Holistic Doctors being murdered?

JEEP said:
Another fly in the ointment?

Here comes the 21st Century Cures Act: Say Goodbye to Vaccine Safety Science by Barbara Loe Fisher
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMw2n8RIXVI

Things are getting more disturbing by the day.

I'm starting to wonder, "if" vaccine's are the real - Mark of the Beast? Those who do not have the mandated vaccines, including all adults will be denied social benefits (Welfare, etc) or even employment. Think of the Millions on food stamps and other Social programs. it would be a nightmare scenario?


Rhode Island mandates HPV vaccine for seventh-graders
http://www.turnto10.com/story/29664097/rhode-island-mandates-hpv-vaccine-for-seventh-graders

July 29, 2015 - Seventh-graders in all public and private schools in Rhode Island are now required to get the HPV vaccine.

Starting this fall, seventh-graders who do not get the vaccine will not be allowed to attend school unless their parents seek an exemption for medical or religious reasons,
the Providence Journal reported Tuesday.

Tricia Washburn, chief of the office of immunization for the Rhode Island Department of Health, said the Centers for Disease Control found no safety concerns with the vaccine.

[...] Some concerned parents have begun to petition repeal the regulation through a Facebook group called Rhode Islanders Against Mandated HPV Vaccinations.

The state will hold hearings in August to give parents information and answer their questions.
 
angelburst29 said:
H.R.2232 - Vaccinate All Children Act of 2015
_https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2232/text


The 21st Century Cures Act — Will It Take Us Back in Time?
_http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1506964


This "Decade of Vaccines" program might be what is prompting the two Bill's above?

Forced vaccinations part of HHS's Healthy People 2020 'Decade of Vaccines' agenda
http://www.naturalnews.com/050636_vaccine_tyranny_SB_277_Decade_of_Vaccines.html

We're right smack-dab in the middle of the federal government's "Decade of Vaccines" (2010-2020), and things couldn't be moving any faster in the direction of total medical tyranny. California Governor Jerry Brown just signed into law SB 277 to force vaccines on nearly all school-age children; some members of Congress are now pushing for a national mandatory vaccination plan; and corporations and health groups all across the country are increasingly ostracizing employees and other individuals who refuse the jab.

So why all this sudden hysteria over vaccines? It's all part of the Healthy People agenda first hatched by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) back in the late 1970s, which paved the way for what we're seeing today with the mad rush to make sure everyone's vaccinated. Part of the plan is to corral the masses into accepting all government-approved vaccines as safe and effective medicine through manipulation and even force, which is quickly coming to pass.

In addition to this forced use of taxpayer dollars to fund the development and sale of vaccines, the Decade of Vaccines is also focused on pushing more vaccine propaganda on both healthcare providers and consumers. Here are the five goals of the National Vaccine Implementation Plan, which was developed in conjunction with Healthy People:

1) Develop new and improved vaccines
2) Enhance the vaccine safety program
3) Support improved "communication" to enhance informed vaccine decision-making
4) Ensure a stable supply of, access to and better use of recommended vaccines
5) Increase global prevention through vaccines

The only way such goals can be achieved, of course, is through compulsion and the elimination of vaccine exemptions, which is what we're currently seeing in the national debate. A report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases admits this when it states that one of the ways to increase vaccination rates is to "minimize vaccine exemptions."

"States should enact and enable universal childhood vaccinations except where immunization is medically contraindicated," reads the report. "Non-medical vaccine exemptions, including personal belief exemptions, enable higher rates of exemptions in those states that allow them [implying religious and philosophical exemptions should not be allowed]," it adds, as covered by GreenMedInfo.com

So this is where we're at: Governments are working overtime to eliminate vaccine exemptions at the same time as some 300 new vaccines are currently in the development pipeline. Can you see the writing on the wall and where things are headed?
 
This article states that the Bradstreet Family have hired two former FBI Agents to help with the investigation.

Facebook Wall of Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, Holistic Doctor Who Passed Away Mysteriously, Overwhelmed by Support of Grateful Parents
http://althealthworks.com/6880/you-saved-my-sons-life-outpouring-of-support-for-holistic-autism-doctor-on-facebook-after-his-mysterious-death/

On June 19 a prominent holistic doctor named Jeff Bradstreet’s body was found floating in the Rocky Broad River in North Carolina, just days after his office was raided by FDA and Georgia Drugs and Narcotics officers.

The 61-year-old had died of an apparent gunshot to the chest in an incident that was immediately ruled a suicide, but the family reportedly has serious questions about the official story and have vowed to “get to the bottom of (what happened),” using private investigators according to this article from the website HealthNutNews.com.

Bradstreet was reportedly facing up 20 years in prison for administering an unapproved immune system-focused treatment that critics say has not been adequately tested for safety.

Meanwhile, a tug-of-war over Bradstreet’s real legacy has broken out between certain media outlets and the doctor’s supporters, patients and family members.

The Facebook page, titled ‘Remembering Dr. Bradstreet,’ includes a picture of the former preacher turned holistic doctor with the words “Redefining Autism” included. Dr. Bradstreet received his medical license in 1984, graduating from the University of South Florida and going on to start the International Child Development Resource Center in Melbourne, Florida. He also published controversial research in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons linking vaccine additives to autism while noting that most patients tend to have higher levels of mercury in their bodies.

Dr. Bradstreet endorsed alternative treatments such as intravenous immunoglobulin, stem cell therapy, chelation of heavy metals and other toxins, and even hyperbaric oxygen chambers. He noted that each child responds differently to different treatments, and that each case should be handled on an individual basis for best results.

With over 4,000 fans on Facebook, the ‘Remembering Dr. Bradstreet’ page is being flooded with messages of support daily, along with testimonials of his successes in treating autistic children.

The challenges continue to mount, but the Bradstreet family is focused on learning the truth about his death, hiring two former FBI agents as part of their investigation.
 
angelburst29 said:
"What is being found by these doctors is that something is being introduced into the human body that is called Nagalase.

Nagalase causes immunodeficiency. Nagalase blocks production of GcMAF, thus preventing the immune system from doing its job."


GcMAF for the treatment of cancer, autism, inflammation, viral and bacterial disease
_http://www.faim.org/autism/gcmaf-treatment-cancer-autism-inflammation-viral-bacterial-disease.html

Human GcMAF, otherwise known as Vitamin D binding protein macrophage activating factor, holds great promise in the treatment of various illnesses including cancer, autism, chronic fatigue and possibly Parkinson's. Since 1990, 59 research papers have been published on GcMAF, 20 of these pertaining to the treatment of cancer. 46 of these papers can be accessed through the GcMAF web site.

