About

This blog responds to baseless discussions on how to cure the incurable – Autism. It also exposes the truth of what is slanderously called “lies of a collection of scoundrels” who know that Autism can’t be cured.

John Best Junior (screen name Foresam) is the father of a boy who has been diagnosed with low functioning Autism, and as his blog claims he hates Autism. The blog I would assume was created to express this and also to promote a bogus cure. He is one of a minority of parent groups in the United States who play a role in a group of cranks called “Generation Rescue” (Best is no longer a member after he was kicked out). They all believe that Autism is not a genetic disorder, but rather the result of being poisoning by mercury. This poisoning is claimed to have originated from a mercury based preservative known as either thimerosal (US) or thiomersal (UK/Australia). John Best Junior even gave a birth date for Autism and all it’s relations including Asperger’s Syndrome – 1931, when the preservative created by chemical company called Eli Lilly was first used. Autism wasn’t formally named until 1943 by Leo Kanner, and the convenience of this with people like John Best Junior is that 1943 indicated that the first sufferers diagnosed by Kanner were ALL children vaccinated with vaccines treated with thiomersal.

Best is keen on calling Autism and all it’s relations “diseases” and refers to people who have ASD’s as “brain damaged”. This is a bullying tactic designed to use a common colloquialism for “mad” to shove anyone with an ASD into the gutter – and their self esteem along with it. Best attempts to explain this as “identifying the condition so we can cure it”, which is a lot of rubbish and a false and misleading excuse to bully.

There is a lot of information on this site. You would need to read all of the pages as well as the blog to get a real feel for this fool. The three main quotes pages are all from 2007 at the latest, with the “More quotes” page being about 2008 between the beginning of the year at the start of the blog entry list (the “Replies”).

Please note: My replies to Best’s comments on the quotes pages were correct at the time. They are not necessarily correct now.