Careless headline writers strike again.
May 12, 2008
Here’s the headline:
2-year-old Boy Suffers From Rare Children’s Form of Alzheimer’s
And here’s my comment (might not be up yet):
This boy has Neimann-Pick disease. It’s a form of dementia but is NOT Alzheimer’s disease.
Plus, the first comment is some rambling bit about vaccines and a vague accusation that the “old men” who develop vaccines don’t really care about kids getting sick. Neimann-Pick is a GENETIC DISEASE. Really. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, keep quiet.
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I totally agree with you. The first comment is about a crazy conspirancy theory that include pharmaceutical companies, old people, and immigrants.
“Older men might not care too much against what is going into our children….”
“…who knows what come over the boarder and overseas from immigrants..”
And I do not see a justification to call Niemann Pick Disease as a Children’s form of Alzheimer. I think it can create confussion in the readers.