GcMAF is a vital part of our immune system which does not work without it; and is part of our blood. GcMAF stimulates the macrophage element of the immune system to destroy cancer cells. It also blocks the supply of nutrients to cancer cells by stopping blood vessel development to the site (anti-angiogenesis). Cancer cells are weakened and starved, making them more vulnerable to attack by the GcMAF stimulated macrophage system. Research has shown macrophage activation and stopping diseased blood vessel development can also help in various neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory conditions, and diabetic retinopathy.

In addition, experimental and clinical evidence confirms that GcMAF shows multiple powerful anti-cancer effects that have significant therapeutical impact on most tumors including breast, prostate, and kidney. GcMAF is created in the body by the release of two sugar molecules from a GcProtein molecule.

In conclusion, GcMAF restores the energetic balance in the cell. Cancer cells driven by sugar metabolism become healthy oxygen driven cells, so tumor cells no longer behave as parasitic organisms. GcMAF stimulates macrophages to consume the cancer cells and cells invaded by viruses. This stimulation of the immune system and the anti-angiogenetic effect surrounding the tumor is beneficial in cancer and several neurological disorders like autism, chronic fatigue, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's, and it is available to the general public.


In light of Dr. James Bradstreet and Dr. Nicholas Gongalez work and application of GcMAF in their clinical work, along with their recent deaths, I found the timing and announcement of this development interesting?

AstraZeneca to pay Inovio Pharma $727 mln to produce cancer vaccine
http://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/62820/astrazeneca-to-pay-inovio-pharma-727-mln-to-produce-cancer-vaccine-62820.html

AstraZeneca Plc (NYSE:AZN) advanced in New York trading after the second-largest U.K. drugmaker agreed to pay Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:INO) as much as $727.5 million for rights to an experimental cancer vaccine.

ADRs of the London-based company added 1 percent to $34.03 at 11:57 a.m. in New York, expanding gains this month to 2.4 percent. Shares of Inovio leaped 23 percent to $7.92.

The deal is the third AstraZeneca has clinched in less than a week to secure access to new strategically key tumor-fighting drugs.

AstraZeneca said its Medimmune unit will pay Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania-based Inovio $27.5 million up front and as much as $700 million if its medicine, which targets cancers caused by the human papillomavirus, reaches certain development and commercial milestones.


MedImmune will fund all development costs.

AstraZeneca said its MedImmune biotech unit would study INO-3112 in combination with other immunotherapy drugs.

INO-3112, which is in Phase I/II clinical trials for cervical and head and neck cancers, works by generating killer T-cell responses that are able to destroy HPV 16- and 18-driven tumors. The two HPV types are responsible for more than 70 percent of cervical cancer.

Inovio is entitled to receive up to double-digit tiered royalties on INO-3112 product sales.

AstraZeneca is seeking drugs it can combine with its stable of immune oncology products, designed to harness the body’s immune system to fight tumors.


“Today’s collaboration with Inovio leverages our deep internal expertise in the use of vaccines to drive antigen-specific T-cell responses,” said Dr. David Berman, Senior Vice President and Head of the Oncology Innovative Medicines unit, MedImmune.

“The unique combination of our broad immuno-oncology portfolio with Inovio’s T-cell- activating INO-3112, which enhances cancer specific killer T-cells, has the potential to deliver real clinical benefits for patients,” Dr. Berman added.

The deal follows other recent immuno-oncology tie-ups by AstraZeneca with Sosei subsidiary Heptares and Mirati.
 
It IS shocking & frightening what is playing out in front of us re doctors out to promote genuine healing/cures & the moves to institute the 'Decade of Vaccines'.

To put this in perspective, please consider the following from a pdf. doc I referenced in the Autoimmune thread (awaiting moderator posting approval):

Suppression of Oxygen/Ozone therapy

Edward J. McCabe:
Health journalist who reported success of oxygen therapy.
Sentenced to 3 years in prison on the pre-text of tax evasion 1999 (and served 2 years).

Dr William F. Koch:
Medical doctor, Professor of chemistry, histology and physiology.
Inventor of "Glyoxylide catalyst" cure for cancer. Sued by FDA but was acquitted after
600 doctors testified in his favour. Died of poisoning, 1967.

Dr. F.M. Eugene Blass:
Developer of "Homozon™" (the original oxygen therapy
product) - murdered outside his house, same year and month as Dr Koch.

Dr Basil Earle Wainright:
Physicist - inventor of polyatomic apheuresis oxygen therapy.
Imprisoned for 4 years. Claims he survived six assassination attempts whilst in prison.

Dr George A. Freibott, IV.
President of the American Naturopathic Association,
consultant for International Association for Oxygen Therapy, US Government approved
and internationally accepted expert witness on oxygen/oxidation therapies. Survived
numerous assassination attempts and several anonymous phone calls threatening him
with his life.

Dr James Boyce:
Turned 254 people HIV+ to HIV- using ozone therapy: Charged with
using unproven methods and sentenced to 5 years in prison. Had his medical license
revoked.

Ken Thiefault sold ozone generators:
Sentenced to 7 years in prison for making medical
claims for ozone generators. His wife was sentenced to three years.

Suppression of the Rife Technology

Royal Raymond Rife: broken legally, mentally, financially. Slid into alcoholism &
depression after 1939 trial. Equipment rendered unusable by components
mysteriously "disappearing". Died in ignominy in 1971 from alcohol/valium
overdose.

Dr Millbank Johnson: refused to be silenced over success of Rife treatment - died of
poisoning in 1944 just as he was planning to call a press conference announcing the
spectacular results of the Rife generator.

Dr James Couche: refused to be intimidated, silenced or stop treating using Rife
generator - struck off.

Dr Raymond Seidel: published favourable paper on Rife in influential Smithsonian
report 1945. Following this he was the victim of an assassination attempt after which he
never spoke publicly of Rife again.

Dr's Cooperson & Clayton:
Equipment and lab notes confiscated by US government.
Both died in 1940 officially from committing suicide. Pathological reports showed they
had actually been poisoned.

Professor I. Kendall, Professor I. Rosenow
(prominent bacteriologists who verified
Rife's theories): Accused of being liars and charlatans by their peers.

John Crane: (tried to revive Rife's work in the 1950-60's): sentenced to 10 years in
prison (and served 3). On release continued his work but was still subjected to
harassment, legal threats and obstructionism.

