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John Best Junior (screen name Foresam - I have no choice but to give his real name for reasons of bots finding this front page) 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 was created by a chemical company called Eli Lilly. 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.

John Best Junior 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.

I first ran into John Best Junior on his blog in late November 2006. I read a post about a Canadian Autistic woman who was having trouble with her government (and as far as I know still is). I went to post and what did it start? Here's what I wrote (edited to protect identities);

John Best Junior then made his first direct comments regarding his view of mercury poisoning.

And my response was more than appropriate!

The bottom line that no one has cured Autism (Best claims that psychologists can't cure Autism but doctors can). I won't quote the whole conversation from there in this article because it would take way too long - I have separate articles for quotes, but John Best Junior wanted to know where all the 75 year old autistics were. And called it somewhat mockingly a "genetic epidemic". As far as he was concerned 1 in 166 (the ratio on ASD diagnosing in children in the US at the time) was an epidemic - when in fact it was simply a reflection of a combination of better diagnostics, and the wretched tendency of some parents to use an ASD diagnosis to make up for their own bad parenting. This usually applies to ADD and ADHD more than the others, but the problem exists. I remarked that there weren't any 75 year old autistics because they didn't usually live that long because of the distress level. At the time I also believed that mercury poisoning was cast iron lethal, and I used that as the root argument against John Best Junior's opinion.

But the idiot refused to listen. As far as he was concerned, he'd found the cause of ASD's and the cure, and refused to shift from that line. Even when I told him he was likely Autistic himself, and that's where his son got it from - not from mercury poisoning. His only response to that was to scrape the barrel on insults, even questioning my manhood simply because I'm not a father and can never be.

John Best Junior is also a believer in a good old fashioned conspiracy theory - that the government is being paid off by the chemical companies to ignore these so called warnings about thiomersal, and to lie about the preservative being used or not. For example, in Canada and Denmark, thiomersal is not being used anymore. John Best Junior refuses to believe this as the diagnosis rates have not dropped accordingly, so he calls the governments of both countries liars. He has also publicly blasted two US Senators and his state's Governor for defending the chemical companies by supporting the vaccination of children.

One of the big reasons why John Best Junior is dangerous is his self admission to stalking. This is frightening because it's clear he is part of a group who are seeing themselves as saviours. John Best Junior seems to see himself as a god - as accurately reflected by at least one other person who has been on his blog. I describe him now as a megalomaniac. He is so consumed with this conspiracy theory, this "cure" and abusing, bullying and intentionally embarrassing people including me, he is simply incapable of rational thought. He doesn't like it when people tell him the truth - calling it interference. He has also indicated a hatred for homosexuals, and one comment was made by him that indicated he was a religious person. That explains a lot because that says to me that he is a devotee of the church from a time that intolerance of people who were not "normal" was at a disgusting height and was much more influential than it is now (thank goodness). The 19th century. To steal a phrase from Doctor Who - like all megalomaniac's, he is consumed with his own vanity!

I call the others in this category an Aspie enemy. Frankly, this man is the biggest enemy of the lot. The sooner his influence over other parents is clarified, explained and exposed for what it is - the ramblings of a father driven mad by the sheer hatred of a condition that affected his son rather badly and an abnormal level of desperation to make his son "normal" (when there is no such thing). And the refusal to accept that he himself was responsible for one of the things that was resolved by the mercury poisoning treatment - intestinal problems. What was he feeding his son to create that? He'll blame the vaccines of course, but there's no way it could have been responsible for that. Best has put a lot of information on his blog about this and I have reviewed it more thoroughly in another section. Everything there (and here) is true and verifiable or based on an opinion that I hold about the issue.

John Best Junior has also claimed to be an officer and a gentleman. He has been picked up on this by a couple of other contributors to his blog, and I agree. He is far from a gentleman. He is rude, arrogant, obnoxious, intolerant - and is in all likelihood an example of the sorts of people who guard Guantanamo Bay! As far as being an officer goes, he has claimed to have been commissioned to the Air Force as a second lieutenant on July 12, 1979 - and in Texas at Lackland Base. I doubt he progressed beyond that rank - if he was telling the truth that is!

On December 23, 2006, I opened a blog at Telstra Big Blog in order to comment on his efforts - that blog is now the AS Blog. This is what I wrote when I opened the blog up;

I discovered one of the most hateful blogs in existence - titled "Hating Autism". It's run by a father of an autistic boy, and he is preaching the benefits of treating mercury poisoning as a way of "curing" Autism.

The thing I hate about the owner of "Hating Autism" about all else is his clear contempt for neuro diversity. That - in my book - is the same as contempt for any other variety of diversity you care to name. Racial, religious and cultural. That makes him a disgrace to the human race.
Timelord on the ASD blog on December 23, 2006

It should also be noted that John Best Junior considers anonymous posting to be stalking. What does that tell you? For someone who is so head up on Freedom of Speech, he certainly has a limited way of applying it! And Neurodiversity is not a lie like Best claims. It exists and to claim otherwise is insane.

On January 21, 2007 I picked up an edit on Wikipedia on their article on Generation Rescue while I was browsing at an Internet Cafe. It was removed and I tried to replace it as an anonymous IP, but it was reverted as I was told by a user called 'Staff Writer Wiki' "[deleted] is not a spokesperson - pls prove fact/relationship". That's partly why I ended up putting this article here. Here's what the edit, by a user called 'Headquarters Editorial', said;

At least one Rescue Angel, [name removed], has become very controversial. [name removed] maintains a blog called "Hating Autism", where [name removed] documents his thoughts on autism, neurodiversity, autistic people, and homosexuals. After being asked to offer his thoughts on the Rescue Angel program, [name removed] said, "I don’t mind helping kids who have idiots for parents and I think most other rescue angels feel the same way." The Natural Variation blog has compiled a list of statements....
Headquarters Editorial on Wikipedia on January 21, 2007

The Natural Variation blog is the one owned by Joseph, who has a section in the General Quotes area - and the list of statements the edit refers to has been reproduced in this same area.

On April 20, 2007, the idiot tried to join the Phil's World Wiki. The very alert Scratcher picked him up and blocked him - and when I found out I shot off a single message on his pathetic blog telling him to stay off the Wiki. His message there and the follow ups are on the appropriate quotes page (see below).

And just to prove he's a fool, John Best Junior also made a blanket statement about Autism just because the Virginian gunman was apparently diagnosed with it. I have serious reservations about that. He might have had an ASD - remembering that the perpetrator of the world's worst massacre by a single gunman (Martin Bryant at Port Arthur) is believed to be an Aspie. But putting it over as a reason to "cure Autism" is pathetic. What is needed - and I've always said this about Bryant and I'll re-iterate it when I get around to doing the article on Port Arthur (it's in General Events) - is understanding. A concept that John Best Junior is completely against.

John Best Junior is an enemy to all Aspie's and does not - can not - cure the condition. No one can. He is as big a threat to us as Adolf Hitler was to the Jews. Hitler went off the deep end if we all remember our history! And guess what? One of John Best Junior's favourite books is the Nazi Bible - Mein Kampf.

Sub articles to this main article are as follows and have been divided into parts due to the sheer volume, and the combination of a loss of data at my end and the deletion of many threads on John Best Junior's blog. This is reviewed in the John Best Junior 2 section. The General Quotes article is a long one.

There is a forum available to continue the commentary.