Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Re: [epilepsy] Re: some questions



Jan,

Right on

Millie

> My son has autism and seizures.  If stem cell therapy was curing autism
> and seizures and causing full recoveries it would be blasted all over CNN
> and every news program.  No one knows the real cause of autism. 
> Researchers are just speculating at a link between genes and the
> environment.  But no one knows - so a cure is just a hope.  Too many
> people are willing to do ANYTHING to help their children.  Thare are
> thousands of snake oil salesmen out there swearing that they have the
> cure.  They don't.  I fell prey to some of them.  I wanted a cure more
> than anything.  But years later I can spot the snake oil salesmen.  I know
> that if there was a real cure it would be all over the news.  Anectodal
> stories are not scientific data. 
>  
> It's just like all the "diet pills"  they sell.  If they really worked all
> doctors would prescribe them to their overweight patients and we wouldn't
> have any obese people or the complications like diabetes that accompany
> it.
>  
> Medication isn't a cure.  But it is all that we have.
>  
> Jan
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