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LeftishBrit

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2. Ugh. I am glad that the influence of such people is declining in the UK.
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:08 AM
Apr 2013

Sorry to the Americans on the forum, that apparently the general response of such people is to try for better luck in America.

If only the vaccination quacks were prepared to devote half as much of their attention to the serious problems that real pollutants create in the world, maybe they might do some good!

And while autistic people seem to be more susceptible than others to a wide variety of medical problems, it is certainly not the case that there is an extremely close relationship between autism and inflammatory bowel disease. Most autistic people don't have bowel disease, and most people with childhood onset inflammatory bowel disease (me, for example) don't have autism.

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