Chromosome 16 CAUSES autism!

Thank you ABC news and especially YOU Charles Gibson (is there ANY doubt Charles has GOT to be America's new 'most trusted' anchorman? (Read: News Reader )) for the stunning expose finally revealing the TRUE cause of autism...

According to the 01/09/2008 ABC evening news story it's Chromosome 16!

Wow! and

I guess ALL of those little autistic kids... Just had IT coming, you little genetic deficiants!

Guess it's time for one of my patented little diatribes!

Is there ANYONE in the medical field that has ANY idea what they are doing?

Is there ANYONE in journalism that is actually a journalist?

Is there ANYONE that can lay their hands on the text of that 'news report'?

golemina is going to climb on top of his soapbox and disassemble this absolutely classic piece of disinformation.

Can anyone help a brother out?

Can you provide a link to that story?

>Can you provide a link to that story?
I don't think so... It was on the 'evening news'.

A quick search of the ABC web site didn't having this particular segment as making the cut...

Hence my plea for help.

I would like to see more about this myself.

It is important to take the focus off the real causes of these diseases and to blame the individual rather than the assault made of his/her body with the different factors we have discussed in great length many times on ATS.

I will look around and see if I can find anything, too.

Thanks for the heads up!

Well in this article from the New England Journal of Medicine it states that this genetic defect is only responsible for 1% of affected children.....

Maybe the report you heard conveniently left that part out.

-B

[edit on 1/10/08 by Vasa Croe]

Here is the link to the ABC article. It states that the genetic factor is rare and accounts for about 10% of autism cases and as they gather different gene samples, they may be able to identify different autism variations.

I saw part of it goleima. What stood out in my mind was the part that said big pharma has declared autism has actually gone up since taking mercury vaccine stabilizers out. If this is indeed same report. Seems a bit premature to make such a claim in such short order. Sounds like a cyob thing for class action suits coming down the pike.

I think I remember reading that no one really used the mercury free vacintions for long, that they made some up and it didn't get ordered much by the Doc's so they continue to use the original mix.

Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

That would make the above statement useless if they resorted back to the mercury mix.

Edit to add:

Thanks for the link to the story.

[edit on 10-1-2008 by interestedalways]

I have autism and please dont call it a disease. It is not a disease.

We are just different.

The rise of diagnoses has more to do with autism being recongized more often than anything else. It has gotten more and more attention and that just leads to more diagnoses

Keep in mind that chemical burdens are passed from mother to child so if the mother has increased mercury levels (for whatever reason), the chances would be higher for the child to develop autism (assuming that mercury levels are the cause).

Increased mercury levels can be caused by vaccines, contaminated fish, dental fillings, CFL lightbulbs and other sources.