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Video: Donald Trump Claims Autism is Caused by Vaccines
Donald Trump chose the fifth annual World Autism Awareness Day to reveal on Fox News that he strongly believes that autism is linked to childhood vaccines (video below).
In a Monday interview on Fox News, Trump said: “I’ve seen people where they have a perfectly healthy child, and they go for the vaccinations and a month later the child is no longer healthy. It happened to somebody that worked for me recently. I mean, they had this beautiful child, not a problem in the world, and all of the sudden they go in and they get this monster shot."
"You ever see the size of it? It’s like they’re pumping in — you know, it’s terrible, the amount. And they pump this in to this little body and then all of the sudden the child is different a month later. I strongly believe that’s it.”
However, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that children who developed autism had less exposure to vaccines that contained mercury.
A 1998 article, published by British medical journal The Lancet, that linked autism to vaccinations was retracted in 2010 after it was discovered that the study’s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, had been paid by a lawyer suing vaccine makers.
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I'm glad to see Donald Trump
I'm glad to see Donald Trump stating his opinion on Vaccines linked to Autism. The increase in Autism diagnosis is huge compared to previous generations. However, it is not just Autism, there are a slew of learning differences and other neurological and physical conditions, even Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)all linked to Vaccinations. In the majority of cases, the noted change in the child's abilities or incident of SIDS happens within 21 days of a vaccination and most with in one week.
In fact, though almost all scientific evidence linking vaccines to once rare conditions can be explained away by some error in the testing, no one can explain why the significant increase in these diagnosed conditions, corresponds to the exact time in history, when a series of early childhood vaccinations became common practice and eventually required in most countries.
I also agree, you cannot argue against the overall good of vaccines but 1) we have to make them safer and 2) I personally recommend all parents hold off on vaccines until their child is at least 1 year old. As a parent you have this right, in most states.
On another note, I also highly recommend doing your best to nurse your baby for the first year; this provides the best immunity building nurishment that cannot be duplicated in formula. My children are 23, 21 and 16 and are rarely sick to this day. I was and continue to be a working professional. For the first six months they had expressed milk in bottles during the workdays and nursed in the evenings and weekends...they went to formula during the day at six months but I continued to nurse evenings and weekends until each child was one year old. This was to support my decision not to vaccinate until each child was 1 year old and I knew they needed the immunity I could passed on to them while they nursed. I made it work. Whatever challenges I suffered, paid off in dividends, rarely having to take off for a sick child in the years that followed.
You are spouting completely
You are spouting completely unsubstantiated *LIES!* The number of lives saved and the number of permanent disabilities prevented by vaccines far outweigh any of the risks. The neurological risks of vaccines are completely unproven. In fact, studies have shown the exact opposite.
Yes... vaccines stimulate immune responses. In some very rare instances, children do not react well. However, compare that to the damage caused by the diseases these vaccines prevent, and there is NO question that vaccinating children is the RIGHT decision.
The reason your children did not contract a debilitating illness in their first year of life is because most of the people around them had been vaccinated. Nursing your children was an excellent decision, but it does not make your children immune to pertussis or the measles, which used to kill many children under the age of one.
You have the right to take some risks you children, but you cannot advocate those risks for others and call them "good decisions." It is precisely this type of nonsense that puts all children at risk
Even if vaccines caused
Even if vaccines caused autism (and there's no actual, peer-reviewed evidence that says they do) it's a worthwhile trade-off when compared to dead children in almost every family.
I have been diagnosed with high-functioning autism. I'm not very verbal and I have endured a much rougher life than if I had not been born with autism. However, I like being alive and I like having two surviving siblings. My eldest brother was not so lucky. He died of an illness for which there was no commonly used vaccine (meningitis) in the late sixties. My family was devastated by the loss of their little boy and my parents never recovered fully, in part because my father is likely a high-functioning autistic himself. I think I can say with a high degree of certainty that they were far more devastated by my brother's death than by my autism. I also have a sister who suffered partial hearing loss believed to be from getting measles before she was old enough to get vaccinated.
I admit I'm a mild case, like the majority of people being diagnosed with autism in the "epidemic." I'll admit that being even a high-functioning autistic person sucks a lot. But I'd rather be autistic and alive and not have to see the majority of families struggling with the death of a child as my family did. I'll bet that the vast majority of autistic people would rather be alive with a full set of healthy, living siblings, too.
If people stop vaccinating, one in eighty-eight surviving children will likely still have autism (unless we are slightly more fragile, in which case more of us would die and make the "epidemic" shrink because we died before diagnosis) and then they'll be autistic and dealing with grief, loss, and a smaller family support structure instead of just dealing with being autistic.
