profile of individual autistic children will invariably show nutrient deficiencies (due to the inability of the gut to absorb them), elevated viral titers, elevated candida titers, severely depleted or severely elevated T-cell counts, and myraid other abnormalities. The Autism Genome Project did not address any of that; it wasn't intended to. I can show you hundreds of serious, peer reviewed, clinical, not epidemiological, studies, from top institutions, that clearly show a disease process going on in these kids -- including Johns Hopkins, The Mind Institute at U.C. Davis, UCLA, MIT, and others. The article in the April, 2007 Discover Magazine alone is very comprehensive, well-documented, and starts with the following statement: The devastating derangements of autism also show up in the gut and in the immune system. That unexpected discovery is sparking new treatments that target the body in addition to the brain.Article: Autism: It's Not Just In The Head Please read it. It is scientifically impossible to have an "epidemic" of a genetic disorder without a trigger of some sort. As my son's doctor says, "Cannot. Happen." Sorry if I am being very harsh. I'm just sick to death of hearing this same bullshit mantra from the media and others who either don't understand the data, don't want to, or are in outright cahoots with the drug companies who fund most of these epidemiological studies...and who never raised, examined or treated an autistic child. /Rant over.
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A day without sunshine is like night. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
Kitsch In Sink.
Last Edited By: princesspeach 11/22/07 11:50:00.
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maum |
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PP as a worried parent who knows NOTHING about autism (excuse the ignorance, I've just never been confronted to it, either in family or friends, plus
it's not a topic that comes up very often in France- there's not much awareness of it).
Does that mean you can contract autism through wi-fi, cellphones etc.? Or is that another scare/guilt trip for parents? |
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princesspeach |
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My honest opinion, maum, is there's probably no truth in the Wi-Fi stuff. That study didn't address the underlying disease process of
autism, or as some doctors call it, Neuroimmune Dysfunction Syndrome (NIDS or NDS, depending on whom you talk to). My own son's doctor (a pediatric
immunologist) refuses to even call it autism. The laboratory (blood) profile of these children is identical to that of a Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction
(also called "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome") patient -- even in children who seem perfectly healthy. My son wasn't healthy, though. He caught
everything, had mysterious fevers, ear infections every month, diarrhea, wouldn't eat, was addicted to milk and dairy products. He had dark circles under
his eyes -- a common feature of autistic children. Today, thanks to treatment he's very healthy --- this was the first year that he didn't catch
anything right when school started! And as he gets healthier, his overall function is improving, but his brain needs stimulation to catch up. He responds to
the educational/behavioral therapies better now than he did when he was younger, simply because he feels better. My son's doctor also helps families
prevent autism from developing in their younger children.
Autism is caused by two factors: genetic susceptibility, and a major insult or series of smaller insults to the infant's immature immune system. The reason the "vaccine" studies don't bear out a definite link is because there are hundreds of possible triggers, not just one. I'm not trying to scare you, maum, I just want to give you information. Do read the Discover Magazine article. There's lots of good info in there. And PM me if you'd like more info.
Today's Deep
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A day without sunshine is like night. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
Kitsch In Sink.
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Rene Lafayette |
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Here's a question for everybody who worries about radio waves (a Wi Fi router, a cell phone, the owners of your favourite radio station, and every piece of
wiring in your house all give off electromagnetic radiation) causing disease: "If true, what are we going to do about it?"
I worked for a while in computer sales and had a client who was worried about ELF--extremely low frequency electromagnetic radiation, such as what would be given off by a computer monitor (or the wiring of your house). All I could do was tell him that Apple followed Swedish standards for this sort of thing, the most stringent at the time. That, and propose that he move away from civilization and live in a cabin, using only natural light or kerosene lamps, and avoiding any kind of electrical gadget. (Interestingly, he smoked and drank, two risk factors for problems that have been much better established in the scientfic literature.) We can all just go back to the Bronze Age, or we can live with the fact that we take all sorts of risks that our ancestors didn't face, but still have measurably better lives. (Although, when I was selling computers, I remember a sales meeting when we discussed the fact that an M.I.T. economist had been asked to and had been unable to document any increase in productivity that could be attributed to computers). A comment on the article puts it in perspective: "I'm 29, my generation was the first of the 3toed video game sloth group that spends more time on the couch, or in an office chair glued to a computer or play station than they do on anything else. And look at us. The generation seems to have chronic problems with obesity, cholesterol, diabetes, and other major health problems." There's the real health hazards of Wi Fi routers, computers, and the modern electronic era.
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