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• On the post: Thanks Anti-Vax Loons: The Return Of The Measles And The Backlash Against Jenny McCarthy

  

  Wally ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2014 @ 06:45am

  Re: wake up!

  I hope you're being sarcastic...but in case you aren't...Rothschild is merely a financial advisor. One of the world's biggest philanthropists, Bill Gates, followed the company's advice. It's an investment corporation that has no ties to the pharmasuetical industry except for financial advice.

• On the post: Thanks Anti-Vax Loons: The Return Of The Measles And The Backlash Against Jenny McCarthy

  

  Wally ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 09:41pm

  Re: Re: Re: Even the Anti-Vax crowd has a good point:

  The reason Autism is on the rise is because it's easier to diagnose at an earlier age than it was in 2001....This is because the DSM (something I'm sure you've never heard of because it's painfully obvious you know nothing of autism and how it's PURELY A GENETIC DISPOSITION) got reorganized and Asperger's Syndrome was reclassified as being a form of Autism.
  
  That being said, just because one had a genetic disposition towards something...doesn't mean that they will get that something each generation...my great, great grandmother was autistic...nobody elese in my lineage had it but her great grandmother...and it so happens both my brother and I are on the spectrum.
  
  
  Your argument about "but it's no change because it is on the rise" is due to anecdotal evidence. Autism can be diagnosed as early as 6 months because that is when the symptoms first start appearing. Most children are often diagnosed with the disorder at roughly the same time (before) you get your first tetanus shot at that age...So please spare me the straw man argument...I'm a psychologist who grew up around a house full of medical knowledge and people in this thread are more knowledgable than average about all this.

• On the post: Thanks Anti-Vax Loons: The Return Of The Measles And The Backlash Against Jenny McCarthy

  

  Wally ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 09:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: Even the Anti-Vax crowd has a good point:

  But Thermiseral wasn't causing any damage...The only time it would cause harm is in an ultra rare scenario caused by, genetic disposition, is if you had an allergic retraction to an MMR shot.

• On the post: Thanks Anti-Vax Loons: The Return Of The Measles And The Backlash Against Jenny McCarthy

  

  Wally ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 09:17pm

  Re: Thank you for spreading the propaganda

  When you believe it ethical, at all, to give unsuspecting autistic children an endoscopic colonoscopy (which is as traumatizating as being raped for those not so functional brethren of mine) to test for autism causing bacteria in the colon...and are being paid by companies looking to make a quick buck against an an entire the European health industry...then you have no right to declare that the disorder that I, AND MY BROTHER WERE BORN WITH...to ever have been caused by the contents of a vaccine itself. People like you often search for and only seek out the results you wish to publish...but the problem is that you have confirmation bias with that. I'm sorry, but Andrew Wakefield deserved to be stripped of his medical doctorate and license to practice. He accepted a bribe to fudge the results of the research he was already doing.
  
  Now...there is some evidence that a vaccine can cause autism or some other developmental disability...but, that's only because an idiot would suggest giving a Hepatitis B shot to their infant patient.
  
  Now mind you, the companies financing Wakefield's "Research" happened to be rivals of the companies manufacturing MMR shots at that time.
  
  If your child has Autism...just stop denying your genetics caused that. Autistic individuals are a gift from God himself by some views as a reminder to remain honest with each other, and pure of heart. Mozart, Handel, and Einstein all had Asperger's Syndrome or some other form of autism...there weren't vaccines back then to cause it...

• On the post: Thanks Anti-Vax Loons: The Return Of The Measles And The Backlash Against Jenny McCarthy

  

  Wally ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 08:55pm

  Re: Re: science ... was developed by a bunch of devout Christians, most of them priests

  Try Galileo Galilee...and Julious Capernucus...Marie Cury...the Wright Brothers, Neil Armstrong, Isaac Newton, oh and that Catholic Priest who invented the widely accepted "Big Bang Theory"...and it was a Gregorian Monk who proved the world wasn't flat...
  
  Persians and Moors started avid scientific studies Astronomy
  
  Newton was somehow recently declared a haratic by a group of devout anti-theists...the truth of the matter is that they base GHW assumption that Alchemy is a "no-no" for Christisns because it somehow evokes "evil spirits"...but when you look at the Periodic Table and when it was organized (first by Aromic Weigt) by Mendeleve, it was "Chemistry" was still called "Alchemy". Mendeleev was a Christian...oh and Henry Mosely (responsible for what we see as the modern day Periodic Table of The Elements...by Atomic Number) was also a Christian.
  
