Does Occam’s lex parsimoniae advocate simplicity in the sense used, say by Einstein? Hmm?

Either way, is it always true that simple is best? Hmm?

Within the next several months the country of Nigerian will announce the opening of Dr. Molnar’s progenitor stem cell treatment of AIDS in six of their major teaching hospitals; naturally, papers will be published on the truly remarkable success he’s had treating AIDS patient already, and those that will be treated successfully.

THIS IS REAL STUFF; not imaginary or voodoo magic. I have four healthy children, but truly feel for the wonderful children around the world, saddled with Autism!

While I’m happy for those seventeen families they are but a tiny drop in the ocean of 10’s of thousands. In no way should they represent a miracle cure to be shouted from the mountain top. Or should we declare this treatment as the end all bee all of autism cures.

Clearly more studies are required and if your good doctor isn’t going to publish results reproducible by other physicians then its completely useless.

You also imply that other families are not happy with the treatment they are recieving. There are many autistic people that think they don’t need a cure and are fine the way they are.

We must all remember that Autism has a spectrum. Like Light there are many different frequency of symptoms. Severly effected people may react differently then mildly. So I don’t think any one thing is going to work.

That’s another arguement for another blog maybe.

Dr. Molnar is a clinican no longer a researcher. Data is currently being collected re the seveteen treated children. I did not confuse Down syndrome with Autism.

Your skepticism is understood, but again, he and his doctors measure their results in the clinics where they treat their patients NOT IN AMERICAN where they can still not provide a cure for autism! Sorry to be so blunt, but there are seventeen happy families in Asia who don’t care about peer review papers. By they way, Dr. Molnar does not know the exact age that the blood brain barrier becomes an obstacle to trasplantatio, but does belief it occurs around the age of 12.

This Doctor may well be a promonent stem cell researcher but that does not make him an authority on Autism treatment. Until I read his paper I remain skeptical.

Seventeen is NOT an adequate clinical trial size to proclaim a cure for anything. Again a real published double blind and peer reviewed study would be great as a start.

The MMR vaccination is not given until 48 months of age so i seriously doubt the ages claimed in this.

All reasearch I’ve ever seen about the blood brain barrier does NOT mention an age for its formation. As far as I can tell it is ALWAYS present. Please cite sources for this information and i’d be glad to post a correction.

Please do not confuse Autism with Down Syndrom. These are 2 completely different neurological disorders and will have very different treatments. They would still be on different genes and since scientist haven’t completed mapping the human genome I’d say we are still many years from seeing this kind of progress.

Whatever the US president does or does not do is really just speculation until it happens. Let the man do his job and IF he reverses previous decisions we can look at that reasoning. Until then its a propoganda rumor at best.

Thanks for your comments.

Each of these children were “normal” until reaching the age of 18 to 24 months, and; SUBSEQUENT TO RECEIVING measles vaccinations.

Each child improved substantially, eventually integrating into normal schools; provided being treated prior to reaching 12 years of age (blood brain barrier forms at around 12) and free of any metallic toxins at time of stem cell transplantation!

Clearly autism can be cured, and CONTRARY to what American medicine is currently saying! By the way, Down Syndrome can be treated up to about 4 years of age.

Lastly, we should anticipate President elect Obama reverse Bush’s existing stem cell executive order, however, don’t expect stem cell treatments to commence in the US for at least 10 years due to the instability of embryonic “pluripotent” cells that have a tendency to cause tumors in mice; hence the need to use early stage xeno fetal cells that have fully differentiated!