It is amazing to me that
It is amazing to me that anyone would not vaccinate their children. Anyone saying we shouldn't doesn't know their history.
In the early 1970s I came down with german measles (rubella). My mother was pregnant at the time and was not immune, and my exposure to her killed my unborn sibling in the womb. Even if this baby had been born, it would have been profoundly retarded and otherwise disabled. My father is nearly deaf because of nerve damaged caused by the measles which he came down with in the late 30s. Today, rubella and the measles are almost unheard of except in children whose parents refuse to vaccinate.
Polio anyone? How about pertussis? Tetanus? What about the permanent and reoccurring nerve damage caused by chicken pox? How about hepatitis which can kill when you are sick or kill you later by increasing your risk of liver cancer?
As we can see with diseases like small pox, some diseases can be completely eliminated when we have nearly universal vaccination. There is a very good chance that polio will end up next on that list. Until there are no more wild cases of a particular disease, we must continue to vaccinate. This misinformation about vaccines is what has caused deadly outbreaks of several diseases which had previously all but disappeared.
Donald trump is a moron. He is unqualified to say anything about vaccines. His acceptance of the birther controversy shows how willing he is to eat BS from any source he finds reasonable.
It floors me that people have
It floors me that people have already forgotten this history and we're only talking about the sixties and seventies! My eldest brother died from an illness for which there is now a vaccine. My sister suffered hearing loss from measles.
Just fifty or sixty years ago virtually every family was affected by death or maiming caused by childhood illnesses now preventable with vaccines! If you don't believe it just ask your grandparents how many of their siblings and classmates did not live to adulthood or were maimed by childhood illnesses.
There are a lot of people
There are a lot of people opposed to vacines. As to the actual truth, who knows. Just like everything else, you can find a study to support anything you want. Donald Trump is not a doctor, who cares what he thinks or says?
My grandson Davin died 4
My grandson Davin died 4 months after birth from his 3rd series of vaccine. In 1983 the required Injections from birth to 6 years old was 10 shots with 30 Antigens. Now in 2012 from 0-6 years old is 40 shots with up to 140 antigens loaded with harmful chemicals, Aluminum, Mercury, Formaldehyde, Poly Sorbate 80 proven to cause neurological disorders plus injecting RNA/DNA of animals. Will your child’s DNA ever be the same?
Google search ( Toxic Over Load Children Vaccinated To Extreme )
* Fact - Never have they done studies of the cumulative effects of all vaccine ingredients and they keep adding more vaccines to the mix.
Here is another critical point. If the mother and father had all their shots then when the mother got pregnant some of the vaccine genetic materials where passed on to the fetus. So as you can see this newborn childs health was already under attack even before birth. Please educate before you vaccinate.
We need to get the word out to many children are being assaulted, damaged, murdered and big pHarma is getting away with it. Let us STOP this madness.
Robert http://healthyheartfast.com
Really? Polysorbate 80
Really? Polysorbate 80 proven to cause neurological disorders? If you can find a study that shows that, I'd be interested in seeing it. Especially since the average American or European eats 100 mg of it every day, and lab animals in studies where it made up 20% of their food intake showed no significant health effects. I find it hard to believe that the 25 micrograms of it used in vaccines could cause any health issues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysorbate_80
The amount of aluminum you get in your average diet every day is 30-50mg, yet in the first 6 months of life an infant might receive as much as 4 milligrams of aluminum through vaccines: during that same time period the infant will receive 10 milligrams through breast milk alone, and 12 times more than that with formula. http://vaccinecentral.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/vaccine-misconception-of-the-day-aluminum-in-vaccines/ There's been dozens of studies done in the last 20 years on the effects of aluminum in vaccines, and none of them have turned up any evidence of adverse long-term effects. http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400319/Aluminum-A-Vaccine-Danger.html
I won't even go into the fallacies of your statement that vaccines are loaded with "harmful chemicals", that vaccines do or even could make any changes to a child's (or anyone's) DNA, or that vaccinations the parents have received get passed on to the child genetically. You talk about people needing to educate themselves, yet you yourself are putting forth large amounts of misinformation and what appears to be fantasy.
Moms with gut instincts are no substitute for facts and evidence.
If you can produce one single
If you can produce one single scientific study showing or even suggesting a link between vaccines and autism that hasn't been discredited as a falsification of evidence or a gross misinterpretation of the data, I'd very much like to see it - and so would the rest of the world. The person conducting that study would certainly win the Nobel prize at least once.
Why would anyone accept Trump as an expert on anything other than taking a lot of money and some land and turning it into a bit more money? He certainly has zero education in medicine, biology, or epidemiology, and he's got a long, long history of saying abrasive and crazy stuff to gain attention and try to get the spotlight on himself.