  Now certainly Christians are not responsible for all the major scientific discoveries...but nobody can, try as they might, fully claim that any religion has held science back...or humanity for that matter...Turns out that when we (as cave dwelling Homo Sapiens 10's of Thousands of years ago) figured out we were killing innocent creatures for food, we felt very bad about that...If we didn't superstitiously believe they had a soul, we wouldn't have survived the guilt of killing it. This basically means that we felt guilty, and in groups we asked those animal spirits to forgive us...If we didn't organize a religion around that, our cave dwelling ancestors would not have done this in an orginized way. It MADE us cooperate with each other...
  
  Here's the bottom line, organized religion has helped progress humanity during a historically crucial time where we as a species needed to survive to stay around (ice age anyone?). It has not hindered it...We would still be apes without it.

• On the post: Town Built Around No WiFi/Radio Waves Rules Is Right Next To NSA Snoop Center

  

  Wally ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 08:23pm

  Re: Re: About Greenbank

  Not saying they interfere...but they certainly act as an enabler for constant online use in public places...which is in fact not at all healthy.

• On the post: Thanks Anti-Vax Loons: The Return Of The Measles And The Backlash Against Jenny McCarthy

  

  Wally ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 08:07pm

  Re: Even the Anti-Vax crowd has a good point:

  Only people who don't vaccinate due to religious grounds have a point. You want a real conspiracy...I'll point STRAIGHT to Andrew Wakefield himself...
  
  His "research" was not only HIGHLY unethical (more on that in a moment)...but it was funded and backed by groups similar to AF Holdings looking to sue the pharmasutical industry in the UK. That's merely the tip of the iceberg...He also gave endoscopic colonoscopies to autistic children to test to see of they had "autism colitis"...a bacterial disease which he himself declared as the cause of autism as a direct result of an MMR shot.
  
  Now to a point, Thermiseral is a mercury based conpound and is a common food, drug, and vaccine additive meant for preservation of organic material...which was used to aid MMR vaccines in having a longer shelf life...Some people are highly allergic to it...so to reduce the risk of an anaphylactic alergic reaction, the CDC ORDERED the use of different chemicals. They have stopped using that and put in actually much safer chemicals.
  
  Now granted there are some shots you should never give an infant...Most of the (extremely rare and legitimate) cases of vaccine injury are the results of either a previously unknown allergies...or a bad doctor suggesting an unessecery shot (Hepatitus B, unlike its counterparts, is an STD).
  
  Now about Autism...Both my brother and I are actually in the spectrum...we both have Asperger's Syndrome...Autism is genetic, and Asperger's Syndrome is a latent form of Autism. The difference is that in the former, brain development happens so fast, that the brain doesn't have time to structure itself. Asperger's Syndrome is where it's still a more rapid average development of the brain, but the brain does structure itself enough to function more normally during the rapid development.

• On the post: Town Built Around No WiFi/Radio Waves Rules Is Right Next To NSA Snoop Center

  

  Wally ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 07:44am

  About Greenbank

  Greenbank, West Virginia is a hub for astronomy...It has a network of radio telescopes working in unison.
  
  That being said...while WiFi cannot make people seriously ill, the idea radio signals screwing with our brains is not all that uncommon and does have a more scientific base in psychology than one thinks. It cannot cause damage, but one cannot forget about how humans used to find where north is pointed.
  
  Mind you I do find it a bit ironic that a certain conspiracy group is encouraging people to move to a radio free zone that happens to be the home of an NSA listening post...I just cannot totally discount the psychological results of living and growing up in a radio free zone. This means people aren't totally focused on the demands of being on social media and get on with their lives.

• On the post: Will Cheese Derail TAFTA/TTIP?

  

  Wally ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2014 @ 06:22am

  The argument is that the American-made cheeses are shadows of the original European varieties and cut into sales and identity of the European cheeses.
  
  In that case I propose that the European beef market shut down because it's a mere shadow of the American beef market...

• On the post: Corruption Index: If A State Moves To Ban Tesla Direct Sales, It's A Sign Of Corruption

  

  Wally ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2014 @ 07:14am

  Tesla does go through dealerships sometimes...Columbus, Ohio has a dealership called The Toybarn that acts sort of like a broker to direct sales of super, hyper, and exotic sportscars.

• On the post: Student Points Finger Like Gun, Gets Suspended Under Zero Tolerance Rules

  

  Wally ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2014 @ 10:02pm

  Re: Re:

  Never did I defend the school's descision...they were the ones interpreting Ohio BOE guidelines incorrectly.

