| Woo About Curing Autism Via Drinking Bleach/Bleace Enemas Jun 19th 2012, 00:38 link These people are fucking insane. Quote:
The Phaelospher, it appears, is very unhappy with Mr. Drezner, very unhappy indeed, so much so that he wrote a post entitled The "MMS-is-Bleach" Card is Played… Again. Before we get to the "Fail-osopher," as skeptics like to call him, let's first go back to Mr. Drezner's HuffPo post and what brought it about. It was a hard-hitting article, and, certainly, I can't argue with Mr. Drezner's conclusion:
Let's state the obvious: There is no reason to give bleach to any child, for any reason. There is not a shred of scientific evidence that MMS is an effective treatment for autism. Some purveyors of quackery have spotted a lucrative market and are trying to take advantage of it. But their protocol is far closer to child abuse than it is to effective medical treatment.
Sadly, Autism One and those who attend it have had a very hard time recognizing these simple facts. In a post at Age of Autism, Julie Obradovic tries to defend MMS without actually defending it. Instead, she mentions that Autism One presenters included M.D.s, Ph.D.s, and a Nobel Laureate. But the presence of smart people at a conference that promotes quackery doesn't change the fact that it's promoting quackery.
Indeed, it does not, although I would point out to Mr. Drezner that this Nobel Laureate is a Nobel Laureate who has come down with the Nobel Disease. He's turned into a complete crank, endorsing homeopathy, appearing in an HIV/AIDS denialist movie, and starting up an unethical clinical trial of long-term antibiotic therapy for autistic children. In fact, it was that clinical trial that he came to Autism One to talk about, lending the aura of his Nobel Prize to the most wretched of quackfests.
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Next, Mr. Abraham shares with us the story of a mother who claims to have gotten all sorts of worms out of her autistic child using Ms. Rivera's protocol, complete with pictures. Who knows if this child actually had worms, whether this is a legitimate medical anecdote or a made-up one? Let's say for the moment that it's legitimate. So what? Giving a child enemas of almost any kind would probably get worms out of the colon as they emerge from the small intestine if there are worms in the digestive tract. That doesn't mean that getting rid of worms will cure autism or that bleach enemas are even a good treatment for worms.
Finally, Mr. Abraham makes a most ridiculous analogy:
When we see pictures of children "fighting cancer" that have no hair, we think that the cancer condition caused the hair loss. However, the cancer treatment; the chemotherapy or radiation, actually did the deed. We are accustomed to rationalizing, at doctor's suggestion and all the "respected" literature on the subject, that it was okay because the cancer was so dangerous.
Even though it creates no residual chemical toxicity in the body, doctors will not use MMS, which has proven itself to be a benign and effective way to reduce a myriad of chemical abuses and microbial abnormalities inside the human body. Doctors will not use it because the FDA and the AMA frown upon such use. Livelihoods can be upset if this outlaw "bleach" as the FDA mis-characterizes the sodium chlorite solution that is MMS, is used.
That's right. Mr. Abraham is actually arguing that it's a double standard to criticize treating autism by making children sick by feeding them bleach and giving them bleach enemas while accepting the side effects of hair loss, nausea, and vomiting from cancer chemotherapy. This is an argument so brain dead that I don't think even his Genome Healing Workshop could restore the neurons that must have been destroyed to allow him to make it.
Last week, I asked this rhetorical question: Will the autism "biomed" underground ever renounce using bleach to treat autism? I'm still not sure of the answer, even though several of my readers have told me the answer is no. On the one hand, we have people like Julie Obradovic and the "media director" of the antivaccine crank blog Age of Autism furiously backpedaling and assuring us that they really and truly aren't defending MMS. Clearly, Rivera's appearance at Autism One three weeks ago embarrassed them. Actually, it wasn't her appearance per se, but rather that fact that the blogosphere noticed and spread the news of her quack presentation far and wide. On the other hand, they're also defending "freedom" to choose quackery like MMS and circling the wagons.
| THIS is why I fucking hate woo. Some of it might be harmless, but a lot of it is far from being so. | |
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