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John Bleau

My “wild speculation” serves to indicate that genetics need not be a cause for all cases of autism nor need all cases of autism be due to genetics. Same applies to mercury. Your questions: 1) Why is the concordance not 100% in identical twins? That it isn’t strongly suggests an environmental compone...

John Bleau

"...why if mercury is a cuase for autism, is it not so in all cases. And mercury has immediate side effects" I'll sketch a reply and might answer in more detail later. How people react varies - witness allergic reactions. Factors vary from person to person. Many of these factors can indeed be genet...

John Bleau

The burden of proof is manifestly not on those who claim causation. Simple correlation should be sufficient to remove a potentially dangerous product from the shelves, especially a recognized toxin. Remember that the tobacco industry's standard defence was that a causal relationship was not proved a...

John Bleau

I don't see the pertinence of many of the questions. For example, the existence of a genetic predisposition does not preclude environmental factors as well. I don't have the stats, some of which are not open to the public yet should be, but apparently countries in Europe that banned mercury a long t...

John Bleau

Funny how jbuck doesn't call you Rain Man for initiating so many health care threads. I don't mind though; just pointing out his double standard. The comments by autismdiva are worthless, but the Wakefield case is worth following. Bear in mind that most studies nowadays involve conflict of interest,...

John Bleau

I was a very big Coke drinker in the past. When New Coke had replaced old Coke, I told my brother, another big Coke drinker, what would happen - such an outcry by the diehards that it would be an endorsement by millions, and old Coke would have to be brought back in a blaze of glory. I thought that ...

John Bleau

BWV, I appreciate your effort here. The French-language link I provided does claim that an absolute lymphocyte count reflects on CD4 counts and is a valid surrogate marker (once removed, if I may say). However, I agree with Bennett that no side can comment much - much less categorically assert that ...

John Bleau

Teresa, your post is a useful one, but no, the whole thing is far from pointless. There are probably more long term non-progressors than there are patients taking anti-retrovirals, but Christine Maggiore Scovill is such a high-profile one that a sloppy diagnosis¹ is being used to discredit her. So i...

John Bleau

"the blood counting machine may have counted some nucleated red cells as lymphocytes. These may have been released from the bone marrow during resucitation- cardiac massage" - this is clutching at straws. I assume you're revising yourself, because you clearly said that the 10800 number is post-morte...

John Bleau

"the 10800 number is post-mortem paid for by Maggiore, which was done by a Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati who was not even an MD" - well, I don't mention Al-Bayati, but if you insist that the 10,800 number comes from him, I'd like proof. The text you cite does not provide it. It is obviously a very importa...

John Bleau

The sheer number of words and non-sequiturs does not hide the fact that EJ's high lymphocyte count, even if it did indicate viral infection, categorically means she did not have AIDS. It goes counter to the WHO definition by a long shot and she therefore did not have AIDS. Lymphocytes, being central...

John Bleau

jbuck changed his post, but it's still shallow. Do you think "John Bleau" is a cover?

John Bleau

Now, if BWV wonders why I'm so condescending, contrast my opening post with its pertinent information, with that of jbuck. Good god, jbuck, how on earth could that girl have been said to have "AIDS-related pneumonia"?

John Bleau

Maggiore was called criminally stupid on these boards for "letting her daughter die of AIDS." From http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3887&IssueNum=157 Maniotis said something that I have never heard noted before. “They did a lymphocyte count on Eliza Jane when she was admitted to the hospital...

John Bleau

Hi GK,

Yeah, but I think I'll stay. BWV is offended by my "blanket statements," yet calls a grieving mother "criminally negligent" for her courageous stand against pharma pimps and media whores. Hmm... I think I'll dredge that one up...

John Bleau

BWV: I am not quantifying how far the benefits are offset by the debt, only that they are offset by a consideration that is too often left out of the sound bites. That consideration, however, is 800 bn in added debts per year, so it's not likely that the benefits are only 5% offset. Pegging a reason...

John Bleau

You read incorrectly and to pass on your inaccuracy, you omitted key words. Offset does not mean 90%, 100% or 110%, it includes those in the range. The fact is that the "tax cuts = increased revenue" crowd don't touch the trade deficit with a ten-foot pole in their sound bites, making the growth loo...

John Bleau

BWV, anything larger than a Chicken McNugget sound bite will make you gag. "tax cuts are offset by higher interest rates, inflation or foreign debt" - you dropped my use of the words benefits of: "the benefits of tax cuts..." A significant omission making your interpretation of my initial post 180º ...

John Bleau

No I don't. I say that the growth comes with a debt. In other words, I say exactly what it is that you think I'm denying.

John Bleau

I would suggest you do a logic diagram to show how it follows from my post that there is no such thing as investment and wealth creation.

John Bleau

In an interminable discussion on another board, I had to keep reminding my interlocutor that in a closed system, the benefits of tax cuts are offset by increased inflation and/or interest rates. In an open system, i.e., with foreign trade, they're offset by any one or more of increased inflation, in...

John Bleau

Yeah, Montreal is a great city.

Corlyss, I may someday post stories, but whenever I get a break a new contract comes in.

John Bleau

In his memoirs, the great Soviet chess champion Mikhail Botvinnik described his friends' kibbitzing as he was, at the age of 12, beating World Champion José Raoul Capablanca in a simultaneous exhibition: "In spite of my friends' help, I managed to win the game." The sickliness of Americans is in spi...

