Autism and aluminium: The din of silence

I was going through my RSS feeds this morning and came across an article that caught my attention.

I've long thought that there was a link between brain degenerative diseases such as Parkinsons/ Alzheimers and aluminium and have also suspected that there might be a link between aluminium and autism, but Professor Exley attempted to find an actual link and he appears to have done so.

I've been interested in this topic for a number of years now but I remember a particular incident that happened involving the actor Michael J Fox's foundation that really got my conspiracy senses tingling.

In 1998, Michael J Fox, who had been diagnosed with Parkinson's a few years earlier, founded the Michael J Fox Foundation to advance research into the disease. $50 million was put into a 5-year research project which involved collecting samples from people all over the world who had Parkinson's disease. In 2014, just before the samples were due to be analysed, somebody 'accidentally' left the freezer door open that was storing more than 25,000 biospecimen tubes, thereby destroying years of work and the potential discoveries that might have come from it.

Michael J Fox sued the Corielli Institute who had been paid $3.5 million in fees for storing the samples but this didn't change the fact that the samples could no longer be used and 5 years of work went down the drain.

I suspect that if the samples had been analysed they would have discovered that aluminium was present in a statistically significant number of them and this would have led to further investigation. I don't buy the 'left the door open excuse' personally.

I copy the article I linked at the top of the page below to save people having to open a new browser window but I hope that some of the more scientifically literate amongst us are able to read the actual study and leave their views in the comments section. This is an emotive subject that often attracts downvotes so I want to make it clear that although I personally think that there is a link between certain vaccines and autism as well as a link between aluminium and brain degenerative diseases I am also aware that it has not (yet) been proven without a doubt.

This subject although emotive is extremely important and the ramifications, should links be established are huge. The way that the authors of the study have been treated since publishing it should be enough to at least get people looking into the subject rather than dismissing the whole thing as a conspiracy theory.

Anyway, here's the article.

The links in the article can be followed below

our research

intereview

elucidating upon the potential dangers of the aluminium age

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