SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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  1. RobH

    RobH Senior Member

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    I learned of his experience with autistic children back in about 2008 when I was first taking 50,000 D3. His primary job at the time was as a doctor at a mental hospital. The paper is a much more scholarly presentation of his experience than I was aware of from 9 years earlier. It's not a controlled formal study. It's just a review of his experience with children who came to his attention over the years.

    Best collection of vitamin D autism research that I know of is at https://vitamindwiki.com/Autism

    My take on it is that autism is triggered by a variety of toxins. Sufficient vitamin D revs up the immune system enough to neutralize those toxins. The question of dosage is rather like how much water does it take to put out a fire. Enough, not too much.
     
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    A formal scientific paper would have helped but having first referenced a ‘press release’ as the first source,

    For my interest, identify a formal paper from a credible source like JAMA or Lancet.

    Bob Wilson
     
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    Bob Wilson
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    It is a review paper. These are an overview of work done in recent research on the topic in question. They do go through the peer review process.

    This paper had over a hundred references.
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313850575_Vitamin_D_and_autism_what's_new/references

    The journal it is in is part of Springer. I don't know more about it beyond that.
    https://link.springer.com/journal/11154

    Looks like you'll have to contact the author to get the full text.
     
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    interesting article this morning about a guy rfk hired, who had previously been fined for practicing medicine without a license.
    he and his father used to sell their own drug to autistic families for $5-6,000. a month, but it didn't work.
     
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    'pends on what you mean by 'work'.

    if you mean "brings in $5-6,000 a month" maybe it worked ok.
     
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    Selling snake oil potions, false promises and hope is the second oldest profession in the world.......
     
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    Yep...Prostitution and Politics.
     
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    and then accounting
     
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    studies are good. unfortunately, the current people in charge will use anything to try convince people that they know what they are talking about.
    just the fact that they instigated the study makes the true believers accept it as a given
     
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    Those are great what-abouts. Don't ever miss a chance to ignore that these are just TWO reads - among others now coming out from the 'science' peeps. Not rfk or trump or whomever.
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    So why is RFKJr cancelling other vaccine safety and development research?

    "About 90 seconds into his presentation on Covid-19 vaccine safety at a closely watched meeting of advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month, Dr. Bruce Carleton made a startling revelation: The government grant supporting his research had been abruptly terminated.

    The statement was surprising for a few reasons. Carleton had been asked to share his findings with a group entirely put in place by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after Kennedy summarily dismissed all 17 previous experts on the committee, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP, in June. In its first two meetings, the newly composed committee has shown an outsized interest in vaccine safety, in line with Kennedy’s frequent protest that he’s “not anti-vaccine; I am pro-safety.”

    Yet Kennedy’s HHS canceled a major CDC grant focused on the subject in March, curtailing Carleton’s work to understand genetic drivers of rare vaccine safety risks.

    “They canceled [a grant to study] vaccine safety, and yet now we’re talking about vaccine safety,” Carleton later told CNN.

    Carleton’s statement in the meeting was also surprising because, almost immediately, an HHS spokesperson denied that it was true.

    “FYI – as you see below, we did not cancel the grant,” HHS Director of Communications Andrew Nixon said in an email to reporters during the ACIP meeting, providing a link to the grant information on the agency’s website.

    Nixon noted that the grant’s “period of performance” ended March 25. The website, though, shows a negative subtotal of more than $2 million, suggesting money allocated to the grant that was unspent. Paperwork ending the grant shared with CNN states that “the purpose of this amendment is to terminate this award.” And it’s included on an HHS list of terminated grants.

    “The grant was canceled,” said Dr. Steven Black, the primary investigator of the project and co-director of the Global Vaccine Data Network, which received the award and supported Carleton’s work. It “was supposed to run for more than a year after that.”"
     
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    duno -
    whats that got to do w/ the articles.
     
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    the articles are just reporting what the fda is making the mfg's do. not the independent fda, but the politicized one.
    what is enlightening about them?
     
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    They are finally showing the precautions that should have been shown years ago
     
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    Vaccine safety?
     
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    It seems odd me that small mRNA studies get more attention here than large studies of illness and death reduction by COVID vaccines including those based on mRNA.

    The real thing different about mRNA vaccines is their agility. To those fearing this 'voodoo magic' please step aside and allow rest of world to manage next crisis and keep you alive in hospital.
     
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