(VIDEO) Robert Kennedy Jr on The Daily Show

[Greeby]

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/celebrity_interviews/index.jhtml

They got it up :woohoo:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. I've been bitching about this since 1996... online... since I got my

first computer. I have never seen such online an organized effort to quash and discredit someone for trying to speak the truth. FINALLY somebody has picked up on it whom they cannot blow off and label a nutjob.



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895296497/qid=1122139860/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-8127018-7379242?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[Orrex]

3. I can't view the video via my connection, but...

If you're praising Kennedy for his screeds against the evils of Thimerosal, I'm afraid that he has been correctly blown off and labelled a nutjob. His articles in Salon and Rolling Stone have been thoroughly debunked, and his arguments are little more than fear-mongering laced with a desperate sort of wishful thinking.

It's a shame, really. He was a powerful advocate (in print, at least) for ecological protections, but by throwing his weight behind a nonsensical crusade, he's more or less permanently sacrificed his credibility for the sake of appealing to and fomenting an ill-informed public's fright.

I'm not saying that you are ill-informed, nor am I making light of anyone who knows someone who suffers from autism (or from other conditions insupportably blamed upon vaccinations); I merely reject the bogus arguments of those who propogandize via pseudoscience against actual science, and Kennedy has now placed himself in that camp.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Did you say "actual science"???

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Thanks, Greeby! nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. There are those who will chide Robert for this... and then there

are people who treat children who cannot metabolize/clear heavy metals from their systems.... thus leading to an increased uptake of cadmium, mercury and lead, and a diminished uptake of calcium, zinc and other nervous system building nutrients.

http://www.hriptc.org/booklet.html

Metallothionein and Autism
by
William J. Walsh, Ph.D.
Anju Usman, M.D.
Jeffery Tarpey
Tanika Kelly


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This booklet describes metallothionein (MT) proteins, their central role in autism, and provides more than 100 references. The Pfeiffer Treatment Center recently discovered that (a) most autism-spectrum patients exhibit evidence of an MT dysfunction, and (b) many of the classic features of autism can be explained by this dysfunction. We believe that autism results from a genetic defect in MT functioning followed by an environmental insult. A metallothionein theory of autism is presented along with discussion of treatment opportunities.

[Greeby]

6. *sigh*

Doesn't he remind you so much of his old man? :patriot: