XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs, alt.community   
   From: Blah@hotmail.com   
      
   Day Brown wrote:   
   > Blah wrote:   
   >> The psychologist also tells us that a growing number of mental health   
   >> problems he sees are cannabis related.   
   > 100 years ago, the shrinks were telling us masturbation caused insanity.   
   > 80 years ago they said premarital sex causes bad marriages.   
   > During WWII they were treating what we now call PTSD with aspirin and   
   > sending men back to the front.   
   > 40 years ago, they said autism was caused by erratic mothering (we now   
   > have some of the DNA markers)   
   > 20 years ago, they said they could cure homosexuality (there's DNA   
   > markers for that too now)   
   >   
   > So, that does not give you pause to wonder what bullshit they are   
   > foisting upon us now? Where is the scientific double blind study to   
   > support his position?   
   >   
   Well I guess 30 years in a psych hospital in one of the blackspots for   
   drug use in the uk, and seeing the effects MIGHT be a good indicator.   
   I doubt he was bullshitting for any good reason.   
   Presumably HE sees a correlation and thats good for me.   
      
      
   > DNA reveals Native Europeans evolved in agrarian villages over the   
   > course of the last 10,000 years. Examination of the bone middens reveals   
   > they ate over 100 wild plants and animals, and that provided a wide   
   > variety of trace minerals that are not in the usual diet kids are raised   
   > on, sugar cereals, junk food, and soda.   
   >   
   > Those trace minerals have been shown to empower neurotransmitters when   
   > laying down new neural pathways during learning. If they are not   
   > available, then the biochemistry will try to make do what whatever is   
   > there, including traces of organophosphates. Which have been linked to   
   > autism. But nobody has yet looked to see if the above is linked to   
   > bipolar. There's a clue in the national autism rate- 1:155.   
   >   
   > Amish kids are still raised on the farm on a diet like ancestors had.   
   > Their autism rate- 1:15,000. You shrink could use some real data. All   
   > the above is from demographics and lab reports.   
      
   Well of course you could just blindly accept one report and don't do any   
   research...   
   in   
   http://autism.about.com/b/2008/04/23/do-the-amish-vaccinate-inde   
   d-they-do-and-their-autism-rates-may-be-lower.htm   
      
   the Amish themselves say   
   "There's more of an acceptance [among the Amish] of people for being   
   what they are, as they are. We certainly have children with difficulty   
   learning - and there are special education facilities for children who   
   have Downs, MR, and other issues. Most families have many children, a   
   high rate of communication, no television; and it's important to be able   
   to read. Communication is very, very important. I guess I have wondered   
   whether the autism out there is due to lack of personal attention and   
   communication to that child."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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