From the New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/.../18swimmer.html
A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: June 18, 2008
SAN DIEGO — As Kendall Bailey swims, his praying-mantis limbs flapping him forward, something about the water disguises his many maladies: cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism and more. Only in a swimming pool do they dissolve and allow his troubled body and mind to be all but normal. He is happy, safe and possibly the fastest disabled breaststroker in the world....
I think such a debate would be akin to arguing that the world is flat.
You may be right. Perhaps I should have chosen my words with a little more thought. I should have said, "There are some who claim a link between thiomersal containing vaccines and autism." How's that? And do you really expect me to believe that the world is some shape other than flat. If I look from my desk out the window, it looks flat to me!;-)
I think such a debate would be akin to arguing that the world is flat.
You may be right. Perhaps I should have chosen my words with a little more thought. I should have said, "There are some who claim a link between thiomersal containing vaccines and autism." How's that? And do you really expect me to believe that the world is some shape other than flat. If I look from my desk out the window, it looks flat to me!;-)