Where does he get this fixation of watching people's children before and after vaccination and diagnosis of autism? And it happened to ONE of his employees? Get this man a stethoscope and a medical degree!
There's far, far more evidence pointing to other causes - such as the discovery that autistic children uniformly have a different strain of bacteria in their digestive tract that is not found in children without autism. It's not a conclusive finding, but it is millions of times more credible than this manufactured link between vaccines and autism that is being spread by the fearful and ignorant.
THanks doc holloway. Nice
THanks doc holloway. Nice synopsis!
THanks doc holloway. Nice
THanks doc holloway. Nice synopsis!
The definition in DSM4,
The definition in DSM4, revised in 2000 was the last time autism definition was changed. A change in definition cannot account for the rise in autism after 2000. 2009 California study found that the reported increases are unlikely to be explained by changes in how qualifying condition codes for autism were recorded. There are a handful of studies that have duplicated Wakefeilds findings. I believe there are a number of environmental factors that are driving the increase in autism. My position is that vaccines or the Tylenol use prophylactically contribute to regressive autism. The last I heard, kids get vaccinated at a couple days old. It is alarming that some vaccine experts are recommending not to breastfeed so that the mothers antibodies don't interfere with the babies exposure to the vaccine. In essence, they recommend to remove the mothers blanket of protection in order to have the vaccine cause a larger insult on the babies immune system. When exposed to ingredients in the vaccine, the babies genes and immune system are radically change, causing immune dysfunction and pro-inflammatory. This may set the stage for the big immune insult at 1.5 years vaccine. In summary, the first vaccine at a couple days primes the immune system to react to the second and third vaccine exposure when regression is initiated be inflammation explosion, recumbinant virus activity, autoimmunity, etc.
I wish Donald could tell the
I wish Donald could tell the CDC "YOU'RE FIRED"
Autism is not an epidemic!
Autism is not an epidemic! Part of the reason why so many kids are being diagnosed now is that the criteria for diagnosis has changed in the last 15-20 years, children who would have just been seen as odd, strange or received a mental retardation label are now receiving the diagnosis of Autism 'Spectrum' Disorder. Meaning that there are some kids who have slight social and communication problems and then the other end where kids are unable to communicate or speak. Many of the kids who are referred to as high functioning wouldn't have been diagnosed previously. These diagnosis are good because it helps educational and psychological professionals help these kids reach their full potential. People like Donald Trump should not be stating opinion on things they do not understand. Vaccinations have no correlation to Autism. Also Donald Trump states in his speech that he knew of a child who was perfectly healthy at 2 then went in for vaccinations and a month later was a different child. Regression of skills, particularly communication skills like early words, is a key symptom of Autism. This is not a due to vaccinations. I am not a person in the public eye but I am a Speech Therapist and I work with students with autism, I DO know what I am talking about. Donald Trump does not. Please vaccinate your children!
This is why I was not
This is why I was not diagnosed until I was an adult when undergoing treatment for PTSD. If my father (almost 79 years old now) were to be assessed, it's likely he'd also be diagnosed with high-functioning autism as he exhibits all the same symptoms and behaviors that led to my diagnosis, some with greater severity, only minus the epilepsy.
The new diagnostic criteria are helpful. Getting diagnosed in my late thirties was still helpful although a childhood diagnoses probably would have saved me a lot of grief. It helps me to understand why I'm weird and how I can alter my behavior to simulate being normal. The people sending the message that autism is a fate worse than death (because they'd prefer to return to the days of no vaccinations when one in five to one in ten kids died or were maimed by childhood illnesses) do not help. They also forget that those childhood illnesses also often caused mental retardation which could sometimes be worse than classical autism and far worse than high-functioning autism. Lack of vaccinations affects far more than one out of every eighty-eight people.
There's strong evidence dating back to studies from the mid-twentieth century showing very strong genetic connections involved in autism. Recent genetic studies strongly support the studies showing autism runs in families. To be blunt (my favorite autistic trait) I think some parents are so illogically ashamed of the possibility of autism coming from something in their genes that they'll believe absolutely anything that "lets them off the hook" and blames something else.
Autism IS an epidemic!
