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Kewalo1/11/2010 5:40:13 pm PST

re: #354 Thanos

Do you think vaccines cause autism? It’s a simple question with a yes or no answer.

Of course I don’t. But I do think they are going to find a causal factor that has something to do with what their mothers either put into their bodies or are lacking something.

Just a few years ago it wasn’t known that lack of folic acid caused neural tube defects. And if we had been talking 10 yrs ago and I had said I thought it might you would probably have jumped all over me. Now some are saying and there’s no proof yet that lack of folic acid might also cause cleft palates. So, it seems to me that if a small amount of folic acid can stop these terrible birth defects then I think it’s not unreasonable to think that autism might also be caused by a substance or a lack of one. Brains are very delicate.

So will you now please go be rude to someone else.