Knuckleheads of Neurodiversity Attack the Geiers

Since the Geier's gave us more proof that mercury is the cause of the autism epidemic, Neurodiverse knuckleheads have written a bunch of cockamamie junk trying to refute their findings. The curious thread running through all of their nonsense is that they attack the publication. They attack facts irrelevant to the paper, including the fact that the Geier's have acted as expert witnesses. I suppose these lunatics think that some wack job like Autism Diva would be a more appropriate expert witness. She could show up the Geiers easily with her alien abduction theory.
Neurodiversity could also throw Prometheus up as an expert. This guy thinks he is a master of statistical analysis yet, when pressed to prove it, balks at the relatively simple task of analyzing a horse race. Anyone who is a true statistical wizard should be able to figure out the small bit of data in the Daily Racing Form as opposed to working with thousands of pieces of evidence contained in VAERS. This alleged expert scientist spends most of his blogging time trying to refute the connection of mercury to autism and claims he only does this to prevent children from being harmed by "quack" treatments. At the same time he is "protecting" children, he advocates shooting more mercury into them. That's some scientist. Support shooting up babies with known poisons and then rant and rave against those who try to remove that poison. Of course, to try to cover his fallacious arguments, Prometheus recently took a refresher course in reasoning and argument so he could write about it and help some less practiced lunatics hone their debating skills. Now, when one decides to question his idiocy of denying the mercury connection, one must put up with freshman style argument refutation which employs citing every known argument fallacy while evading the relevant questions. Prometheus and his lunatic followers can seem semi-intelligent while he can control comments on his blog but I don't think he'd fare very well when forced to answer questions directly by a competent lawyer.
Neurodiversity also has some surgeon who calls himself ORAC as an ally. This guy admits that chelation is the proper treatment for mercury poisoning yet rants and raves that chelation won't cure autism. He persists in this idiotic rant in spite of mounting evidence that children are, in fact, being cured of autism with chelation. We hear further moronic assertions that it is invalid to ascribe success to chelation alone since autistic kids improve over time. We are repeatedly reminded by him and his associates that improvement from chelation is not proof of mercury poisoning. The problem with this simplistic answer is that he doesn't tell us why the kids improve with chelation. Some of his wackier associates tell us it is a placebo effect. Perhaps ORAC thinks the kids are improving with chelation because their parents are praying at the same time and God intervened. It boggles the mind how an MD can see kids improve with a medically sanctioned treatment and then claim the improvement was not the result of that treatment. Some guys will say anything to protect their negligent associates who injected too much mercury into infants and now want to cover up their error. That's why ORAC also jumps to denigrate the publication that let us see the truth about mercury in print. He praises the statisticians who knock the Geiers but don't have the smarts to figure out a simple horse race. It's always a good ploy by doctors to knock lawyers. To claim that the VAERS data is suspect because some of the reports were made by lawyers works well when all the idiots who read your junk will agree with this stupid argument. However, when one questions the fact that most people never heard of VAERS and the numbers should be much greater back in the 1990's which would show more of a reduction in autism since the removal of thimerosal from some vaccines, the idiots don't have a response. They just maintain that lawyers have contaminated the data. They don't concern themselves with the statute of limitations and the fact that that statute voids claims by most of the injured children. I guess they figure if they ignore that objection that it will go away.
Then we have Kathleen Siedel, the raving maniac of Neurodiversity who has something to say about everything that proves the mercury connection. Her most recent spin against the Geiers claims it is the political far right and their values versus the low brow musings of the far left. How political leanings have anything to do with the science involved is beyond me but that is the gist of her latest deranged rant. Sure, knock the publication's politics when you can't refute what they say. This is how Kathleen helps autistic children. She rants against science that will help them.