Over the last decade, autism has gone from a rare and misunderstood condition to a disorder that may affect as many as 1.5 million Americans. Without a clear explanation in sight, parents and doctors have worked tirelessly to pinpoint the cause of autism, but the answer remains elusive. Are vaccines the missing link?
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Research Supports Autism-Vaccine Link
- From SafeMinds
By SafeMinds - Autism Mercury Thimerosal
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Where is the science?
You quote a congressional report - which is not science and link through to an unpublished study which suffers from the following conflicts: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?
- Kev Leitch
August 8, 2008 2:26AM
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Seeing is believing
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.
- Windy Stacey
August 29, 2008 8:25PM
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Waiting a lifetime for science while the children still suffer !
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 !
- itsnotgenetic September 15, 2008 3:57AM
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That's the problem
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.
- tbcass
October 1, 2008 7:02AM
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Link has never been established.
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
- tbcass
October 1, 2008 6:57AM
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