and http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm

Plus, remeind them that thimersal was essentially removed from all pediatric vaccines almost 6 years ago. Remind them that a little boy died last year because he was being chelated.

Also, they are finding out different genes cause autism in girls:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14158295/

Last but not least, the Autism Hub: http://www.autism-hub.co.uk/

Edit to add: I’m am so sorry that I did not have just one website! But try with the first one.

We have a family close to us with a son diagnosed with autism spectrum..

The parents are suddenly emailing us all this information about how they’ve discovered links to thimerisol, looking into chelation, etc.

WHERE to send them for a simple overview about how everything they are being exposed to is so much quackery?? One site, one simple FAQ or something, that simply lays out what mercury really does, what thimerisol really is, what chelation really does, how much the quacks benefit, etc. Since I’m not a doctor or medical specialist and I don’t have the credentials to walk in and tell them they are being misled, and since they’ve been fed all the lines about the mainstream medical conspiracy, etc., I don’t know where to point them to discover reality on their own. They are the typical loving parents who will do anything to help their kid and it’s just breaking my heart where all this is going.

HELP

But in Rashid’s dream
Was heavenly cream
Heavenly, with no earthly use!

See what I did there? ;o)

You mean the spirit that dictates “How much money can we scam out of desparate people”?

[1] He’s not “board eligible” for Emergency Medicine – anyone who graduated medical school after at least 1983 (and probably before – I just happen to have some solid data on that year) had to have completed a formal Emergency Medicine residency to be eligible for the boards. Buttar graduated in 1991. And he didn’t complete an Emergency Medicine residency.

[2] Like Jeff Bradstreet, Buttar started a military residency (in surgery – Bradstreet’s was in OB/Gyn) but didn’t finish. The last year of a surgical residency is PGY 5, not PGY 3. I suspect that Buttar’s reason for going into “integrative medicine” is the same as Bradstreet’s – he couldn’t finish a real residency program.

[3] Buttar gives the years of his surgical PGY 2 and PGY 3 years as 1992 – 1994; this overlaps with his one-year tour in Korea. There’s something fishy here, since a tour in Korea would not count as a surgical residency year. A brigade “surgeon” is no more than a general practitioner – “surgeon” is military for “doctor”.

[4] Of all the “military honors/awards” he has listed, the only two that are true “awards” or “honors” are the Army Commendation Medal and the Army Achievement Medal. Both are commonly awarded to officers serving on one-year “hardship” tours, such as his tour in Korea (where he got them). I’ve got a couple myself, if he needs any more (but he can’t have my Bronze Star with “V” – I earned that).

So, apart from lies, fluff and navel lint, his CV is empty. He and Jeff Bradstreet must be channeling the same mean spirit.

Prometheus

Aw shucks. I would’ve enjoyed discussing science with him too had he actually presented any.

Um… obviously, she expects us to believe things that she cannot produce evidence for yet is unwilling to accept what we can actually prove… whether it’s the science or or diagnoses.

I feel sad for her kids.

I’m sleep deprived today (sun came up too early… stupid solstice!), so I am avoiding work—- which included spending lots of time reading the Autism Diva’s contribution to the Skeptic’s Circle… which lead to check out KC’s blog.

Absolutely no updates on Buttar other than last February when he reported after 10 months things were going great (and the photos show a very young child who looks like he could be improving just due to time). The latest blog post is an article by some guy who died eighteen years ago:
http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/mendelson.html

(oh, th e Buttar update was http://autismreality.blogspot......ttars.html … and Brian Hooker has interesting comments about you)