• On the post: Snowden On Going Through 'Proper Channels': Reporting Concerns Gets You Flagged As A 'Troublemaker'

  

  Wally ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2014 @ 09:53pm

  All praise the mighty Xnu!!!

  Seems the NSA runs just like the Church of Scientology...
  
  If you comlain about fellow members or about the church you're a suppressive person (a "Troublemaker") and when you leave with information about the church's operation, you get Squireled (Sought after and harassed).

• On the post: Student Points Finger Like Gun, Gets Suspended Under Zero Tolerance Rules

  

  Wally ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2014 @ 09:39pm

  I will point out that the school involved is being investigated by the Ohio BOE over the matter. In my state, being Ohio, each school makes their own policies...but rules concerning guns and how to handle gun situations are universal in Ohio...The principle of that school based the suspension as a Level 2 Gun Lookalike...which by Ohio Board of Education standards, is anything that looks real enough to be used in a threatening manner...The school Nathan went to...fucked up royal.

• On the post: The Aereo Case Isn't About Aereo, But About The Future Of Cloud Computing And Innovation

  

  Wally ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2014 @ 12:43pm

  Oh man...the US Supreme Court is known to see right through those hidden agendas at its highest level...That being said, the broadcasters seem to be trying to set a precedent for if or when Kim Dotcom gets extridited to the US for his Megaupload hearing.

• On the post: Nintendo Kills Online Functionality For Wii, DS Titles, Highlighting Need For Greater User Control Over Content They Supposedly Own

  

  Wally ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2014 @ 05:41pm

  The only reason PS3 and XBox360 will still be online for years to come is that Sony and Microsoft make their users pay a monthly fee to play online...Nintendo provided a free online gaming service to its users and still does....and since they lost money investing in the Wii U, it sort of makes sense to switch off the servers for their previous generation of consoles.

• On the post: Austin Begins To Show Us What Broadband Competition Was Supposed To Look Like

  

  Wally ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2014 @ 02:33pm

  For those who may not know...1Gbps symmetrical means 500Mbps up 500Mbps down...and in the case of fiber lines, it requires a line going in and a separate line going out..

• On the post: Apple Decides That Dead Silence Is The Best Way To Address Major Encryption Flaw On OS X

  

  Wally ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2014 @ 06:59pm

  iOS 7.0.6 fixed vulnerabilities and the next version of OSX will have the same fixes...

• On the post: Apple Decides That Dead Silence Is The Best Way To Address Major Encryption Flaw On OS X

  

  Wally ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2014 @ 06:59pm

  iOS 7.0.6 fixed vulnerabilities and the next version of OSX will have the same fixes...

• On the post: Politicians Freak Out Over New FCC Neutrality Moves, Not Realizing They Probably Won't Do Anything

  

  Wally ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2014 @ 11:49am

  Re: Re: Hold on...

  I told my mother specifically about peering and what it was and her eyes sort of lit up like a Christmas Tree. She remembers when major phone companies in her time (when she was even a few years younger than my age) did it all the time...One of the biggest offenders of line peering was phone line peering between Bell Telephone Company and AT&T (no surprise on the latter now by the way)...They were a duopoly that charged their customers extra on long distance for users calling each other on different services...Hell...Bell even fought (and lost) trying to claim regulatory capture...It took the FCC 25 years to finally crack down...And boy howdy did they crack down hard after gathering 25 years of evidence...There's is always a paper trail, whether it be e-mail, paper bills, online data transactions between lines...the will always be a trail leading to the ultimate crack of the whip...Call it my American Sense of Optimism...I think that those statements made by the FCC are the beginning. ISP's challenged the FCC in court and may have won this round, but if I recall, it doesn't have a habit of covering loopholes...This includes declaring them common class ISP's...

• On the post: Politicians Freak Out Over New FCC Neutrality Moves, Not Realizing They Probably Won't Do Anything

  

  Wally ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2014 @ 10:16am

  Hold on...

  Layered on top were empty promises about improving competition and some empty threats about reclassifying ISPs as common carriers if they don't behave (which is supposed to be a threat, but every ISP lobbyist on K Street knows they won't do this if they weren't willing to do it already).
  
  Ok...here's the fun part...I sincerely believe that the FCC will reclassify ISP's as common carriers if they DO NOT behave at all...If I recall correctly, the last time they did this to an entire industry was because phone companies were charging hourly rates on long distance modem connections...and charging customers on their phone bills for using another company's lines...My parents also remember a time when the phone companies had an oligopoly similar to what the major ISP's have now...and they all split up into individual companies on the orders of the FTC...Maybe this is the same process the FCC has in mind...slow and sneaky.

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