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And please note - this is coming from someone who has hypothyroidism and wasn't sad, but instead suffered an array of other problems as a result of it. This condition is nothing to brush off, it can lead to severe heart complications if left untreated. In short, it can kill you. And there's probably some viewers who are ignoring potential symptoms, not aggressively monitoring it or taking medication and making the appropriate lifestyle changes (I saw parts of the episode where Oprah talked about her post-hypo diet, there was no fiber, kinda important if you have hypothyroidism actually).
It's a little pathetic, when you think about it, that the world's richest woman can't handle something millions of men and women deal with everyday, without access to healthcare, organic food, assistants, etc. I really hope this story blows up, as it would at least help educate the American public about hyper and hypothyroidism and the autoimmune disorders that can cause it.
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Dr. Phil & The Secret on the other hand...unforgivable.
06/01/09
I certainly wasn't aware their was a cure yet. Maybe he knows something the rest of the medical community doesn't?
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On topic: Jenny McCarthy=Depressingly nuts. I used to think she was refreshingly entertaining and wacky. Why are these traits so close together on the personality tree?
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Don't mess with Oprah citizens, she will find you and destroy you.
Oprah is all powerful, her disciples come from every walk of life and are everywhere, watching and waiting to crush all those opposed to her agenda.
To criticize or poke fun is to tempt fate. Her organization is more formidable than the national security agency. They know where you live. They know how to get to you.
They know where it hurts the most. Consider yourself warned.
All hail Oprah. Queen of America.
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Wanta go a couple fast rounds with da Grand Ole Oprah?
06/01/09
But yeah, she'll cut you.
& Grand Ole Oprah made me laugh.
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They object to giving babies 35+ vaccines before they're 2. They rightly point out that that the current schedule in the U.S. involves far more vaccines at earlier ages than any other developed country -- or what was recommended in the U.S. 20 years ago.
The current position of the medical establishment is that whatever vaccines, however numerous and at whatever age is perfectly safe. If it had been responsible and carefully considered the risk / reward for every vaccine , they wouldn't have so many parents questioning their advice.
A good example is the Hep B vaccine administered to every newborn in the country. Hep B is only transmittable via blood or sex -- so if the mother doesn't have it, the baby doesn't have it and has no risk of getting it until exposed as a teenager or adult.
And there have been no peer-reviewed studies that have looked at whether the current schedule is safe. The studies only look at individual or small numbers of vaccines. No one can say with any certainty -- because it hasn't been studied -- that there is not a certain percentage of toddlers who can't handle the toxins in the 35+ vaccines administered.
05/04/09
As for your peer reviewed studies, please remember that the "study" that first proved the Autism-Vaccine "link" failed peer review and was retracted by it's author. I'm sure someone else who is more awake can link or tell you what journals to look at online which have been peer reviewed, as I find it highly unlikely that the current schedule was made up w/o ANY testing whatsoever.
BTW, your Hep B comment is the one that made me realize that I knew I had heard your points before, mostly from Mrs. McCarthy's mouth and in countless interviews with anti-"unsafe"vaccine proponents.
05/04/09
Hep B can be transmitted by saliva. It is extraordinarily contagious.
05/05/09
Babies get the hepatitis B vaccine immediately after they're born and the only way for a newborn to contract that disease is if the mother is a carrier. Why not just screen the mother? Evan was handed to me pre-vaccinated with a Band-Aid on his foot.
05/04/09
Severe vitmain & mineral deficencies and certain food allergies can sometimes mimic the symptoms of autism, and that may be what she "cured". In her first book, Jenny said she ate nothing but fast food through her entire pregnancy. Isn't it more logical that her kid was malnourished and allergic to gluten, dairy and preservatives, and that once she changed his diet his symptoms disappeared?
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Pssst...I'm not sure Oprah is the best judge of people...
05/04/09
self-righteous "America's Most Wanted" dude is making off his son's tragedy. Then I would like someone to explain how this is different from what Lynn Spears and
Dina Lohan are doing?
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Maybe Scientology causes autism.
05/04/09
And fuck Jenny McCarthy, from a real live Aspie. I don't even think her son ever had autism, personally.
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Yeah, none of us "know" him (which could be said about every person ever covered in Gawker media), and I personally don't really care a whole lot about the "what causes autism" debate as much as I care about the "medical treatments for autism" debate (although there's obviously overlap). Maybe so many vaccinations are harmful, I dunno, but I take offense to the idea that autism- across the board- is something that should be conceptualized as 'needing to be cured' rather than a spectrum disorder that has multiple treatment options (or none at all). I don't think Jenny McCarthy is helpful to the ASD cause in the larger scale. I think she's just feeding into middle-class women who read Web-MD thinking they know more than actual medical professionals.
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I think her and her ilk were best exemplified by a woman I heard on Science Friday on NPR. A mother called up and was going on and on against a Dr. and the host, Ira Flato. The Dr. was shooting down this womans points very well, to which the mother contended that he/others were in Big Pharma's pocket. The host finally asked the woman what it would take(studies,experiments, choosing the people who performed them) for her to "trust" a vaccine. Her answer was nothing. Nothing would convince her to trust vaccines. And how can you debate/win in a situation where there is no group of facts/data that a person would EVER believe?
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[www.sciencefriday.com]
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@porcuPINE: @Mike Jahn: Thank you. My next inductee will possibly be Oprah herself, as the amount of pseudo science she spews is astounding, and people listen, cuz "It's Oprah!".