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jssaylor2007
I have a family member who has autism, and probably even have it to a mild degree myself. The vaccinations dont cause it. This has been shown time and time again.
maryhinge
reply to post by angryhulk
AGREED
my eldest now 12 and twins of 10 had the MMR vaccine and they are alright
DJW001
reply to post by Akragon
We've all heard the rumours... well in the past few months courts from several different countries have confirmed it... it is a fact that vaccines can cause horrible debilitating effects
Law courts are no more qualified to determine medical facts than biologists are qualified to determine contract law.
In fact... In the past thirty years ( according to this article) Children and the parents of have been awarded millions of dollars in damages from lawsuits because these vaccines have caused so much harm... up to and including brain damage... :O
No, people have been cashing in big time by hiring lawyers who can portray them as victims. If you think Big Pharma is corrupt, just wait until you look into the legal profession.
LadyLurker
reply to post by boncho
anything that adequately fits your own set criteria for "research", just so happens to require substantial amounts of the very substance that drives the entire industry.
money.
its the same fallacy in every one of these debates. you will only accept data presented by those you deem "reliable". those sources are *usually* the same vested interests in question.
round and round we go. but the variable is always the $ame...
Rubinstein
Pardon?
Firstly, that article's 4 years old so it's not exact;y a "new" study.
Secondly, the study was only on boys. I believe there are girls with autism.
Thirdly, not every baby gets the Hep B vaccine.
1. Logically speaking, why would an article being 4 years old make any difference? The Thalidomide studies are a lot older, does that make them wrong? Should pregnant women start taking Thalidomide again?
2. If the study only shows the vaccine is causing Autism in boys, boys still make up 50% of the population
3. Yes, not every baby gets the Hep B vaccine, that's how we know that the ones who don't are less likely to go Autistic.
If you haven't got any good points to raise, why bother arguing at all? You feel compelled to disagree just for the sake of disagreeing, but you only make yourself look like a blind and brainwashed follower.
Rubinstein
That's a sample size of 2 i.e. not statistically significant. Also, how do you know the MMR vaccine didn't reduce their IQ or push them towards a disease in the future?
maryhinge
reply to post by angryhulk
AGREED
my eldest now 12 and twins of 10 had the MMR vaccine and they are alright
edit on 22-11-2013 by Rubinstein because: (no reason given)
boncho
It doesn't work that way. If you want to prove your hypothesis right, prove it right. You don't make scientific discovery by claiming someone's work is shoddy, it's just not scientific. You know, the whole "method" part of it all.
Pardon?
Rubinstein
Pardon?
However I would say that in the vast majority of cases of autism etc there isn't one specific cause or even trigger, certainly not an external cause anyway.
There's a recent study showing that autism presents itself well before the MMR is given.
www.autismspeaks.org...
The amount of children who have events which are considered severe after the MMR are very few indeed and the majority of those severe events are essentially allergic reactions to one of the ingredients.
However even these events are transient and the child will recover (given that they receive the proper medical care in time) so to suggest that there are permanent disabilities caused by MMR specifically has no basis in fact at all.
New Study: Hepatitis B Vaccine Triples the Risk of Autism in Infant Boys
www.huffingtonpost.com...
They've already had a Hep B vaccine at birth which, so those who were going to go Autistic after MMR will likely have also been damaged by Hep B (this is showing in their lack of eye contact), especially if their mother took lots of Tylenol / Paracetamol during pregnancy, weakening the unborns liver.
Firstly, that article's 4 years old so it's not exact;y a "new" study.
Secondly, the study was only on boys. I believe there are girls with autism.
Thirdly, not every baby gets the Hep B vaccine.
Fourthly, the study's not that good. leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk...
OneManArmy
Pardon?
Rubinstein
Pardon?
However I would say that in the vast majority of cases of autism etc there isn't one specific cause or even trigger, certainly not an external cause anyway.
There's a recent study showing that autism presents itself well before the MMR is given.
www.autismspeaks.org...
The amount of children who have events which are considered severe after the MMR are very few indeed and the majority of those severe events are essentially allergic reactions to one of the ingredients.
However even these events are transient and the child will recover (given that they receive the proper medical care in time) so to suggest that there are permanent disabilities caused by MMR specifically has no basis in fact at all.
New Study: Hepatitis B Vaccine Triples the Risk of Autism in Infant Boys
www.huffingtonpost.com...
They've already had a Hep B vaccine at birth which, so those who were going to go Autistic after MMR will likely have also been damaged by Hep B (this is showing in their lack of eye contact), especially if their mother took lots of Tylenol / Paracetamol during pregnancy, weakening the unborns liver.
Firstly, that article's 4 years old so it's not exact;y a "new" study.
Secondly, the study was only on boys. I believe there are girls with autism.
Thirdly, not every baby gets the Hep B vaccine.
Fourthly, the study's not that good. leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk...
lol, its four years old, it cant possibly be true. /sarcasm
I wonder do you ever read your posts back to yourself?
I dont need to argue with you, you ruin your own credibility.
boncho
I don't get it, there was an outbreak recently, and 10% of the kids were hospitalized:
Measles is endemic worldwide. Although it was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, high rates of vaccination and good communication with persons who refuse vaccination is needed to prevent outbreaks and sustain the elimination of measles in the U.S.[13] Of the 66 cases of measles reported in the U.S. in 2005, slightly over half were attributable to one unvaccinated individual who acquired measles during a visit to Romania.[14] This individual returned to a community with many unvaccinated children. The resulting outbreak infected 34 people, mostly children and virtually all unvaccinated; 9% were hospitalized, and the cost of containing the outbreak was estimated at $167,685. A major epidemic was averted due to high rates of vaccination in the surrounding communities.[13]
Forget money for a second, you are speaking about morality. You nearly insinuate the vaccine doesn't work, but in stark contrast the disease rates in the US are almost nil today, just 50 years ago the rates were 250-750,000 cases a year. Vaccines were introduced, and pretty quickly dropped to 30-60,000 cases, and within two decades were down to a couple thousand people.
