On the original WP article http://www.wrongplanet.net/article373.html I wrote
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I used to listen to Savage but stopped when it became clear to me that he's suffering from the angry old man syndrome. This article is basically the nail in the coffin for me. I will never listen to him again. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
But knowing how the media tends to take things out of context I found a video response and sure enough Savage's words were twisted around. I wrote the follow up...
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I'm in no way posting this to be confrontational but I was wondering if anyone had a chance to watch this interview where Savage responses to his comments?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK2SYib5Sxg It might be a good idea to at least watch and listen and then make a decision.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK2SYib5Sxg[/youtube]
Savage wasn't saying that autism isn't a disease. His anger was directed towards the medical industry for giving non-autistic children medicines meant for kids WITH the disease. What he and others in the medical community found is that in most cases non-autistic child taking those medicines over time developed mental problems; the kinds that require doses of Ritalin and Oxycodone.
Regardless of your views on Savage he isn't a hack. His list of degrees are long:
Ph.D., Nutritional Ethnomedicine
M.S., Medical Anthropology
M.S., Medical Botany
B.A, Sociology
B.A., Education
Anyone that discredits his educational background when he speaks on medical subjects is delusional and, unfortunately, ignorant.
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19 Feb 2009, 6:52 pm