Doctors sympathetic to Rife & Rife/Crane technology: silenced by AMA harassment/intimidation.

The AMA: aggressively opposed the technology only after its chairman's attempt to buy
the rights to it was rejected (what a coincidence!).

Other pioneers of alternative treatment:


Dr Max Gerson: Used natural treatment regime to cure cancer, Multiple Sclerosis and
other disease. AMA harassment forced him to close clinic and re-open in Mexico.

Harry Hoxsey: (cured cancer using herbs). Mentally and financially ruined by legal
proceedings and AMA harassment. Arrested 157 times in 16 months. Died in suspicious
circumstances, possibly murdered.

Rene Caisse: (also cured cancer using herbs). The 'Canadian Ministry of Health and
Welfare' had the whole of the records destroyed immediately after her death in 1978.
These records detailed thousands of cured patients.

Dr Lawrence Burton: Fraudulently accused of spreading AIDS contaminated serum
forcing the Bahamian government to close it down under American pressure.

Dr Stanislaw Burzynski: Ordered by FDA to stop development of his highly effective
'anti-neoplaston' treatment programme. Raided and had all his scientific, medical and
personal records seized which were never returned.

Gaston Naessens: microbiologist - still alive and working with Rife type microscope
today. Developer of 714X cancer treatment - Prosecuted for fraud and driven out of
France. Prosecuted and threatened again with life imprisonment in Canada but was
acquitted.

Dr. Andrew C. Ivy: world-renowned medical researcher. Researcher of "Krebiozen"
(harmless chemical compound which was claimed to have observable, often curative
benefits in 70% of cancer cases) suspended from membership of the Chicago Medical
Society, removed from the vice presidency of the University of Illinois, and had his
"resignation" accepted by both national cancer societies. AMA declared Krebiozen
"worthless" six weeks after he published his research (1951) even though a properly
conducted trial would take 3-5 years, dismissed all of his conclusions, discredited his
research methods and suggested that his belief in the compound was due to senility.

Other pioneers of bio-electrical treatment & life energies


J.C. Burnett: His "electronic medicine research lab" was burnt to the ground while he
was visiting Rife in 1939, just before the Rife technology itself was attacked.

Harry Oldfield: dismissed when he wanted to publish his research demonstrating the
damage done to the human energy field by chemotherapy treatment.

Upton, Knuth and Armstrong: inventors of the "homeotron" - forced into bankruptcy.

Dr Albert Abrams: inventor of the "Oscilloclast", a forerunner of the Rife generator.
Slated by the establishment. Denounced as a quack and a chalatan in 18 consecutive
issues of "The Scientific American". Died in shame and ignominy.

George Lahovsky: Inventor of the "multi-wave oscillator". Run over by a car and died
1943.

Bill Morre (researcher and author): fled into retreat.

George De La Warre: Nearly bankrupted by legal proceedings.

Dr Franz Anton Mesmer: used magnets for healing - struck off.

Ruth Drown: inventor of the "Radio Vision Instrument" and "Homo-vibra ray
instrument" - committed suicide.

Wilhelm Reich: inventor of "Orgone Energy Accumulator" - died in prison.

C.M. Allen: driven insane.

Dr M.K. Jessup: reporter of the infamous "Philadelphia Experiment" - suicide/murdered.


So, the 3D/4D STS forces have been effectively 'busy' for some time.

Knowledge Protects - keep reading the autoimmune thread.
 
Erin Elizabeth interviews the family of the late Dr. Jefferey Bradstreet, a prominent and beloved autism researcher who devotedly helped his patients and worked tirelessly. What did the media do upon his death? Shamefully smeared him and created a false "anti-vaxxer" narrative, exploiting his death. Worse, they claimed that he killed people he worked with.... His family sets the record straight and talks about all current investigations, GcMAF and internet rumors as they still wade through the grief.


Dr. Jeffrey Bradstreet’s Family Breaks Silence for the First Time Since His Tragic Death
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2015/08/dr-jeffrey-bradstreets-family-breaks.html
 
Posted yesterday by Erin Elizabeth of HealthNutNews:

10th Doctor (Osteopath) Found Slain in Her Home
http://www.healthnutnews.com/10th-doctor-osteopath-found-slain-in-her-home/

It brings me no joy to break another story on a doctor being killed. In fact, I really didn’t want to write this story, but I’ve lost count how many people have asked me the last day or two when I’ll be covering it. My heart goes out to the friends and family.

I started an unintentional series about doctors (mostly holistic) who were killed in the last few months, all in Eastern States, mostly in the South East.

From the article on the tragic death of Mary Bovier DO

The death of a Sharon, Pa. doctor is being treated as a homicide investigation. The 65-year old victim was found in her Sharon home early Wednesday morning.

The Sharon police chief says the report of a deceased person in the home on Davis Street was called in shortly after 7 a.m.

“On arrival officers felt that something didn’t look right, she appeared to be stabbed, detectives were called out immediately and at this point in time we’re treating this as a homicide,” said Chief Gerald Smith.

The victim is identified as Osteopath, Dr. Mary Rene Bovier. Detectives say an official cause of death will be made following an autopsy. Chief Smith said a person of interest was being interviewed.

“I can tell you that the person we’re talking to is a close friend of hers,” Smith said.

The close friend lives across the street from Bovier and was the person who made the call to police. Authorities did obtain a search warrant for the friends house, but the unidentified man was released after being interviewed.

State records show that Dr. Bovier’s license was still active through July of 2017.

The doctors name still appears at her former office at Tiffany Center in Boardman, but people there say she hasn’t practiced at that office in about two years

Varying reports say her age to be 63 and others say 65. Some say it’s a close friend of interest who lived next door. Others call him a boyfriend. Authorities say they’re working to make an arrest, but none have been made yet. Even if the male friend is arrested it’s innocent until proven guilty so I’m including this in the series. At the time of this publishing we can’t see of any arrest that has been made.

I’ve maintained in every article I write that I don’t know whether these deaths are related. We knew several of the doctors who were killed- many here in Florida. While we did not know Dr. Bovier it doesn’t make it any less sad that she was murdered.

As you notice the quote above, it says she worked at the Tiffany Center in Boardman, which is actually Ohio, as she lived near the Pennsylvania Ohio border in the town of Sharon, Ohio which is 70 miles or so NW of Pittsburgh. Dr Bovier’s death was only the 3rd so far this year.

