Comments on: How to create a disease

By: jdc

jdc — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:30:25 +0000

Enlightening. Found a couple of bits particularly interesting – that children improved if constipation was avoided and that the grade 0 and grade 3 ILF images were taken from the same child. It’s a shame Blackwell haven’t made the papers in question available as free full text.

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Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:49:35 +0000

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By: Kev

Kev — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:12:53 +0000

Kaiden – Panto is short for Pantomime. A Pantomime is basically an overwrought play in which the audience are heavily participatory. They often take place just after Christmas.

For your furthe edification: http://www.limelightscripts.co.....istory.htm

By: S.L.

S.L. — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:52:42 +0000

Thank you, Nigel. Very interesting, and I appreciate you laying it all out for us. My older child (NT) has this exact problem, as dx by colonoscopy. I wonder if these “physicians” would then diagnose her with autism? I am curious as to what the preferred “treatment” for “autistic enterocolitis” is, hmmm…bet I can take a few guesses…

By: Kaiden

Kaiden — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:30:35 +0000

Completely off topic, but I need a British person to explain to me. What does the phrase, “it’s nearly Panto time” mean? David Tennet says that phrase in a concert of Doctor Who music, and the audience reacts as if it is meaningful. I see references to it when I Google it, but nothing that defines it.

By: Schwartz

Schwartz — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:45:02 +0000

Joseph,

“but you also have to wonder about their moral rectitude from time to time.”

LOL, I can’t think of a better choice of words.

Nigel,

Well written.

By: Regan

Regan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:41:04 +0000

This seems to have “gutted” autistic enterocolitis (bad pun but I couldn’t resist):-/.

I don’t recall the exact citation (from Gut? Pediatrics?, but this seems to fit with the finding there that there was no separate pathology from that in typical children.

Very interesting post. Thanks.

By: century

century — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:18:58 +0000

I Nigel a mate of Dear Brian?

Roll on the 27th ;-)

By: Ms. Clark

Ms. Clark — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:56:57 +0000

I remember the discussion of the slides and the time stamp on them from the Hazlehurst trial (hearing?). I didn’t understand what the significance was of the discussion, so I’m grateful to “Nigel” for that insight.

There’s more about Wakefield and the MIND Institute that came out in the Omnibus (Hazlehurst and Snyder) that needs to be explored if not exploded.

It seems to me that the antivaxers and certain of their pet scientists have no problems with messing with data and burying data they don’t like.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:33:09 +0000

Yep, fascinating, as is usually the case with anti-vax research. It seems to me that anti-vaxers are not only prone to scientific error, but you also have to wonder about their moral rectitude from time to time.