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Is anyone here getting any help from NAS ?

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Does anyone here get actually get any help from NAS ?

My experience is you ask for help and they send you a bucketload of PDF'S of other organisations. Am I wrong to have expected more ?

The chief executive gets paid 140 grand a year, is it right that someone can live in luxury on that kind of salary from charitable donations ? Not even counting the other 20 people on stupid salaries comes to over 2 million quid ...no doubt plus expenses.

I thought charities existed to help others but obviously they are more interested in helping themselves.

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  • ''Certainty in any event is anathema to science per ce, but particularly dangerous when we do not know what causes autism''.

    Did I ever suggest that we do know precisely what causes autism? Did I ever suggest that Science is about certainty or dogma?  The precise cause of autism is still open to debate, but some causes (like vaccines) have been ruled out by a careful examination of peer-reviewed evidence. Science is based on evidence  and reason, it is not sacrosanct and can make mistakes, but the current consensus is that vaccines do not cause autism.

    The most well established reason why autism rates are apparently growing is simply down to greater awareness and detection rates. Autism itself has always existed.

    There is no proven evidence that autism is less prevalent elsewhere.

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  • ''Certainty in any event is anathema to science per ce, but particularly dangerous when we do not know what causes autism''.

    Did I ever suggest that we do know precisely what causes autism? Did I ever suggest that Science is about certainty or dogma?  The precise cause of autism is still open to debate, but some causes (like vaccines) have been ruled out by a careful examination of peer-reviewed evidence. Science is based on evidence  and reason, it is not sacrosanct and can make mistakes, but the current consensus is that vaccines do not cause autism.

    The most well established reason why autism rates are apparently growing is simply down to greater awareness and detection rates. Autism itself has always existed.

    There is no proven evidence that autism is less prevalent elsewhere.

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