- See more at: http://www.healthnutnews.com/10th-doctor-osteopath-found-slain-in-her-home/#sthash.I11zcRw9.dpuf
 
According to this blog article, Immuno Biotech Laboratories in the UK, with David Noakes as CEO was the main supplier of GcMAF.

The facility that was raided by the MHRA was not the production and manufacturing laboratories but a larger building being renovated to upgrade " research and production of the product, built to better standards than their previous one." Immuno Biotech has a biochemical scientist with a PhD and a microbiologist on staff. Wickham Laboratories test for sterility, with nine tests carried out on every batch.


http://www.lynnemctaggart.com/blog/305-zero-dark-dirty

As I mentioned in these pages before, on 3 February of this year, 10 investigators from the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) arrived unannounced at the new laboratory of Immune Biotech in Milton, Cambridgeshire, four of them wearing bullet-proof vests, and in front of the two terrified female scientists, confiscated 10,000 vials of the naturally occurring glycoprotein called GcMAF before closing down the facility.

The confiscated goods are not officially a ‘medicine’, but a glycoprotein, produced naturally by the body.

According to David Noakes, Immuno Biotech’s CEO, all the claims about their production process are invalid because the 10,000 vials were in fact produced elsewhere. Immune Biotech had just moved laboratories over Christmas, he says, into a larger facility meant to house research and production of the product, built to better standards than their previous one.

“Although the manufacturing equipment and all existing stock had been moved and stored, it was a shell of a building which we were converting,” he says.

Builders had not finishing transforming the facility, which had been offices, into a laboratory. Furthermore, the laboratory’s chief scientist Rod Smith had had a heart attack during Christmas and was still at home recuperating. No manufacture could proceed without him.


The MHRA originally referred to the facility as a ‘makeshift lab’ and the scientists are as ‘hobbyists with a degree in real ale brewing’.

The laboratory where the vials were actually produced was in fact a purpose built campus of laboratories in Cambridge’s Innovation Science Park, says Noakes, and the chief scientist Rod Smith is a biochemical scientist with a PhD.

Marco Ruggiero, the Italian doctor who discovered the importance of this glycoprotein and cancer, is a microbiologist once hired by the US’s National Institutes of Health to investigate the cause of AIDS and treatment of cancer.


The only reason he does not have GMP certificates, he says, is cost – it costs some £5 million to get such a license, he says. ‘Every batch is checked by Wickham Laboratories using rigorous tests for sterility. There are nine tests carried out on every batch,” says Noakes.

Worldwide supplier

Up until the February raid, Immune Biotech had been supplying hundreds of clinics around the world and more than 9000 patients, according to Noakes. As a resident of Guernsey, where he had his head offices, he had also supplied some 170 Guernsey residents suffering from a variety of illnesses with GcMAF, purportedly for free.

For years, Noakes had been in constant contact with various ministers about his product, according to Commerce Minister Kevin Stewart, even setting up a special private conference for them, during which scientists would present evidence about GcMAF. Until February, they tolerated importation of GcMAF for their residents, so long as it was not supplied for commercial gain.

In fact, Ed Freestone, Guernsey’s chief pharmacist, has been quoted as saying ‘There is no current information suggesting the product has caused direct harm to anyone’s health.’

Product banned

After the raid, Guernsey authorities have now banned both importation and exportation of the product, leaving about 100 patients with serious illnesses, including cancer, without the product they claim is saving their lives.

These patients have now formed a ‘Cure Cancer support Group’ and took out an advertisement in the Guernsey Herald, pleading with the HSSD to allow them to continue to receive supplies of GcMAF.

The long arm of Big Pharma

Drug company influence is now increasingly inherent in drug regulatory agencies. In the US, the pharmaceutical industry now largely funds the FDA. Like the FDA, the UK government has handed over regulatory financial muscle to Big Pharma.

This is not the first time Noakes has encountered official harassment. In July, NatWest closed his business bank account, forcing him to move his funds to Shroders Bank Guernsey. But following the recent raid, this account has also been closed, only this time the bank has not returned the £1.2 million, which Noakes doesn’t believe he will ever get back from the UK government.

Noakes has no recourse to sue the UK government while it holds all his money.


If the money is not returned, Noakes is likely to have to agree to a takeover of Immuno Biotech by a competitor in a European countray with kinder regulatory laws.
 
" the laboratory’s chief scientist Rod Smith had had a heart attack during Christmas "

It's hard not to say 'hmmmm' when taking in all the facts of what is occurring. Of note, this posted on Sott concerning the prominent heart attack victim among the mysterious deaths of holistic doctors:

http://www.sott.net/article/300520-Holistic-MD-Nick-Gonzalez-who-died-suddenly-said-he-d-heard-big-pharma-hopes-he-gets-hit-by-a-bus

"The keynote speaker at this year's Whole Life Expo is Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez of New York, one of a small number of doctors whose success in treating cancer exceeds that of mainstream oncology by a wide margin. His work thereby puts the lie to pharmaceutical propaganda that fuels a cancer industry bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars while fooling millions of desperate and bewildered patients. "I've been told drug companies know about my work but hope I get hit by a bus," Dr. Gonzalez observes wryly."
 
Information has surfaced of an activist - Fiona O’Leary, founder of Ireland-based Autistic Rights Together and her Husband Tim notifying the FDA and authorities - to investigate First Immune and David Noakes, then Dr. Bradstreet.

Private eyes hired to probe death of Buford autism researcher Dr. Jeff Bradstreet
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2015/jul/13/details-trickle-out-in-case-of-late-buford-autism/

July 14, 2015 - An attorney representing the family said Tuesday several private investigators had been hired to look into the doctor’s fatal June shooting. They are being paid from the $32,000-plus donated by supporters of Bradstreet who have disregarded police statements that he committed suicide hours after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration raid on his Commerce Drive office.

#The FDA and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta, which reportedly initiated the investigation into Bradstreet, have declined to comment on the case. But a search warrant released to the Daily Post reveals what took the agents there.

#They were looking for evidence related to Globulin component Macrophage Activating Factor, better known as GcMAF, an immune-system therapy, criticized as potentially harmful by some and as a possible cure to cancer, HIV and autism by others.

Bradstreet was a longtime critic of the pharmaceutical establishment. Those closer to the mainstream meanwhile have called into question his methods for some 15 years, calling him a fringe conspiracy theorist.

