In 1931 the Nobel Prize was awarded to German scientist Otto Warburg for his theory that cancer started from injury to the mitochondria, the cell’s energy power plant, creating a low oxygen environment in the cell.
In 2000 an article appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry (“Temporal Lobe Dysfunction in Childhood Autism: A PET Study”), which showed areas of hypoperfusion (low oxygen) in those areas of the brain responsible for language and auditory comprehension. This finding has been replicated in many studies.
In 2008 the US Government conceded the Hannah Poling case, based on evidence that her vaccinations triggered an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction, resulting in her autism and seizures.
In the years following Warburg’s award, though, the inquiry into the causes of cancer shifted to genetic mutations. The charge leveled against Warburg’s work was that he had identified the effects of cancer, and not a cause. Similarly, no consistent pattern of mitochondrial defect could be found. Many believed it was a mistake to have awarded him the Nobel Prize.
In 1931 the Nobel Prize was awarded to German scientist Otto Warburg for his theory that cancer started from injury to the mitochondria, the cell’s energy power plant, creating a low oxygen environment in the cell.
In 2000 an article appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry (“Temporal Lobe Dysfunction in Childhood Autism: A PET Study”), which showed areas of hypoperfusion (low oxygen) in those areas of the brain responsible for language and auditory comprehension. This finding has been replicated in many studies.
In 2008 the US Government conceded the Hannah Poling case, based on evidence that her vaccinations triggered an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction, resulting in her autism and seizures.
In the years following Warburg’s award, though, the inquiry into the causes of cancer shifted to genetic mutations. The charge leveled against Warburg’s work was that he had identified the effects of cancer, and not a cause. Similarly, no consistent pattern of mitochondrial defect could be found. Many believed it was a mistake to have awarded him the Nobel Prize.
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