clocker bob wrote:TobiasTheCommie wrote:clocker bob wrote:TobiasTheCommie wrote:How am i biased?
You are biased because you can't admit that genetics might also be a factor in the vulnerability of certain infants to the mercury in vaccines ( or the mercury from any source ).
Where have i claimed that? Why do you keep putting words and positions into my mouth?
You have discarded the vaccine link entirely. You called it 'fairy dust'.
No i didn't. As i have said repeatedly that was an example. I just want you to provide some evidence.
clocker bob wrote: Therefore, you have discarded the possibility that genetics make some infants more vulnerable to mercury, because without an acknowledgement by you that mercury in vaccines mught be dangerous, there is no cause to pursue a genetic link to mercury vulnerability.
I think it is, right now, irrelevant to look into mercury disposition in genes, but i wouldn't object to anyone doing that. I would think it was relevant if a correlation could be shown, it can't.
clocker bob wrote:clocker bob wrote:you claim a consensus that genetics is a likely factor, but exactly *which* genes are still in question, so it is a broad consensus, not a pinpoint consensus about certain genes being the trigger.
TTC wrote:Where have i claimed otherwise? Why do you keep putting words and positions into my mouth?
You are overstating the consensus opinion that genetics is a factor. Until science specifies which genes and proves that these specific genes produce autism in every case, it does not belong on a list of 'causes' of autism. It belongs on a list of 'potential contributing factors'. You are exaggerating when you say that one cause of autism has been determined. Name the genes, if that is the case.
Some genes have been named. On page 4. And it is possible to see that it is genetic without knowing specifically which gene(s) it is. The genes are "FOXP2, WNT2, RELN, HOXA1, and HOXB1", though the specifics aren't known there is evidence that they have an influence(far more evidence than there has ever been for mercury). And more genes are coming as chromosone 2 have shown to have some influence as well.
clocker bob wrote: Going to get dinner and then to see a show. Enjoy your brief status as the 'last word'

I don't care about getting the "last word". But thanks for a nice tone in this post. It was a lot more enjoyable.