Research Supports Autism-Vaccine Link
There are many studies that indicate vaccines are linked to autism.? Unfortunately, studies that are often cited by government officials and agencies as proving that there is no autism-vaccine link continue to contain substantial design flaws, overreaching interpretations of findings and are often conducted by individuals with conflicts of interest with the vaccine industry and public health officials whose livelihood depends on vaccine promotion. The 2003 Congressional Report, Mercury in Medicine – Taking Unnecessary Risks, after a three year investigation, noted the following:
i) “To date, studies conducted or funded by the CDC that purportedly dispute any correlation between autism and vaccine injury have been of poor design, under-powered, and fatally flawed. The CDC’s rush to support and promote such research is reflective of a philosophical conflict in looking fairly at emerging theories and clinical data related to adverse reactions from vaccinations.”
The most recent study demonstrating the link was conducted by the University of Pittsburgh. The study’s findings were released in May and showed that infant monkeys given vaccines officially recommended by the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) exhibited autism-like symptoms. Unvaccinated animals showed no such adverse outcomes.
The vaccines given were those recommended for U.S. infants in the 1990s, including several with the mercury preservative thimerosal and the Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine. Rates of autism spectrum disorder among children born in the 1990s surged dramatically, from about 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 150 children. The University of Pittsburgh presented these study results at the most recent International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) in London.
Like the many studies that support a link, this research underscores the critical need for additional investigation into the role of vaccines in autism.
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Yes, vaccines cause autism , just like they cause smallpox. Oh, wait...
Do not underestimate the Power of Autism
You site flaws in studies that say ther is no link but fail to realize that studies showing a link are purely anecdotal and are far more flawed. Is there a link? Until there is some kind of real scientific proof I have to lean to the side of No
Where is the science ? where is the science ? where is the science ?
If I had a dollar for everytime I have had heard that I would be a very wealthy woman , but if I had even 50 cents for the amount of times a parent has said there child regressed after vaccines then I would be a billionaire !!
I do not know about all of you out there but I don't believe I will still be here in 50 years to see if science has finally proven the Autism - Vaccine link . Actually its a pretty safe bet to say we won't even see that in 100 years !
Quite frankly I know I cannot sit and wait say even another 20 years and watch more and more arguing going on and wait for science to catch up all while my children suffer. CAN any of you ? Are you ok with this ? How many years should we wait - 20, 30 , 40 ?
I mean just as long as science proves it right - comeon !
Of all the thousands of parents over the years who report the same problems and the same common link ALL AROUND THE WORLD - don't you all think that bares a little more substance then university graduates who have only learned what they were told to learn in the first place?
Yes thats right people - told what they are allowed to learn !
There are vastly more who have taken the vaccines who have no problems, enough to suggest that it's something else causing the Autism. As long as you concentrate on the dead end of Vaccine related Autism the real causes will remain undiscovered. The reason children regress after vaccines is that the normal age of Autism onslaught is about the same as the age vaccines are given, pure coincidence.
I have a son who lost most of his skills after having 4 vaccines in one day and the next week having the flu shot. He is now recovering, thank God. It has been a very long 2 year battle and is still ongoing, but we have about 85% of our child back. I do have to say that I had no idea my son was given shots just hours after birth. It is terrible the amount of drugs that are given to our children before they are 2 years old. My son had 27 vaccines. We do feel there is also an environmental issue that has yet to be discovered, it would be wise to look at that closely too. I can only hope that there is a way to continue vaccines that are an absolute and get rid of the ones that are just for the benefit of the higher ups in the medical industry. There is a solution, it just has to be found. I hope I get to see it in my lifetime and especially in my son's.
You quote a congressional report - which is not science and link through to an unpublished study which suffers from the following conflicts:
1) Laura Hewitson is part of the Omnibus Autism class action
2) Her husband works at Thoughtful House
It also suffers from the fairly substantial issue that her paper - which is claimed to show a link between autism and vaccines - doesn't actually describe any symptoms of autism at all.
"survival reflexes, tests of color discrimination and reversal, and learning sets. Differences in behaviors were observed between exposed and unexposed animals and within the exposed group before and after MMR vaccination. Compared with unexposed animals, exposed animals showed attenuation of amygdala growth and differences in the amygdala binding of [11C]diprenorphine. Interaction models identified significant associations between specific aberrant social and non-social behaviors, isotope binding, and vaccine exposure."
How do you diagnose autism in a monkey?