Edited by Guru Dudette, 19 September 2007 - 04:04 PM.
Oprah guest believes vaccine caused her child's autism
#1
Posted 18 September 2007 - 05:11 PM
#2
Posted 18 September 2007 - 05:19 PM
Apparently 1 in about 100 American boys are now diagnosed with autism. The number has grown steadily over the years. A statement by the CDC (Center for disease control) recently said that they "Simply do not know whether vaccines could be causing autism" ... and that "more research in this area is being done."
Many mothers of autistic children have reported a sudden and dramatic change in behaviour, immediately following vaccination.
Now don't shoot the messenger ... I'm only reporting the story. No need to send me all the stats of how many lives we've saved with vaccines. Just letting you know what was said ... everyone is free to come to their own conclusions.
One thing is certain ... the disorder is devastating to families ... and results in about an 80% divorce rate.
Best to all, C.C.
30-40 bucks per school age kid...big money for the pharmas..
Load em up with Mercury...give a few % autism...now they need more drugs....
and parents need em too....its genious really...
#3
Posted 18 September 2007 - 06:43 PM
#4
Posted 18 September 2007 - 08:41 PM
Edited by stocks, 18 September 2007 - 08:44 PM.
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#5
Posted 18 September 2007 - 09:29 PM
Here are some valid links:
http://en.wikipedia....ine_controversy
http://www.cdc.gov/v.../whatifstop.htm
http://www.k12academ...logy_autism.htm
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#6
Posted 19 September 2007 - 04:09 PM
It's Entertainment, kids, and you'llbe better off remembering that.
I wouldn't get my news from Jon Stewart, either.
#7
Posted 11 January 2008 - 07:11 PM
In fact, scientists at the California Department of Public Health demonstrated that in the years since nearly all thimerosal was removed from vaccines in 2001, the rate of autism has continued to rise there. Had thimerosal been the culprit, those numbers should have decreased.
By 1999, some government scientists were concerned that infants might be getting too much mercury. As a precautionary measure, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics asked pharmaceutical companies to remove thimerosal from vaccines.
Still, according to Dr. Paul A. Offit, the infectious diseases chief at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, doctors kept insisting that parents not worry about the safety of vaccines.
But the firestorm came. "Many parents, frightened by a sudden change in policy, reasoned that thimerosal was targeted because it was harmful - and their faith in the vaccine infrastructure was shaken," Offit wrote in a September issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
The result: worried parents, unvaccinated kids and more expensive vaccines.
http://reason.com/bl...how/124346.html
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#8
Posted 12 January 2008 - 09:10 AM
#9
Posted 14 January 2008 - 08:47 AM
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#10
Posted 20 January 2008 - 01:33 PM
In a June 20, 2005 Rolling Stone article entitled “Deadly Immunity”, he wrote, “It was only after reading the [testimony of a Centers for Disease Control epidemiologist at a closed door government meeting], studying the leading scientific research and talking with many of the nation’s pre-eminent authorities on mercury that I became convinced that the link between Thimerosal and the epidemic of childhood neurological disorders is real.”
Kennedy’s article had so many significant inaccuracies that Rolling Stone was forced to append to it five paragraphs of corrections.
Undeterred, two years later Kennedy wrote an article entitled “Attack on Mothers.”
Recounting the onset of autism in a 2-year old, Kennedy wrote, “After hearing that story a couple dozen times, a rational person might do some more investigation. That’s when one encounters the overwhelming science -- hundreds of research studies from dozens of countries showing the undeniable connection between mercury and Thimerosal and a wide range of neurological illnesses.” Kennedy went on to accuse the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the pharmaceutical industry of “ginning up” studies “designed to disguise the link between autism and Thimerosal.”
So Mr. Kennedy, is the California Department of Health also a member of the vast Thimerosal conspiracy?
There may be some ideological overlap between Kennedy’s anti-Thimerosal rantings and his jihad against coal-fired electric plants whose emissions include small amounts of mercury.
He recently blogged about the “calamitous externalized costs” of coal, including “global warming…dead forests and sterilized lakes from acid rain, poisoned fisheries in 49 states and children with damaged brains and crippled health from mercury emissions, millions of asthma attacks and lost work days and thousands dead annually from ozone and particulates.”
It’s quite possible that Kennedy chooses to exploit the Thimerosal-autism controversy in order to broaden his base of support for his anti-coal/global warming agenda. Anti-Thimerosal parents groups have proven to be extremely passionate about their cause and they would be a formidable force were they to campaign against coal-fired electricity with the same zeal as they did with Thimerosal.
Though use of Thimerosal has for the most part ended, its vindication is not merely of academic interest. It should serve as yet another data point against Kennedy and others who foment panic and urge a rush-to-action based on flimsy facts and misdirected anger.
http://www.cei.org/g...n/019,06344.cfm
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.