re: Objections to the Study That Showed Secretin Does Not Work for Autism

Terpsichore — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:19:25 GMT

I was very glad to find this, as I have had trouble finding anymore information about any other secretin tests. And was very disappointed that they sounded like they were going to drop it completely, because a few of the informal testings before this(with the porcine secretin) had shown extreme positive results... no language to full language and the only difference is the addition of the secretin... that is way to promising to dismiss. Bravo to Sandler et al. for admitting openly to the inherent flaws of their study, and bravo to Dr. Mercola's site for publishing it.

I don't know if anyone else has seen the pattern but I have noticed that the autsm community finds something that helps alot of the kids, and then science takes a closer look at it and then dismisses it (maybe because it doesn't help *all* autistics). My husband has mentioned that grouping all the (likely) subsets of autism together is undermining efforts to track down cures and causes because maybe not all autism has the same cause, and I have often put forward my "headache" theory. Think about headaches, all are characterized by pain in the head, but not all headaches have the same cause and they need seperate treatments. Tylenol and ibuprofen will take the edge off the pain for strained neck muscle(whiplash) headache but a muscle relaxant with it will get rid of it completely. A migraine needs something like emetrix to stop the blood vessels from spasming. A sinus headache won't go away without a decongestant and/or antihistimine... 3 headaches that need 3 seperate cures... What if autism is the same way?