THE DANGER OF SCIENCE DENIAL a response

www.ted.com/talks/michael_specter_the_danger_of_science_denial.html 

I encourage you to take a look at this video as I am sure it's received many hits. I welcome your feedback on his viewpoint of vaccinations, GMO foods, and vitamins. I personally witnessed changes in my daughter's health after simply changing her diet rather then putting a steroid cream on her skin. My logic tells me, what we eat will have a large impact on our amazing miraculous bodies, which have a great capacity to heal when they are in a healthy state.

Finally, I can't help but question why our children have increased issues of allergies, cancers and psychiatric issues. Our children may not have measles, mumps and rubella yet what are our children suffering with today? Perhaps our "science" with GMO foods is getting to a point of thinking we are Gods capable of changing our world and environment to become a better place in reality are we too rapidly changing our world to place of destruction. 

To start a day tomorrow of not taking vitamins, eat foods that are GMs, eat packaged foods, buy any wonderful smelling cream and shampoo and give my children all their vaccinations (at 6months old) is a much easier life. Questioning all of these things and trying to find what the healthy answer is can be MUCH more challenging. I welcome you Michael, the challenge to prove me wrong, please provide me with your research and then let's have the scientists battle it out to find the right answer for our CHILDREN. In the end that is all I ask for, the truth of how our children can live their best life.

Here is my feedback: 

VITAMINS

Grant WB How Strong is the evidence that solar ultraviolet B and vitamin D reduce the risk of cancer? An examination using Hill's criteria for causality. Dermato-Endocrinology 2009; 1 (1):17-24

Grant WB, Cross HS, Garland CF, Gorham ED, Moan J, Peterlik M, Porojnicu AC, Reichrath J, Zittermann A. Estimated benefit of increased vitamin D status in reducing the economic burden of disease in Western Europe. Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 2009 Feb - Apr; 99(2-3);104-13

Linus Pauling (multiple Nobel Prize winner) his work and research on Vitamin C

Vitamin B12 Abram Hoffer Orthomolecular Medicine, his research and numerous patients he helped

van Tiggelen CJM, Peperkaml JPC, Tertoolen JFW: Vitamin B12 levels of cerebrospinal fluid in patients with organic mental disorders J Orthomolec Psych, 1982; 12:305-311

Karakula H, Opolska A, Kowal A, et al: Does diet affect mood? The significance of folic acid and homocystenine. Pol Merkur Lekarski, 2009; 26:136-141

Regland B, Johansson BV, Grenfeldt B, et al: Homocysteinemia is a common feature of schizophrenia. J Neural Transm Gen Sect, 1995: 100: 165-169

MENTAL HEALTH/Vaccinations

Mitochondrial Disease in Autism Spectrum Disorder Patients: A Cohort Analysis Jacqueline R Weismann, Richard Kelley, Margaret L Bauman, Bruce H Cohen, Katherine F Murray, Rebecca L Kern, Marvin R Natowicz

Cognitive Decline as a manifestation of mitochondrial disorders (mitochondrial dementia) Josef Finsterer

Environmental mercury release, special education rates and autism disorder: an ecological study of Texas Raymond F Palmer, Steven Blanchard, Zachary Stein, David Mandell, Claudia Miller

The Poling Case March 6, 2008 Case Study: Autism and Vaccines

Environmental risk factors for autism: Do they help cause de nova genetic mutations that contribute to the disorder? Dennis K Kinney, Daniel H Barch, Bogdan Chayka, Siena Napoleon, Kerim M Munir

Freed DM, Kandel E. Long-term occupational exposure and diagnosis of dementia. Neurotoxicology 1988;9(3):391-400