#“I do not wish to be disrespectful but I feel passionate about exposing the truth behind Dr. Bradstreet and the awful unregulated, unproven and dangerous ‘Treatments’ he used on Autistic children and adults,” Fiona O’Leary, founder of Ireland-based Autistic Rights Together, said in an emailed statement to the Daily Post. “It is very tragic he died in such awful circumstances but people need to know the truth behind his clinic and the dangerous ‘Treatments’ he was giving to Autistic children and adults.”

#O’Leary, who regularly speaks out against researchers in the anti-vaccine community, said she had reported the doctor to the FDA herself.


(Note: Check out Fiona O’Leary posted comments at the end of the article.)

_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3143238/Family-cries-foul-suicide-anti-vaccination-doctor-Jeff-Bradstreet-open-community-fund-investigation.html

Fiona O'Leary of Autistic Rights Together [ART], responded to Bradstreet's death and the call for an investigation into his death.

She said: 'While it is very sad to hear of the death of Dr Bradstreet in such tragic circumstances, it is important to consider his position as one of the world's leading practitioners in the field of bio-medical treatments for autism.

O'Leary continued: 'Many of these so called 'treatments' are unlicensed and unproven to be of any benefit to autistic people, indeed many can have serious and dangerous side effects on an individual's health and well being.


Autistic Rights Together
_http://www.autisticrightstogether.ie/index.php/2-uncategorised/23-dr-jeff-bradstreet-hero

I wanted to say a few words regarding Dr. Bradstreet and the 'Treatments' he used on Autistic people.

I came across this picture on the support group for Dr. Bradstreet claiming he was a Hero and a Scientist!

I do not wish to be disrespectful but I feel passionate about exposing the truth behind Dr. Bradstreet and the awful unregulated, unproven and dangerous 'Treatments' he used on Autistic children and adults.

I have been following Dr. Bradstreet and his unethical ' Treatments ' for the past year now and through my campaign work discovered he was responsible for administering very dangerous 'Treatments ' to Autistic people.

Among them were B12 shots, Chelation, HBOT, Stem Cell therapy, Fecal Implants, Cannabis therapy, GcMAF and many other quack ' Treatments '

I have just read a great article by Emily Willingham which mentions the search warrant issued by the FDA that led to Dr. Bradstreet's clinic being raided by the authorities a few weeks ago.

Please read full article below.

Here's Why Authorities Searched The Offices Of Controversial Autism Doctor Bradstreet

I felt sure that the search warrant would be connected to GcMAF and it was! I am aware of this as I have been engaging with the authorities for the past year regarding Dr. Bradstreet and quack 'Treatments ' There are investigations into GcMAF as we speak!

I myself reported Dr. Bradstreet's involvement with GcMAF to the FDA and their colleagues the MHRA in the UK.

We know Dr. Bradstreet was linked to David Noakes and First Immune and Bradstreet was the key spokesperson who delivered GcMAF to the Autistic community.


We also know that First Immune and David Noakes are being investigated by the authorities and more recently we learned of the shocking news of 5 deaths linked to their First Immune clinic in Switzerland which offered GcMAF as a 'Treatment' for all diseases and sadly offered as a 'Treatment' for Autism too.

David Noakes and Dr. Bradstreet recommended that Autistic children go to this clinic in Switzerland for GcMAF 'Treatment' at a cost of £5000 a week!

David Noakes claimed he could 'cure' Autism in a week with intense GcMAF 'Treatment' at this clinic!

So putting the puzzle together!

First Immune clinic which Dr. Bradstreet was connected to is in serious trouble with ongoing investigations as we speak!

I know this to be true as I am involved in these investigations with the authorities.


Then we have the news of these 5 deaths associated with the clinic in Switzerland.

The story of the deaths in Switzerland broke the same day Dr. Bradstreet took his own life.

It is very tragic he died in such awful circumstances but people need to know the truth behind his clinic and the dangerous 'Treatments' he was giving to Autistic children and adults.

Autistic children and adults are being experimented on and tortured with these inhumane and unregulated 'Treatments'

To be silent on this issue now would be wrong and to say Dr. Bradstreet is a hero is quite frankly disturbing.

I hope that the investigations into these unregulated quack ' Treatments ' will lead to legislation to protect the Autistic community and respect for our HUMAN RIGHTS!

Thanks for reading.
Fiona O'Leary

Âûtistic Advocate

Fiona is a formidable autistic advocate with many published articles and media appearances and mentions. Fiona tirelessly investigates and raises awareness of abusive practices perpetrated on Âûtistic people. Fiona has been relentlessly lifting the curtain on MMS and GcMaf practices. Fiona also heads up Autistic Rights Together an organisation based in Ireland pursuing autistic rights as human rights.

Fiona is a proud autistic woman with autistic children, a talented singer songwriter with a relentless passion for justice for all people. Fiona's work in Autistic advocacy has been instrumental in bringing to light much injustice against autistic people.

Fiona's online groups can be found:
_www.autisticrightstogether.ie
_ART on Facebook
_Fiona O'leary Autistic Defence Unpaid
_Facebook
_Twitter

Fiona O'Leary on GcMaf,MMS, Dr Bradstreet, Amanda Mary Jewell etc
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQKRQP8OL-c

12 minute video - Fiona discusses abusive Autism Treatments and Peddlers with Tim O'Leary

Photo - Fiona O'Leary
_http://autisticabuseawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Fiona-pic-by-des.jpg

Criminal investigation into Swiss GcMaf clinic
http://guernseypress.com/news/2015/07/09/criminal-investigation-into-swiss-gcmaf-clinic/

July 9, 2015 - The First Immune clinic in Bussigny, run by local company Immuno Biotech, has been closed down while the Swiss authorities look into its operation and practices.

Switzerland’s medicines regulator, Swissmedic, claimed that the GcMaf it had been supplying to the clinic’s patients was not authorised in the country.

However, Immuno Biotech chief executive David Noakes, pictured, said there was no link between any deaths and the protein product and he believed that it was licensed.

In the Comment section:

Aeschylus
July 10, 2015 9:09 pm

Let's have a look at some of the nonsense here:

1. The GEP writes, "The First Immune clinic in Bussigny, run by local company Immuno Biotech" yet the article that Joshua shows us says, (with thanks to Google translate) "For the institution in question, First Immune SA". An "SA" is a Swiss company so clearly any liability lies with a Swiss company, not a Guernsey company. Well done GEP for sensationalising the issue and trying to make it local;

2. Joshua's article says, "all five patients have all gone through the private clinic of Bussigny. Reportedly, it is essentially foreign nationals suffering from terminal cancer". Read it. They were suffering from terminal cancer!! They were the walking dead. If First Immune SA could have helped them or extended their lifespan by a month or two or more then surely this would have been a blessing, not a crime?

