I like your bucket theory, and think it can apply to many of the problems we discuss on this forum.

Aaltrude, interestingly, many people with multiple chemical sensitivity also develop sensitivity to EMR.

I've been reading your site this morning.  Fascinating, but...I have a friend with an autistic child WHO HAS NEVER RECEIVED A VACCINE!  He is now 11 years old.

My son never got the MMR yet was diagnosed with severe autism at 11 months old.  We tested his vaccine titers and indeed he had zero titers to measles.  A few months later he accidentally got "horizontally vaccinated" with the MMR by transmission from another child who had just gotten his booster shots.  We knew what happened immediately because he broke out in a pinprick rash all over his torso, which went away when we increased his Vitamin A supplementation.  We retested his vaccine titers, and sure enough he now has titers to measles/mumps/rubella.  However it did not affect his autism at all.  He has continued to make wonderful improvements from the biomedical interventions we've been doing.  The MMR is just one more stressor that gets dumped into the child's bucket.  Unfortunately for many children who develop autism, MMR happens to be the proverbial straw, that fills up their bucket and pushes them over the edge into autism.  Usually many vaccines, antibiotics, mom's amalgam fillings and fish consumption, viruses, yeast, and many other toxins and insults have already primed the bucket.  

Readers here understand the dangers of vaccines and cell phones.  However, I am not sure why autism would be created in small children  by cell phones unless we're discussing frequency exposure around the reproductive organs of the parent(s).  Perhaps that could create mutations during natal development. The other possibility would be from damage to DNA, but I can't figure out how the autism would only happen in children.  Although they are more sensitive, they will have received relatively less exposure than adults.  Yet the adults are not discussed in the study.

At the same time, I'm having a hard time with the theory of MMR vaccines being the only factor involved.  As we can see from the feedback, not all autistic children have had that particular vaccine.  Therefore, it cannot be the only way to develop autism.  That doesn't discredit it as one of multiple factors.  Autism rates are lower in other countries where the vaccine is used.  There has to be another variable involved (ex: toxins/metals).

I got rid of my cell phone and started using Skype and Gizmo (online phones) with ferrite beads a few years ago.  With the cell phone, I sometimes felt a hot numbness by my ear.  That was enough for me to change over. Although I may have imagined part of my former symptoms, the headaches I was having disappeared.  

I think Alex Jones is right about a lot of things, and I (reluctantly) have faced the facts that there are shadow governments who have agendas beyond what the general public knows.  I try to stay grounded when I read stuff like that, though.  We have an explosion of ideas, but you can't believe everything one person says.  Take bits of information but not whole theories.

Dear Cinnabar, as Dr. Carley points out, there are many conditions tha mimic true autism.  I don't think we are looking at anything really simple.  I was told by a social worker that in Japan, when cell phones were introduced about 2% of the population in every age group in every town throughout the nation became incapable of socializing.  This was originally called "autism" in the press, but they changed it later to "school refusal."  It's not that old people refuse to go to school, they just get grumpy and disappear.  Later, researchers demonstrated changes in cerebral blood flow in children (again, they ignored the older people) afflicted with the syndrome upon exposure to EMR.  (See omega.twoday.net/.../242929 for related research.)

The point with young children, however, is that their brains and ways of relating to the world are still under development, so they are much more vulnerable to impacts at that stage.

I don't like being irradiated because I am aware of its impact on my health (arrhythmia and immune function decline), but I avoid confronting cell phone users because I find they can be really really nasty.  I suspect it is hurting them far more than me.

Does anyone know about the levels of radiation from the sun in relation to EMFs on the brain?  I know a physicist who says solar radiation is much stronger than what we're exposed to through electronics.  

Dear Cinnabar again!  Your physicist friend is right in that solar radiation is much stronger than our new-fangled irradiating devices.  So is the earth's magnetic field, for that matter.  He should also be aware of the huge degree of complexity of wave phenomena.  Light by itself carries an enormous load of information, which you can come to appreciate by working with the blind.  According to Ukrainian researcher Ponezhelska (see www.salzburg.gv.at/bf/2001_kositsky_et_al._-ussr_review-2.pdf ), the presence or absence of biological effects can depend on frequency, modulation, polarity, field strength (non-linearly sometimes=window effects), environmental factors and predisposition of the individual.  Interestingly, in the Moscow Embassy irradiation case, people in the far field (less intense) suffered more effects than those in the  near field--as predicted by the Russians' own research!  Anyway, the point I want to make is that we evolved under conditions of natural solar radiation but now are subjecting ourselves to something very unnatural with a degree of complexity that few can understand.