John Bleau

I've been back two weeks. In Quebec City, though, not Montreal, which is 150 miles SE from here. The trip was wonderful, with an amazing cast of characters. Where I had most fun was where we were in the worst trouble or the most tiring circumstances (blown onto shoals once, took six hours in tough w...

John Bleau

Yes, meaning that everything owes its existence to a solipcist's tautology. No wonder there's zero total energy in the Universe...

John Bleau

Princeton?? Ever since they started hiring disheveled hippies with relative problems, that place went downhill.

John Bleau

"Restless leg syndrome is a real disorder (my sister has it)" - not had it? After all, ain't there medicine for it?? Well, there's a sucker born every minute. By the way, how did your flu vaccine work out?

John Bleau

It just might take. During my trip I saw an ad for Restless Leg Syndrome medicine. An incredibly large percentage of American TV advertizing is for drugs. Marketing can play a big role in perceived need. I've been close enough to the snakeoil bastards to know very well how they operate.

John Bleau

Most "chocolate bars" are actually candy bars, mostly sugar with less than 5% chocolate content. I don't eat them. Even sweeteners are falling in quality, with cheap high fructose corn syrup replacing cane. This is often blamed for the obesity epidemic. Lindt, as Brendan mentioned, is very good. I a...

John Bleau

When they're that short they should get spankings.

John Bleau

I knew for quite a while that squirrels in the west often carried bubonic plague, so the article is no surprise. Reading a little into the article: If one person in seven dies, then we have about 2½ persons dying out of the annual 18 stricken. This is a very small sample and for a larger population,...

John Bleau

"I can't imagine something more irresponsible than putting a soldier suffering from stress on (antidepressants), when you know these drugs can cause people to become suicidal and homicidal," said Vera Sharav But, of course, Tom Cruise is a nutcase for saying that Brooke Shields should be getting so...

John Bleau

Ralph: apotemnophilia
You might also wish to look up "trepanning," which some people actually do to themselves deliberately.

John Bleau

Some here will benefit from Hollywood lessons on manliness. You might want to stock up on Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra DVDs. Some might draw inspiration from Roseanne Barr's line, "anyone that thinks I'm not feminine enough can suck my dick." Republicans think that all that matters is the size o...

John Bleau

Foreign ownership of public debt has gone from about 17% in 1982 to about 32% at the beginning of the Bush era to over 50% now. Private savings are negative. Wage growth was negative compared to inflation last year. The housing bubble is showing signs of bursting. The US dollar is losing its luster ...

John Bleau

Health care in the USA is headed toward 20% of GDP. Priorities will be quite a haggle.

John Bleau

Jack, I rarely participated in Evo-Cre threads. Memorable was the Singing Sopranos thread in which hilarious anecdotes about sopranos were traded. The territorial threads (Ionia, Unionia, Bachanalia) were breeding grounds for flame wars the likes of which we just don't see anymore. There was tremend...

John Bleau

Obviously, BWV, jbuck's, Teresa's, Werner's and your inability to address the facts I had put up in the past is not a reflection on the pizzas and Corlysses and certain others of these boards. I'm not the only rational one here. But don't for an instant think that jbuck's post here (for example), wh...

John Bleau

That's better. If I have the time, I will address these points, but it may take a while, possibly as late as May, when I return home.

John Bleau

That's right Dennis, and I called that one on these very boards before it happened. These hits are lost on this board's unthinkers.

John Bleau

It isn't a matter of belief. That's your department. It's a matter of reasoning on available facts, something you, Teresa, jbuck and Werner have been rigorously avoiding. You just copy/pasted a long and deeply flawed article. A modicum of critical thinking on your part would have uncovered some glar...

John Bleau

Ass coverage.

John Bleau

Hi Jack, good to (figuratively) see you too. I'm very sporadically on the Web these days, sailing around the Bahamas instead. Just a few days ago, we were headed from Nassau to the Allen's Keys, famed for their iguanas, in the Exumas, 28 nm SSE. The waters were so calm that the sailboat was like a s...

John Bleau

Yes, Ralph, but would you have been as outraged if, in Italy, a virgin had been raped and the rapist received a stiffer sentence because the victim was a virgin? You certainly expressed outrage in no uncertain terms in the matter at hand.

John Bleau

Hi Ted, greetings from the Bahamas. Glad everything is well for you.

John Bleau

I'm in Nassau right now, on the marina's wifi. Things going well here, Ralph, and I'm happy to see you as feisty as ever. Just a question: what if the reverse situation had occurred and the court handed out a stiffer sentence because a raped minor was a virgin? Would the general outcry be as strong ...

John Bleau

I don't equate Bush with Hitler any more than I equate his detractors with Chamberlain. The irrationality goes both ways.

John Bleau

I will post sources if necessary - i.e., if you're ignorant of the facts I laid out. I won't jump through hoops as a matter of protocol.

John Bleau

Oh dear, I'm again being confronted with an authority in another pithy answer from Corlyss. It ain't just the New York Times that puts out garbage. My assessment does not just consist in the three words you quoted: in the rest of my post I do "better than that."

John Bleau

And thanks Ted. Got your email.

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