3. A quote from the article, "First Immune is not officially registered in Switzerland. For us, it therefore does not exist" says the officials. It's a Swiss company for gods sake, how can it not exist in Switzerland??

Let's not all rush to conclusions here. After all, this is just an investigation so far.

On the other hand, what about all of the people who believe in gcmaf and who have been cured/helped by it according to their testimony?


Trevor Hockey
July 16, 2015 12:42 pm

Normally agree pretty much with everything you say, but must point out that how can you pay your bills when your bank account is frozen.?

It is interesting that Southampton Hospital is raising money for an Immunobiology facility, is that what David Noakes has been pioneering for some time.?

I have no axe to grind here, I attended one meeting at St. Pierre Park purely as an observer but I saw people who were convinced that GcMaf was doing them some good. I still think that HSSD were instrumental in many people with serious medical conditions losing hope.
 
While looking into Fiona O'Leary's activist organizations in Ireland, I was surprised to learn - seven of the top ten largest Pharmaceutical Companies are located in Ireland.

Ireland is where seven of the top pharmaceutical companies have their operations.
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/latest-moves-mean-ireland-has-seven-of-top-10-pharma-giants-29452531.html

Key sector characteristics:

• Ireland is the No. 1 European location for international pharmaceutical investment.
• Over 30 FDA approved pharma / biopharma plants are located in Ireland.
• Eight of the top 10 global pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies have integrated manufacturing operations in Ireland.
• Six out of ten of the world's top selling drugs are now produced in Ireland.
• In 2009, exports of pharmaceutical and medicinal products exceeded €19.5 billion, making Ireland one of the largest net exporters of pharmaceuticals in the world.
• Using the broader pharmachem measure, exports in 2009 exceeded €47 billion, or 56% of all Irish exports.
• The pharmaceutical industry in Ireland directly employs over 24,000 people, with a further 25,000 employed in the provision of services to the sector.

Listing of the top ten pharma companies operating in Ireland:
http://www.getreskilled.com/top-10-pharma-and-med-device-companies-in-ireland


http://www.rcsismj.com/4th-edition/pharm/
1 According to the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Ireland, the estimated replacement value of the Irish pharmaceutical sector is more than €40 billion. Furthermore, 20% of research and development in Ireland goes towards research and development of chemicals and chemical products Furthermore, 20% of research and development in Ireland goes towards research and development of chemicals and chemical products.2 However, the industry’s research integrity and overall benefit to the public has constantly been questioned. Some argue that although newer drugs may be superior to existing ones, the exponential increase in prices imposes an unnecessary burden of expense. Others counter that the long-term benefits outweigh increasing costs, since even small improvements in current drugs can lead to scientific breakthroughs down the road. Compounding the controversial role of pharmaceutical companies are those of researchers and prescribing physicians – are they co-operative conspirators or consumer crusaders?
 
The roughly two-minute video clip, which has been posted to YouTube, reveals the true healing power of GcMAF, a human protein that the body makes naturally but that some people lack or can’t produce in adequate volume.

By delivering an activated version of this substance intravenously, scientists have shown that the immune system can be fully invigorated to destroy cancer cells on its own without the need for chemotherapy or radiation.

“Your GcMAF empowers your body to cure itself,” explains the website GcMAF.se, operated by First Immune. “In a healthy person your own GcMAF has 11 actions discovered so far, including two on cells, three excellent effects on the brain, and 6 on cancer. Amongst these it acts as a ‘director’ of your immune system.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WZrnCcH24

As you’ll notice in the above video, GcMAF serves as the energized mechanism for macrophages to target and eliminate breast cancer cells. The incredible mechanistic action of this substance is shown in amazing clarity, and is further described in an associated paper entitled “Multifaceted immunotherapeutic effects of GcMAF on human breast cancer cells.”

“Time lapse photography over 60 hours shows the cancer monolayer … first changing from corrugated to smooth … as the cancer is destroyed,” reveals First Immune. “[T]hen the cancer ‘fingers’ are also eaten and destroyed by the macrophages.”

http://www.naturalnews.com/050972_GcMAF_cancer_cells_Bradstreet.html


GcMAF doesn’t actually cure cancer, of course — it merely provides the ammunition needed by the body’s own immune system to eradicate and cure cancer itself, naturally.

“GcMAF and/or oral Colostrum MAF macrophage activation therapy is indicated in the treatment of any diseases where there is immune dysfunction or where the immune system is compromised,” explains the website of a clinic out of Japan that sells an oral form of GcMAF.
 
The GcMAF youtube video posted by Angelburst29 that originated on Natural News has appeared on other alternative websites. Among them:

_http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2015/07/colostrum-another-reason-for-the-war-on-raw-milk/

which has the following listed:

“Oral GcMAF is a form of GcMAF produced from bovine colostrum by Saisei Mirai which was developed in collaboration with Tokushima University.”…

Gc-MAF and/or oral Colostrum MAF macrophage activation therapy is indicated in the treatment of any diseases where there is immune dysfunction or where the immune system is compromised …

The above are followed by this link:
_http://www.naturalnews.com/050553_Dr_Bradstreet_GcMAF_cancer_therapy.html

Very extensive info at the link, some of which has been posted here or the autoimmune thread I believe. This was new to me:
"There are 142 eminent scientists who have published GcMAF research papers on the US National Library of Medicine alone."
and
"GcMAF is extracted and isolated; its a 24 step process, and at the end it must have tests to prove its sterility and activity. (If it does not come with published tests, its probably not GcMAF.) One GcMAF has been tested in universities, laboratories and clinics, where, as a result of the testing, consistent activity and sterility have always been found, and been the subject of 40 scientific research papers."

On a personal note, info from the above link makes it pretty clear that my parent/relatives/friends/acquaintances who did or are receiving standard cancer treatments suffered/and or died needlessly.

cont.
Can Colostrum help Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
http://www.thehealthybeaver.com/Downloads/fatigue.pdf

From the above:
"In my own personal practice, I have found that fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome respond quickly to the use of colostrum. [...]One particular woman had been bed ridden for 17 years with both chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Within weeks after she started using colostrum, she was out of bed and within a few months, she was symptom free. Now she works 8 to 10 hours a day, without any of her former symptoms. Another woman had been treated for 12 years with conventional therapies and no relief. She also was bed ridden and digressing when she began taking colostrum. After only 1 week, she was able to eliminate all of her pain medication and within 6 months she resumed a normal life.

With fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, I usually suggest people take 6 capsules a day and triple that dosage over a period of 3 weeks. Since both
of these conditions are typically accompanied with a low metabolic rate and low thyroid function, I always suggest that the first dose of colostrum be taken
immediately upon rising. Colostrum has some really profound balancing effects on the thyroid. " [Thomas E. Stone, ND, CNHP of Immune-Tree]

I was intrigued by oral Colostrum MAF macrophage activation therapy and found:

Oral Colostrum Macrophage-activating Factor for Serious Infection and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Three Case Reports
http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/35/8/4545.short?rss=1

Abstract

Background: Gc protein-derived macrophage-activating factor (GcMAF) immunotherapy has been steadily advancing over the last two decades. Oral colostrum macrophage-activating factor (MAF) produced from bovine colostrum has shown high macrophage phagocytic activity. GcMAF-based immunotherapy has a wide application for use in treating many diseases via macrophage activation or for use as supportive therapy. Results: Three case studies demonstrate that oral colostrum MAF can be used for serious infection and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) without adverse effects. Conclusion: We demonstrate that colostrum MAF shows promising clinical results in patients with infectious diseases and for symptoms of fatigue, which is common in many chronic diseases.

and

Degalactosylated/Desialylated Bovine Colostrum Induces Macrophage Phagocytic Activity Independently of Inflammatory Cytokine Production
http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/35/8/4487.short?rss=1

Abstract

Background/Aim: Colostrum contains antibodies, such as immunoglobulin G (IgG), immunoglobulin A (IgA) and immunoglobulin M (IgM), and, therefore, has potent immunomodulating activity. In particular, IgA has an O-linked sugar chain similar to that in the group-specific component (Gc) protein, a precursor of the Gc protein-derived macrophage-activating factor (GcMAF). In the present study, we investigated the macrophage-activating effects of degalactosylated/desialylated bovine colostrum. Results: We detected the positive band in degalactosylated/ desialylated bovine colostrum by western blotting using Helix pomatia agglutinin lectin. We also found that degalactosylated/ desialylated bovine colostrum could significantly enhance the phagocytic activity of mouse peritoneal macrophages in vitro and of intestinal macrophages in vivo. Besides, degalactosylated/desialylated bovine colostrum did not mediate the production of inflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interleukin-1β (IL-1β). Conclusion: Similar to the use of GcMAF, degalactosylated/desialylated bovine colostrum can be used as a potential macrophage activator for various immunotherapies.


GcMAF & oral Colostrum MAF macrophage activation therapy appear to be very potent game-changing factors in the world of medicine. Is the genie too far out of the bottle to be shoved back in no matter how many medical professionals are threatened/killed?
 
A rebuttal article by Dr. Rima E. Laibow, in reply to comments made by activist Fiona O’Leary (link below) in regard to Autism, as a another kind of "normal."

Autism: Neutralizing the Deadly Normalizers
http://veteranstruthnetwork.com/index.php/component/k2/item/388-autism-neutralizing-the-deadly-normalizers

Is Autism just another way of being normal? Are non autistic people “Neurotypical” and those with autism merely “Neurodiverse”?

On the face of it this seems absurd. As you will see, when looking at the question more deeply, it is not only absurd but very dangerous. Of course, it is also hugely (and embarrassingly) both ego-gratifying for the “Make Me Feel Good By Denying Reality” crowd and a deceptive justification/excuse for damaging genes and lives through injection and other toxins without holding the perpetrators accountable.

When you normalize autism you also take away the assistance and services which are absolutely necessary to the victims who have been knowingly damage – sacrificed might be a better term – by governments and agencies whose servile relationship to the pharmaceutical industry has cost us – and them- their health and normal lives.

But if autism is just another kind of normal then there is nothing to support, nothing to treat, nothing to fix”. We don’t have to stop what we are doing. Fuggedaboutit! Nothing to See Here. Move Along. .

I am a Child and Adolescent psychiatrist with more than 45 years of experience. I have seen the rise of autism from a rare condition (1/10,000) to a common one (1/55 or worse) and I have watched the supposed “better diagnostic tools” touted and sold. I have treated large numbers of autistic children and their families and brought about fundamental changes in many of them to return them to the land of our consensus communication and reality, so that they could give and receive love and enter into their own life well and fully. So I have a very strong opinion on the question based on extensive review and understanding of neurology, psychology and biochemistry, decades of clinical practice, common sense and a keen political awareness which allows me to smell a shill or a fool from many miles away.

I smell one.

Fiona O’Leary, who is herself an autistic person (she says she carries the diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome) and whose two sons are autistic (vaccinated) says that autism is normal and that any attempt to fix it is wrong and should be forbidden.

Recently, Richie Allen, www.RichieAllenShow.com, asked me to comment on the position of his guest, Fiona O’Leary, that autism is just another shade of normal and that attempts to fix it were both unnecessary and constituted child abuse. I was happy to oblige.

It should be noted that I volunteered to appear on the show with her to discuss this but she refused saying that she was not interested in doing joint interviews. I should think not, given her illogical and unscientific position. It would be hard to sustain it in the face of facts and neurology.

Autism is a term that refers to a cluster of dysfunctions and impairments. None of them is normal. Some people are more severely impaired than other, accounting for the concept of the autism “spectrum”.


Cancers are staged (generally I, II, III and IV) based on their severity and how pervasive they are. In the same way, autism is staged based on its severity and how pervasive the dysfunction is. Being politically correct and calling cancer another shade of normal is as absurd as calling autism another shade of normal. They are both diseases that come from deeper, underlying mechanism being dysfunctional.

Think about what Ms. O’Leary and her ilk would have us believe.

When autistic people are unable to speak or communicate verbally except in the most rudimentary fashion if at all, how can that be called normal? In what way is losing all speech and being unable to use speech even vaguely normal development? Tell that to the parents of a now mute child who regressed after vaccination. See what they have to say about it.

Autistic people frequently engage in self-stimulating behavior for significantly extended periods of time so that no outside stimuli can penetrate their abnormal and obsessive stimulatory patterns to the total exclusion of all input or communication. In what way is being obsessively focused on self-stimulation to the exclusion of everyone and everything else even vaguely normal development? How about the tantrums and violence that can occur when the self-stimulation is interrupted? Tell that to the parents of a now self-stimulating child who regressed after vaccination. See what they have to say about it.

