Huge Meta-Study Of Vaccines Reveals No Link To Autism

[George Oilwell]

Scientists are sometimes accused of producing results we already know. The problem however, can be in defining “we”. The evidence that vaccinating children does not cause autism is overwhelming, but plenty of individuals and organizations don't want to hear it. The fact that the latest work is published in the journal Vaccine will no doubt be all they need to dismiss this research as well.

Huge Meta-Study Of Vaccines Reveals No Link To Autism

Time to kill this silly myth once and for all.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Well, are we supposed to believe a huge number of well-run studies or a Playboy Bunny?

I would say that it's likely that everyone of the scientists and researchers involved in the OP had their clothes on when they gathered their results and everyone knows that wearing clothes restricts the flow of blood to your brain and makes you stupid. Therefore, they're not as reliable as the Bunny.

 

[Bronzeage]

A chemical compound which is created to prevent deadly and crippling diseases turn out to be good for people. Whodathunkit?

 

[doubtingt]

So now can be enact Fed laws banning all non-vaccinated persons from public schools and all other public places, with zero allowed exceptions for any religious reasons?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

True story... my daughter's 18 month appointment was this week and my wife and daughter are going down to Columbus to see family. OSU is having a measles and mumps outbreak and I was wondering about the dangers of "the meeps" for my daughter (who has received all of her necessary vaccinations up to 18 months). I realized what I said and corrected myself.

The anti-vac'ers have turned another page in my life. You have certain standpoints in life that are more theoretical than based on experience. Then you go through events and that gives you an altered perspective. For instance, I was pro-choice prior to my daughter being born, and I'm now even more solidly pro-choice after her birth. Anti-vaccinations and the potential threat they pose made me laugh at Jenny McCarthy before my daughter. Now I'm very angry at people like her (who ironically are vaccinated from the diseases that can seriously harm those children they say shouldn't be vaccinated from). They need to be exposed for the ridiculous, harmful agents of ignorance they are... nationally.

 

[repoman]

Well, is autism increasing or is the diagnosis catching more autism that persists at the same rate as before?

If the former, it is likely an environmental cause that would seem to have a chemical, viral or bacterial cause. If the latter, then it would be a genetic and/or standard developmental (even gestational) disorder.

However, I could see chemical pollutants acting at the fetal stage of development.

Here is a new study linking it to air pollution. Maybe this will be have some level of truth to it, but ironically it could also be the new focus of the hysteria. However, decreasing air pollution doesn't have the downsides of decreasing vaccinations.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/harvard-draws-link-between-autism-and-air-pollution/article_53b6a81e-91ac-58f8-8556-70e6eac70cd1.html

So, should pregnant women and women planning to have kids soon where professional filter masks during inversions?

Anecdotally, I have ridden my bicycle in Seattle a couple of times when there was a rare temperature inversion. It was up near 23rd and Madison for those familiar. It was like having my mouth on the end of an exhaust pipe. Totally foul! I won't ride in those conditions again, that is not a "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" situation.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Well, is autism increasing or is the diagnosis catching more autism that persists at the same rate as before?

If the former, it is likely an environmental cause that would seem to have a chemical, viral or bacterial cause. If the latter, then it would be a genetic and/or standard developmental (even gestational) disorder.

1) The increase in autism diagnoses correspond with a decrease in some other developmental issues. It's not that the actual number of cases are going up, it's that our diagnoses are more accurate.

2) I would expect to see an increase in autism. It appears to have a genetic component. Those on the autism spectrum are far less at a disadvantage in jobs where they work with a computer rather than people and it's actually something of an advantage when doing such jobs besides. Thus we have an industry that concentrates those with autism disorders. While autism really fucks one over in the romantic department that doesn't apply to fellow autistics--in other words, the computer revolution has increased the chance that an autistic will find a mate and has increased the chance that that mate is also on the spectrum.

 

[Bronzeage]

So now can be enact Fed laws banning all non-vaccinated persons from public schools and all other public places, with zero allowed exceptions for any religious reasons?

One would hope.

I haven't heard of any major religious group objecting to vaccines on any theological reasons. Even the Jehovah's Witnesses allow it. The material I have read about religious authorities and vaccines indicate there is more concern with the method used to create the vaccine. Jews and Muslims don't want a vaccine prepared using pig cells. The Catholic Church doesn't want vaccines which use human embryonic cells. That's understandable.

 

[repoman]

Yikes, Toni Braxton thought (before in her memoir) that her previous abortion was punished by god in the form of her son being born with autism.