(FYI: This is Patrick Jr. writing this.)
The following comes from JB Handley of Generation Rescue and something he posted on the Evidence of Harm Yahoo! Group. (Registration is required and must be approved by the moderator. Not my rules.)
It is posted on Pat Sullivan Blog verbatim, with his permission. One quick thing to note, I know that I have read the Orac-ites (those who are anti any sort of mercury/autism connection and EXTEMELY anti- TD-DMPS chelation therapy) complain that JB Handley oozes of the same slime and filth as Dr. Buttar. Keep this in perspective as you watch the comments roll in from DD, Autism Diva, etc.
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Dr. Buttar is a polarizing figure. Why?
My thoughts:
1. He sat in front of Congress and said a very high number of kids
recovered using TD-DMPS. But, he has never published anything,
videotaped anything, or has shown us these kids. In a world where
everyone has been burnt by a "cure", this will make parents very
suspicious.
2. He apparently has a financial interest in TD-DMPS. I don't know if
these means he gets $50 a year in royalties or $500,000 a year, but
it makes him seem like a profiteer.
3. He is a bull-in-a-china-shop personality. This guy is a former
Army officer, a former bouncer, physically imposing, who happens to
also be very smart. He suffers fools poorly and lacks a bit of the
diplomacy that someone in his position may need to navigate these
times.
4. Because of all of the above, it is a natural human behavior to
project our intense frustration over what has happened to our
children (and our respective lives) because of autism onto him. He is
a very easy target.
So, the guy is polarizing. But, there is another side:
1. As someone who sees every email Generation Rescue receives, TD-
DMPS is the overwhelming choice of parents reporting gains in their
kids. Could this change? Absolutely. But, that's today's reality.
2. We use 4 different Doctors to get advice about treating my son.
After a long wait, we got a chance to speak with Dr. Buttar. My wife
and I think we are pretty knowledgeable about our son. Buttar taught
us things no other Doctor has. He knows his stuff. Period.
3. If you spend time with him, most people quickly realize he is a
God-loving Southerner who loves kids and wants, intensely, for them
to get better.
4. A film crew doing a documentary wanted to film Buttar and his
recovered patients. I set up the visit. Buttar produced the families
with the recovered kids. It's on tape.
5. A Doctor has been out to review Buttar's records and claims. I
know this for certain. This Doctor claims it is all true, I know
this, too. Is that a peer-reviewed study? Hell no, but I'm not
waiting.
6. If you can't find, on your own, the scientific proof that DMPS
actually chelates mercury, you aren't trying. The only question is
whether DMPS works in a transdermal form. Here are some thoughts:
- What doesn't the skin absorb that it comes in contact with? Isn't
that part of the whole problem? Isn't that why my son has antimony
pouring out of his body, because he absorbed it from his pajamas,
matress, and car seat? It's our largest fu%%ing organ!!!
- If you think TD-DMPS doesn't work, here's a simple idea. Do a
challenge dose on yourself. Just put 80 drops on your skin and see
what happens. I try everything we put on or in my son. I did this.
Just do it, then report back.
Leave Buttar alone. If you are venting at him, look inside yourself.
If you don't believe in TD-DMPS, don't use it. Write to Generation
Rescue and explain that you tried and it did not work. Don't roach
other people's buzz because it did not work for you. Oh, and if you
gave it less than 18 months, that may not have been enough time. Yes,
that is a brutal paradox - we are running out of time!!! But, the sad
reality is chelation takes a long time. If someone says, "I tried TD-
DMPS for 3 months and it did not work" - that is not credible.
IMO,
JB
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UPDATE: Kevin B. replied to JB's post, adding the following. (Posted here with Kevin B.'s permission.)
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3 things:
1. My son is in his 7th month of TD-DMPS, and is having his best
month in years, by far. It's a good protocol. In addition to DMPS,
his lotion allows glutiathione to be absorbed transdermally.
2. Re: clinical studies of his protocol. When asked by media, I
respectfully ask Dr. Buttar to say something like "I support and
welcome clinical studies, but I don't have the tens of millions of
dollars necessary to do them. My patients need help now."
3. Also re: clinical studies. Please do not say, alone, in the
forest, or with TV cameras rolling in your office, anything approaching
"not worth the time", when asked about formalizing your work.
Kevin
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RELATED STORIES ON PAT SULLIVAN BLOG:
Dr. Rashid Buttar's Bio (9/26/05)
Dr. Buttar on IV EDTA Chelation and the Autistic Boy's Death (8/29/05)
Dr. Buttar gets mugged by 6NEWS Investigators (9/1/05)
Autism - If not mercury, then what? (8/31/05)
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