Autistic people are often afflicted by learning disabilities so severe that the accomplishment of literacy, mathematics and other academic skills is either totally or nearly totally unavailable to them, leading to no academic or occupational possibilities other than the most rudimentary for some, but not all, frankly autistic people. In what way is mental retardation, even with occasional spotty sparing of unrelated functions (such as the ability to remember dates or highway designations) even vaguely normal development? Tell that to the parents of a now retarded child who regressed after vaccination. See what they have to say about it.

Autistic people frequently are stimulus/touch aversive so that even the tenderest touch is unbearable and unwelcome to them. They are often unable to tolerate hugging, cuddling or other demonstrations of affection although later, when retrieved from their autism, they can tell us how they longed for that touch and love. In what way is being cut off from the basic human and mammalian capacity to show and receive touch and love, which is essential for normal; development and life, even vaguely normal development? Tell that to the parents of a now isolated child who regressed after vaccination. See what they have to say about it.

Autism is, indeed, a neurological condition secondary to toxicity. It, like Alzheimer's Disease and Post Traumatic Head Injury, are conditions which cause serious behavioral and other functional deficits. To say that it is in any way normal is exactly like saying that a heart attack, senile dementia, cancer or diabetes are normal. Tell that to the parents of a now ill child who regressed after vaccination. See what they have to say about it.

To normalize autism is to bury, either intentionally or for personal reasons, the stark and tragic reality: Autism rates are rising exponentially because we are overburdening the detoxification capacity of our children with voluntarily introduced toxins for the accomplishment of other agendas, sacrificing our children for the sake of those agendas.

Before the advent of the current onslaught of vaccines in pregnancy, infancy and childhood, about 1 child in 10,000 was autistic (1970).

The epidemiology is very clear: skyrocketing vaccination rates correlate directly and dramatically with skyrocketing autism rates. Our incidence of first day mortality, infant mortality and autism are all the highest in the world. Our vaccination rate is also the highest in the world.

To say that autism is not a disease because it is a neurological condition indicates one of several things about the person who says it:
1.The speaker has no either no scientific background or no scruples. They have absolutely no idea what having a disease or condition means. They do not know, or care, that every disease or condition ALWAYS has a physical representation underlying it, whether or not that underlying cause is known. Of course, that underlying cause may well have been created by environmental or other inputs.

OR 2.The speaker has a hidden, competing agenda and is involved in a whitewash effort to make an inconvenient and/or costly reality go away (as in loss of the vaccine market or agrochemical sales) if widely known and appreciated. In short, we are hearing the words of a shill.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

Richie debates Fiona O’Leary on MMS, GcMaf and Vaccine Links To Autism
_http://richieallenshow.com/richie-debates-fiona-oleary-on-mms-gcmaf-and-vaccine-links-to-autism/

Fiona O'Leary on BBC Radio Guernsey Sat 29th Aug 2015 discussing the sale and use of the unregulated blood product GcMaf on Autistic Children and the need for action to bring in legislation to tackle the issue effectively.
_https://soundcloud.com/timothymartinii/fiona-bbc-guernsey
 
angelburst29 said:
A rebuttal article by Dr. Rima E. Laibow, in reply to comments made by activist Fiona O’Leary (link below) in regard to Autism, as a another kind of "normal."

Autism: Neutralizing the Deadly Normalizers
http://veteranstruthnetwork.com/index.php/component/k2/item/388-autism-neutralizing-the-deadly-normalizers

Is Autism just another way of being normal? Are non autistic people “Neurotypical” and those with autism merely “Neurodiverse”?

On the face of it this seems absurd. As you will see, when looking at the question more deeply, it is not only absurd but very dangerous. Of course, it is also hugely (and embarrassingly) both ego-gratifying for the “Make Me Feel Good By Denying Reality” crowd and a deceptive justification/excuse for damaging genes and lives through injection and other toxins without holding the perpetrators accountable.

When you normalize autism you also take away the assistance and services which are absolutely necessary to the victims who have been knowingly damage – sacrificed might be a better term – by governments and agencies whose servile relationship to the pharmaceutical industry has cost us – and them- their health and normal lives.

But if autism is just another kind of normal then there is nothing to support, nothing to treat, nothing to fix”. We don’t have to stop what we are doing. Fuggedaboutit! Nothing to See Here. Move Along. .

Autism is a term that refers to a cluster of dysfunctions and impairments. None of them is normal. Some people are more severely impaired than other, accounting for the concept of the autism “spectrum”. [/b]


Reviewing video interviews with Fiona O’Leary, founder of Ireland-based Autistic Rights Together, along with her activist Husband Tim, I noticed they use terms such as “Neurotypical” and “Neurodiverse” to describe behavior characteristics. I was curious, as to, where these catch-phases orginated and came across this recently posted article which gives some background on Autism and the use of the terms, Neurotypical and Neurodiverse. When ever I see these two words in an article or interview, I have yet to see any mention or reference to the possible "cause(s)" of Autism?

We've called autism a disease for decades. We were wrong.
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/31/9233295/autism-rights-kanner-asperger

Most people think of autism as a disease, a major impediment of which an increasing number of children are "victims." But over the past two decades, a growing number of adults on the autism spectrum, myself included, have rejected this frame and called for non-autistic "neurotypicals" to respect and accommodate "neurodiversity." We believe that autism is a natural and in many ways desirable variation in how people think, not a great evil to be stamped out.

To neurotypical people, this may seem like a shocking reversal. But as science journalist Steve Silberman writes in his new book NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, the man who discovered autism, Austrian psychiatrist Hans Asperger, conceived of it similarly, as a way of thinking that brings blessings as well as hardships. But then psychiatrist Leo Kanner claimed credit for Asperger's discovery and introduced a much harsher view of autism, paving the way for decades of brutal and abusive treatment.

Silberman and I spoke about the book, the history of autism, and the growth of the autism rights movement on Friday. An edited transcript follows. [...]

* An end quote in the interview....

"What's so interesting is that eventually a bridge was built between the autistic community and the larger disability rights community. Before that, autism was never considered in a disability rights context. When you had young adults who had been diagnosed in the '90s, they started to read about other disability rights groups and the fate of other disabled people. It was like, "Hey, wait a minute, this person is talking about my life, actually."

When people say "neurodiversity is just about high functioning people" — no it isn't. It's about disability rights. It's the bridge between the world of autism and the world of cross-disability activism. Disability activism is not about leaving the people in wheelchairs behind and only putting the pretty people on camera. Disability means everyone comes along, including the people who are "low-functioning."
 
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