We must be careful not to confuse CORRELATION with CAUSE AND EFFECT. The associations mentioned can be very convincing and scary, but there are other explanations- for instance people in the first world are living much longer then their grandparents did, so as they age they are more likely to get cancers and neurological diseases.

Previously someone would likely have died of diseases such as TB and many died from diseases such as measles and small pox - now largely prevented or eradicated by vaccinations. These days there is so much information it can be hard to keep things in perspective. My favourite association: global warming is statistically correlated with the disappearance of Caribbean pirates! Now does that mean we should become pirates to save the world?!

To enlarge upon what Pat Ormsby said:  The Sun's EM radiation emissions differ immensely from our own man-made EMR, especially in that the Sun's MWR are pulsed DC, that is, they do not "reverse" as do artificial MWR such as produced by communications devices and magnetron tubes in MW ovens and radar units.  Polarity reversal causes polarized molecules such as water to literally spin, and the energy absorbed & released in the process becomes heat, wich increases the normal rate of molecular vibration to rise to the violent level of over 500 degrees F.  This vibration is no longer the jiggling in place we call "warm", it is the violent 'slam-dancing' we call "HOT" which involves violent molecular collisions, not just jiggling.  These collisions, that normally would only distort molecules into their isomers, some of which are toxic, others merely biologically inert, is then exacerbated by the water molecules spinning as they slam into long-chain organic molecules, not merely distorting them but actually 'smipping' them like submicroscopic buzz-saws into randomly unpredictable radiolytic ("cut from radiation") free radicals that are almost always toxic in the extreme.  Be aware this happens within food that is even thawed in MW ovens, BTW.  The longer the exposere, the greater the toxic saturation.  "Thaw" setting merely cycles on & off, it is NOT a lower level of intensity, so the damage is the same as continuous for the total time it is "on", typically 1/10th of the time.  So ten minutes on "Thaw" equals one minute on "High".  Only the rate of heat absorption throughout the mass differes; the total damage molecularly is identical, so the radiotoxicity is the same.

The intensity, or wattage, of the MWR emitted by cell phones is much lower than a MW oven, so you don't feel much if any warming, and the molecular damage occurs much more slowly; but it still happens -- you just don't notice your brain being cooked because it's only relatively few molecules at a time.

Very interesting thread.  I was recently privileged to be on a call with Dr. Linda Fickes, a gifted holisting health practitioner.  Dr. Fickes was speaking to the efficacy and magical results that one of her clients, a 13 year old autistic boy, experienced.  Prior to working with Dr. Fickes, this child required an aide to go to school and was the central focus of his family's routine.  In addition to chiropractic adjustments, nutritional supplementation which are the norm in such an office, Dr. Fickes worked with the family to insure the boy was protected from electro pollution.  The results have been nothing less than stunning.  The child has now requested that he be allowed to go to school without an aide, and is functioning in concert with the family.

I have Dr. Fickes' contact information and would be happy to make that available to anyone who would like to talk to her about their child.  You may contact me at  www.upgradeyourlifenow.com.

If the US has more heavy metals and such in drinking water then cell phones can trap those heavy metals in the cells of children, even unborn children. I don't see why that's difficult for you to understand.

It also clearly states that there may be other factors, people fail to realise all the above ground nuclear testing that was done in this country which I think may also have a major contribution to birth defects in the US.

I would have to say that environmental toxins and heavy metal toxicity is worthwhile looking into!  www.drdinn.com is a site that has questions and answers on zeolites for detoxification.  

Japan is a huge consumer of fish, so the mercury theory wouldn't hold there either.  Perhaps the sea vegetables in the diet help to cleanse the heavy metals in the other foods...?  Hmmm.  Who knows.

It may be that "autism" is defined differently in Japan.  I have word from a social worker here that upon initiation of cell phone service in Japan, 2% of all age groups were affected with something originally called "autism" but later renamed "school refusal."  Mercury contamination is also very high here.