Vaccines were in the news again this past week. And no, it wasn't because everyone was wondering if Nadya Suleman, the mom of the octuplets in California, is going to vaccinate her kids.
The news was that the special 'vaccine court' found that vaccines were not to blame for causing autism in the test cases they were investigating. Although more cases have been filed, these were thought to be the strongest. And Dr. Andrew Wakefield was in the news again. He first came up with the MMR-autism connection, which was later rejected because of accusations of flawed research and conflicts of interest.
While none of this information will likely change the minds of parents who are firmly against vaccinating their kids, it will hopefully remind other parents that there is a lot of vaccine misinformation out there and they should really do their research before making such an important decision.
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It may not change the minds of those already tied to the vaccines-cause-autism notion, but hopefully this court decision will help to reduce the number of future autism families who buy into the idea.
J.B. Handley of Generation Rescue made this comment on his blog, apparently without any idea of the irony:
“..which will never work when people are being added to our side, tragically, every day”
Many would agree with the words if not the sentiment and say, yes, it is tragic that many are being added to his side in the discussion.
Sullivan, you’ve got it wrong. J.B Handley meant that more and more children are being added to the autism roster or children who are vaccine-damaged group. If you want irony, check out Merck’s “one less” slogan for Gardasil. That vaccine is racking up deaths and other adverse “events” already at a good pace, even though it has only been on the market for a few years.
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One fact that wont go away is that numbers of autism have risen from 1 in 10 000 to almost 1 in 50.
While we have a rise of that scale EVERYTHING needs to be under the MICROSCOPE; vaccines INCLUDED.
And a point missed by many. ZERO or no infectious drug resistant illnesses in USA hospitals 40 years ago now amounts to more than 10 million illnesses nearly every one of which has theoretically a VACCINE to prevent this loss of life.
How come we can inject the infant up to a 100 times but somehow won’t inject one vaccine into an adult to prevent a vaccine preventable illness when they go to hospital?
How come we can inject the infant up to a 100 times but somehow won’t inject one vaccine into an adult to prevent a vaccine preventable illness when they go to hospital?
High risk adults do get the Pneumovax vaccine and most should get a yearly flu vaccine.
If there were other vaccines available to prevent hospital acquired and community acquired infections, such as MRSA, I think that many adults would want those too.
I couldn’t agree more that (parents) ” should really do their research before making such an important decision.” If they do, and they actually read source documents not the propaganda that is so often served up as facts. If they actually read the so called scientific evidence of the safety of vaccines they they will find that vaccines as they are now manufactured and dispensed are not worth the risk. I would suggest the Simpsonwood transcripts and the Denmark report as a good place to start.
I would suggest the Simpsonwood transcripts and the Denmark report as a good place to start.
Few people are likely to read the full Simpsonwood transcripts (Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information), but instead of only reading ‘juicy quotes’ from certain websites or the Deadly Immunity article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., it might be a good idea for them to also read this analysis from the Skeptico site – Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s completely dishonest thimerosal article.
The brand new has an entire news section dedicated to vaccine-preventable diseases. Definitely worth a look ; impressive site.