Recently, 10% of an outbreak were hospitalized. It's moral to risk people's lives like that when we have methods of eradicating disease? If we have a vaccine for HIV or Cancer, we shouldn't make it mandatory?
Here is a newsflash, people are self destructive and apathetic sometimes. Now of course if you were born during the disease heydays, you might not be. People were very welcome to vaccinations when their friends were being crippled with polio, a trip far away might land you TB, typhoid and you had to go through a bout of measles, or pertussis. And oh crap, couple of our kids died.
By the way, the Anti-Vax crowd is FEAR MONGERING. You realize they haven't put any worthwhile studies together right? That it's all based off crap? Yeah, that's fear mongering.
What does Syria have to do with vaccinations? That's like saying we should stop eating bananas cause apples are red.
I don't know where has "forced vaccinations." Many are optional, some are mandatory. But in most circumstances when they become mandatory it's for good reason:
An estimated 300 million people died from smallpox in the 20th century alone. This virulent disease, which kills a third of those it infects, is known to have co-existed with human beings for thousands of years. As the world's population grew, and travel increased, so the virus that Edward Jenner called the "speckled monster" grasped every opportunity to colonise the world.
www.bbc.co.uk...
Dear god man, 300 million people. But I'm sure you care about morality. You would have run around back then warning people of evil government and evil vaccinations.
Not sure what generation you people are from but I spent my early childhood listening to horror stories from my great grandparents, grandparents, and parents.
Smallpox, polio, pertussis, flu, TB… I heard about them all. Met people that lived through them, met people that lost family members to them, etc.
The way vaccines work, requires people to continue taking them until the disease is gone. Stops popping up. With the way travel is today, probably until it's eradicated worldwide. But yes, if something like a small pox epidemic pops up, I am all for forced immunization. But as I said, most if not all are optional these days. Sadly people like yourself have been misguided, and most likely if you lived 100-200 years ago, you'd be the same person bitching for someone to save you when your city was hit with an epidemic.
OneManArmy
boncho
It doesn't work that way. If you want to prove your hypothesis right, prove it right. You don't make scientific discovery by claiming someone's work is shoddy, it's just not scientific. You know, the whole "method" part of it all.
It does work that way, pharmaceutical corporations have been feeding us biased "scientific" studies for decades not to mention contaminated drugs.
Lies, Damn Lies and Drug Trials
The Big Fat Pharmaceutical Lie
Drug Recalls - Source FDA
It worked for the pharmaceutical companies to totally discredit Dr Wakefield by calling his work shoddy.
Rubinstein
boncho
It doesn't work that way. If you want to prove your hypothesis right, prove it right. You don't make scientific discovery by claiming someone's work is shoddy, it's just not scientific. You know, the whole "method" part of it all.
If there is any truth to your anti-vax rhetoric, why not simply provide evidence? You realize the anti-vax crowd has been lying to you right? You realize they did studies awhile ago that had terrible conflicts of interest right? You realize they haven't been able to put out any legitimate studies and resort to bending the truth, telling half truths and flat out lies right?
You realize that nearly every anti-vax poster in this thread doesn't post sources right? Neither do the big ones. (you know, the "foundations" and "associations" [the one's soliciting for money]) It's all "Your government is trying to kill you this, and, my baby has autism that", just a giant blob of anecdotal bull snip.
I very much doubt you're interested in the studies, your agenda is to market vaccines and neutralize those who speak out against vaccines. Here are some concerning studies for those who want to learn more:-
Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
"These findings demonstrate a counter-intuitive relationship: nations that require more vaccine doses tend to have higher infant mortality rates."
Self-Organized Criticality Theory of Autoimmunity
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.../22014010/related
Conclusions/Significance
Systemic autoimmunity appears to be the inevitable consequence of over-stimulating the host's immune ‘system’ by repeated immunization with antigen, to the levels that surpass system's self-organized criticality.
Association between type 1 diabetes and Hib vaccine
www.bmj.com...
"the potential risk of the vaccine exceeds the potential benefit"
Human papilloma virus vaccine and primary ovarian failure: another facet of the autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
Whooping cough and pertussis vaccine: a comparison of risks and benefits in Britain
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
"It is concluded that, in children living in non-deprived circumstances in Britain, the risk of pertussis vaccine during the period 1970-83 exceeded those of whooping cough. In some deprived sectors, the risks from whooping cough might have been marginally higher but there was no evidence that this was associated with any increase in deaths or permanent disabilities."
Regarding the Polio Vaccines which Bill Gates sent to India. According to researchers the vaccines spread a disease more dangerous and twice as deadly as Polio.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2012 Apr-Jun;9(2):114-7.
"…while India has been polio-free for a year, there has been a huge increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP). In 2011, there were an extra 47,500 new cases of NPAFP. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio received. Though this data was collected within the polio surveillance system, it was not investigated. The principle of primum-non-nocere [First, do no harm] was violated."
Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
"The review showed that reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions and spurious notoriety of the studies. "
Here's a video of the former CDC Chief admitting that vaccines trigger Autism
CDC Chief Admits that Vaccines Trigger Autism
www.youtube.com...
edit on 21-11-2013 by Rubinstein because: (no reason given)
Pardon?
But you lot are good at ignoring important facts aren't you?
Pardon?
First things first, you ARE anti-vax. 100%.
Akragon
Easy there people... Lets try to stick to the topic and not start attacking one another... again!
Please?
much appreciated.... Im enjoying this debate very much