Poll: Autism. Bad or Good?

[wearesoneutralthatithurts]

To be perfectly honest, we're a social species, and we need each other, so while some individuals may thrive with their extra learning skills, without proper social skills, they can sometimes be more of a drag than a bonus. I dont mean to generalize, but social skills are far more important in the way of operating around other people in my opinion.

I was about to post a long-winded argument about why it isn't good when I saw this. Thanks dude.

Ever thought about the fact, that some people need lesser social blabla? Humanity is made of individuals. Different people, different needs.
Some need very little intimacy. the are happy if they can be alone. People can be very annoying and disturbing, so its nice to have much time for yourself.


I am studying, so i meet much people, but at my free time i am at home the most time. I seldom meet other people at my free time. I play games, cook, learn and read. and sleep. I like sleeping. There is no need to socialise much for me.

 

[sirkai007]

Don't care about the Lady comp.

It may have been due to Dr. Wakefield being hired as an expert witness by a law firm that was suing a pharmaceutical company on client claims that their product was harmful to children.

Agreed, my point to make it perfectly clear was simply a statement on how the "system" operates, for example, even if a medical practitioner where to honestly beleive it (ie that vaccines are harmful) they aren't allowed to say so, (usually) health sciences are very strictly regulated.

And unless one uses their authority for whatever the medical oversight committee of that country says is okay, then that license (ie to do medicine) is usually considered for being revoked.

Once again I don't actually share the belief that vaccines cause autism personally, but oversimplifying things as I am of the opinion that you seem to be doing, is just as dangerous as saying it happens without much if anything more then a correlation between the two.

Now there IS a correlation, but scientifically correlation does NOT imply causation.

My father is a doctor here in the States and if he feels that a treatment is bad it is his duty to make it known to the medical community.

 

[Grigori361]

Don't care about the Lady comp.

It may have been due to Dr. Wakefield being hired as an expert witness by a law firm that was suing a pharmaceutical company on client claims that their product was harmful to children.

Agreed, my point to make it perfectly clear was simply a statement on how the "system" operates, for example, even if a medical practitioner where to honestly beleive it (ie that vaccines are harmful) they aren't allowed to say so, (usually) health sciences are very strictly regulated.

And unless one uses their authority for whatever the medical oversight committee of that country says is okay, then that license (ie to do medicine) is usually considered for being revoked.

Once again I don't actually share the belief that vaccines cause autism personally, but oversimplifying things as I am of the opinion that you seem to be doing, is just as dangerous as saying it happens without much if anything more then a correlation between the two.

Now there IS a correlation, but scientifically correlation does NOT imply causation.

My father is a doctor here in the States and if he feels that a treatment is bad it is his duty to make it known to the medical community.

I never said he didn't but what happens if the medical community refused to acknowledge even the possibility of something working, which might actually work?

This lady comp which I'm using as an example is a good one because I went to my doctor (at the time, I've moved out of area since) and he told me A: as a doctor he can't recommend it because the medical establishment doesn't recognize it as birth control, but as a scientist there is no reason it wont. So as long as the record is correct he said go for it, there is no reason it can't be more effective then the pill and the condom.

To paint the picture with a more perhaps (to yourself) relevant case, see the medical community's endorsement of cigarettes, and how for years many of the most respected doctors in all sorts of fields all said that A: there is nothing wrong with them, and B: they may actually be GOOD for you.

It took a private interest group of people railing against the medical industry (for what was essentially fraud on their part) and the Cigarette industry, recall that when that case was won they said A: the cig companies Knew about this for years, and B: the doctors supporting them did too.

Case and point, the industry is self regulating, and only a fool expects anything but corruption from a self regulating industry. If you dad is part of that good for him, I don't care. My mother is an accountant, that doesn't mean I think the accounting industry can do no wrong.