Update re Autism and Vaccinations

[Bud Weiss]

Newest Article re Fraudulent research paid for by Big Pharma.  Business as
usual. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/144727
<http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/144727>Be well, Bud Weiss

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Adam Blatner <ablatner at verizon.net> wrote:

>  Dear All,
>     I want to remind folks about the presence of at least a thousand claims
> by alternative healing proponents about different nutrients and other
> programs. It is convenient to assume the paranoid stance that big drug
> companies are suppressing the truth, but we should note that long before big
> pharma this cultural trend has been prevalent. Even granted that 50 of the
> 1000 might be absolutely true and would represent fundamental revolutions in
> not just treatment, but also in the understanding of disease, we would still
> have the problem of assessing which 50 out of the thousand those valid
> approaches were.
>       This requires the hard work of science, of asking, "but is it so?"
> and being aware of the many rhetorical devices, logical pitfalls, and other
> errors that ordinary scientists have to wrestle with.
>       Could it be that many claims have been tested and re-tested and not
> found valid, such as the aforementioned "ortho-molecular" psychiatry
> approach?
>       It is also true that even after repeated tests and evaluations by
> panels truly trying to be impartial, such as those evaluating the idea that
> autism is caused by immunization, and finding no connection, that a
> significant portion of parents---perhaps a fourth---continue to believe it
> does. Ditto a certain percentage of people who continue to believe that
> President Obama is not really an Americn by birth.
>      So the recent exchange about alternative healing approaches and diet,
> while peripheral to our common interest, nevertheless is useful in reminding
> us that many psychotherapists view psychodrama as a similarly unproven
> methodology and that the research basis for our work could use further
> support. All fields have occasions to be reminded to resist the lure of
> short-cuts and the challenge of critical thinking.
>      Warmly, Adam
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