Tincup
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Wormser- trying to convince someone, whoever might listen, that autism and Lyme are not connected- has a long list of conflicts of interest. And these are just SOME of them he voluntarily listed.
It seems like he might hate Lyme patients (he and his pals are known to kick the stuffings out of parents of kids with autism), and it seems he takes joy in (and receive money for) destroying our doctors.
What a poor specimen of a man, and a worse example of a doctor.
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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: The authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest.
Dr Wormser reported receiving grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, Immunetics Inc, Bio-Rad, DiaSorin Inc, and BioMerieux for research related to Lyme disease;
holding stock in Abbott; providing expert witness testimony in malpractice cases involving Lyme disease;
serving as unpaid board member at the American Lyme Disease Foundation;
serving as an expert witness regarding Lyme disease in a disciplinary action for the Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts;
serving as a consultant to Baxter for Lyme vaccine development;
and receiving reimbursement for travel expenses from the American Society for Microbiology.
GretaM
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My filters are gone today.
When I first read his name a year ago, I thought it was a nickname Lyme patients made up because he was such an immoral man towards diseased and ill people.
Then about 6 months ago, I thought, "How fitting."
Tonight I think, "The poor worms."
Nothing living deserves word association with him.
Even if it lives in decomposing waste and eats $h|&.
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GretaM
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And then I felt guilty for saying that, but then I remembered dear Gonzo.
And the kids in my support group.
And the fact I am typing this with one eye only.
And my sweet brave friend in Nevada, probably trying to sleep, through the pain, with an icepack near her head.
And everyone on here who has had family and friends walk from their lives because they have been sick longer than "6 weeks"
Those in debt up to their eyeballs, just trying to get one more week of treatment in.
And all because of the lies this man has propagated. devils do walk among us.
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beaches
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He is a disgusting excuse for a human being. He "practices" medicine in an endemic, if not epidemic area of the northeast.
I hold him and his equally disgusting cohorts responsible for the suffering my children, and countless other children, have endured.
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BoxerMom
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quote:Originally posted by GretaM:
When I first read his name a year ago, I thought it was a nickname Lyme patients made up because he was such an immoral man towards diseased and ill people.
Then about 6 months ago, I thought, "How fitting."
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Greta, I first read it as Wormer....like Dean Wormer from the movie Animal House. Still fitting.
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Marnie
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I believe autism can have an underlying genetic mutation cause
OR
be triggered by nasty "environmental influences" (esp. viruses).
My son is in the "autistic" spectrum...along with ADHD, learning disabilities, and glutamate triggered pyridoxine dependent epilepsy (ALDH7A1 genetic error which means simply, he needs a LOT more PLP (active form of B6) than most people need.
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The fact they used the ELISA as a basis for the attached study means the results are utter garbage.
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surprise
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Unless the environmental influences are causing the genes to mutate,
autism cannot be a 'genetic cause'. Autism spectrum disorder is now 1 in 50.
In the 1980's, 1 in 10,000.
That's an epidemic, it is scientifically impossible to have a genetic epidemic. A favorite author of mine says: 'Then where's the gaggle of 50 year old autistic men? Hiding under beds?'
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TerryK
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I have a nephew with autism and tons of kids with adhd in our family. I think there are likely to be a number of factors including infection (lyme and others) and genetic, environmental etc. etc..
This is pretty sneaky and really skews the study in my view. Note that all the autistic children are male.
------------------------------------------------- "Seventy children with autism (58 male; mean [SD] age, 7.2 [3.6] years) and 50 unaffected controls (32 male; mean age, 9.0 [4.0] years) were included." -------------------------------------------------
We know there are differences between males and females regarding lyme. Females tend to be more symptomatic but who knows what other differences exist. Wormser picked all males for a reason.... I would be highly suspicious. I would like to see a statistician evaluate this study.
Razzle
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Wormser cannot support the idea the Lyme or vaccines are behind the increase in Autism...doing so would impact his pocketbook too much...
-------------------- -Razzle Lyme IgM IGeneX Pos. 18+++, 23-25+, 30++, 31+, 34++, 39 IND, 83-93 IND; IgG IGeneX Neg. 30+, 39 IND; Mayo/CDC Pos. IgM 23+, 39+; IgG Mayo/CDC Neg. band 41+; Bart. (clinical dx; Fry Labs neg. for all coinfections), sx >30 yrs. Posts: 4167 | From WA | Registered: Feb 2011
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beaches
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quote:Originally posted by Razzle: Wormser cannot support the idea the Lyme or vaccines are behind the increase in Autism...doing so would impact his pocketbook too much...
Yes indeed.
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Marnie
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My husband's family was originally from NY...
need I say more? Tick central -> genetic (protein) mutation that was carried along.
Some persons make a link between autism (surge in cases) and adding fluoride to our water which, to my knowledge, can't be chelated.
Lots of male-female differences including homocysteine levels that go up in puberty *in males* especially.
Males have a higher Zn:Cu ratio...they need more zinc for BHMT (enzyme) -> DMG -> methionine (we recycle some methionine (CH3) from protein).
Women, on the other hand, need more copper than zinc because a copper enzyme called DAO goes up 500 fold during pregnancy to protect the fetus from too much histamine (many foods are very high in histamine).
More women than men are "autoimmune" and during pregnancy many diseases go into remission because of the hormonal (et al - enzymes) changes that happen during pregnancy so a woman doesn't attack her fetus.
We have genes (and NK cells = natural killer) that protect us from cancer, but some situations look to alter those protective genes and turns them off.
Which is the basis of stem cell therapy...start over with healthy cells that don't have DNA damage.
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