if your take away from this is that the only objection to Mr. Shattock’s work is that it “has yet to be published”, I submit to you that you have not made a critical read of this post or any of the others made about Mr. Shattock. Your “question” reads to me as more of a commentary, especially when you add the “MMR fan-club” statement.

It seems that the only objection to Mr Shattock’s work is that it has yet to be published! Can anyone tell me what the basis is for the quite personal attacks on him as an individual? What is it specifically about his work which is causing such resentment?

My initial feeling is that this must be some sort of MMR fan-club. Please DO answer these questions as I need some answers.

Remember all the body builders who developed kidney failure (and stones) and everyone thought they were ingesting too much protein? Things that SHOULD make you go hmmm….does not take a rocket scientist to figure out our food supply has been contaminated for some time. Just because something was manufactured in Europe or the USA, do not think for a minute the ingredients did not come from CHINA. It is has been found in several foods in the USA. Will never see that on the big screen though. Might scare us enough to resist buying all our processed food.

Remember all the body builders who developed kidney failure (and stones) and everyone thought they were ingesting too much protein? Things that SHOULD make you go hmmm….does not take a rocket scientist to figure out our food supply has been contaminated for some time.

Happy you looked outside the box and can now enjoy your cheese. Also thank you, that is a very interesting point, regarding the reintroduction of “GF/CF” foods at a later date, having no effect. I will have a chat with some of the othe other mothers to get some feedback.

I can only say, as a mother through encounters and observations, that the vote for the GF/CF diet is really split 50/50 amoung all the autistic children I have come across over here in Southern Spain. Some parents are more than delighted with the results, there is no turning back for them, while others have seen no change and have stopped.

I was always told by nutritionists to try the diet for 6 months, keeping a weekly record. There after make a valuation of notable change or typical milestone change.

Many parents I know are keen to try this diet because it is drugs free, it offers a sign of hope, plus time is ticking away and the medical world is still at mystery.

Wishing you a Happy New Year

A woman who advocated in behalf of GF/CF and who had received the results of what was believed to be detected opioid peptides that I had excreted, had on the basis of bad science, told my mother when I was thirteen years old, that I was addicted to milk as if it was a narcotic drug to me.

Only five years later I’ve come to doubt their conclusions, after among other things seeing this study.

Now I do no longer see any reason to be afraid of putting cheese on my pizzas again.

On behalf on the many parents here in Spain who have experienced, through their own eyes, radical improvements in their childrens development after following the GF/CF diet, thank you for your research.

Even for those parents who have not found improvements after the implemention of the diet you have still helped towards the wake up call, the intelligent knowledge of the importance of nutrition, examining what we are intaking, not just trusting the typical labels on the box.

We have become a society that is obsessed with outside appearance and ignore our interiors that are our energy source, our personal engine, how blind we have become and how scared to look outside the box.

Wishing you and all the readers a wonderful New Year full of joy and laughs.

Your conduct, in my opinion, has been deplorable. Over a period of many years, you have repeatedly touted alleged scientific findings which have not been published, you have repeatedly purported to carry out scientific work for which you have no relevant qualifications or training, and you have repeatedly claimed that, notwithstanding the above, your baseless claims about vaccines, opioid peptides and the like, have been confirmed.

In my view, you have behaved with extraordinary vanity and irresponsibility, to the public’s harm.

I wonder what you say to this?

I am pretty sure that I recognise the “Two Mikes” referred to. I can confirm that I respect them as fellow seekers after the truth. Each of us does his best but probably disagree on about 5% of what must be done to help our own and other people’s children.

I would add that I am in agreement with the comments about the immune system. I am told that the the nervous system, immune system and the guts (and skin) are derived from the same embryological tissues and employ the same biochemical systems so anything which causes aberrations in one system is liable to do the same in the others. We are beginning to appreciate that the levels likely to be required to disrupt the immune system are very much lower than those required to affect neural development and transmission but we were unaware of that 18 years ago when I wrote our first papers on ths subject.

I don’t want to upset anyone here but I would appreciate concentration on the issues rather that deficiencies of the individuals involved.

Let’s hope that 2009 provides us all with some answers.

Paul Shattosk