Autism IS an epidemic! Regardless of the fact that the diagnosis has changed, the simple fact is 1 in 88 children are diagnosed today. THAT IS AN EPIDEMIC! If 7 kids in a single community can be diagnosed with measles and be considered an epidemic than i would say 1 in 88 (1 in 54 boys) is considered an epidemic regardless of the way it was diagnosed 2 years, 5 years, or even 10 years ago. If there is a diagnosis of 1 in 88 for ANY OTHER disease or disability it is considered an epidemic but not for Autism?! It is people like Donald Trump who need to stand up for us! Yes he states that he witnessed a child regress at age 2 AND yes it is a key symptom of Autism. Do you know what causes Autism? Do you have scientific evidence to back that up? No child starts out perfectly healthy and magically regress's after a series of vaccinations! I am not against the IDEA of vaccinations but i am against vaccinations in today's world. They contain ingredients such as aluminum, formaldehyde, antibiotics, fetal tissue, cow tissue, polysorbate 80 and others in very HIGH DOSES! In no way is that ok to be injected into our little babies systems. And Donald Trump never said he was against vaccines. He said to spread them out. I wish we could stop wasting our energy denying what other people consider the cause of Autism and instead rally together to find a cause AND a cure (positive energy, not negative).
You cannot compare Autism to
You cannot compare Autism to the measles, it is not the same. Measles kills, autism makes a child different. Still a child, still alive. And not with something that can be cured. Autism involves the way an individual thinks, processes, understands, and interacts with the world. It affects the brain itself. If you were to 'cure' an individual with autism you would change something completely fundamental about them. Current research, yes scientific, is leaning towards possible genetic causality. No it isn't proven yet but there is evidence that supports it. Visit the National Fragile X Syndrome website for more info on those studies. Your statement 'No child starts out perfectly healthy and magically regress's after a series of vaccinations,' shows how little you know about Autism. This is a key diagnostic criteria for Autism, regardless of if the child was vaccinated. Also the timing of regression tends to be coincidental, generally a child is protected from many viruses and bacterial infections by the antibodies received in womb (until about 6 months) or through breast milk from its mother. That is why children are vaccinated at age 2, those protections are no longer there. A child with Autism generally makes some progress on communicative behavior such as first words and the thought is that then the autism starts to affect the brain in a noticeable way, the regression of skills. What would you have the vaccinations contain? Can you make a vaccination using happiness and rainbows that works to cure polio, whopping cough, etc? The vaccinations are there to protect children from diseases that do kill. I do agree I want people to rally to help support the children and families dealing with Autism, like better funding for teachers and researchers who develop techniques and ideas for that help. The children with autism become adults who think in different way than a lot of people and because of this they can do amazing things. Look up Temple Grandin. Or read 'Look me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's' by John Elder Robison.
Considering you are a Speech
Considering you are a Speech Pathologist who is supposed to "understand" our children you have a lot more learning to do. Yes Measles CAN kill (1 in 1000 die who contract measles). Autism does not kill but is a life sentence for these children that is avoidable with better food, cleaner environment, etc. I am a parent of a child with Autism and i would cure my baby in a heartbeat! And there are treatments out there to do just that with natural remedies. My son has made HUGE strides doing just that and i will continue to fight for him to have a happy independent life without having to depend on people. You listen WAY too much to what doctors "assume" because there is NO scientific evidence to base off of! Yes i would love to have vaccinations contain happiness and rainbows because last i checked they are supposed to be GOOD for you! I know of families who have lost their children from vaccine injuries as well as having brain damage. Polio does not occur in our country, Diptheria is rare in our country, Tetanus is virtually unheard of in the first 5 years of life and the disease risk is only 1 in 500,000 between ages 5 and 25, Pertussis risk is 1 in 3,333 in the first year of life, HIB's risk of a severe case is 1 in 200,000 in the first 2 years of life and risk after 2 is close to 0, severe cases of Measles, Mumps or Rubella are close to 0. If you did more research you would also see that vaccines are taking credit for eradicating many diseases when in reality it is due to cleaner living conditions. The link between sanitation and disease was discovered in the mid-1800s where sanitation and nutrition measures were introduced in Europe, Australia and North America. Measles vaccine was introduced in 1963 in the U.S. and according to the CDC's own records death from Measles had already declined to almost none by then. Diptheria vaccine was introduced in 1950 and by then the death rate already declined from 1500 deaths in 1880 to 100 in 1950. Whooping cough caused close to 1000 deaths in 1880 but by 1940, when the vaccine was introduced, the death rate had declined to fewer than 200. I would rather my children have a natural, healthy life the way God intended. And ofcourse you agree to just let this epidemic be because it will keep you working right? I've actually read all of Temple Grandin's books and love her. And I would suggest you read: "The vaccine Book" and "The Autism Book" by Dr. Sears as well as "Healing and Preventing Autism" by Jenny McCarthy and Jerry Kartzinel, "A Life To Rescue" by Karen Michelle Graham, and "Autism's False Prophets" by Paul Offit. I am sad to read how you feel about this epidemic and what to do for our children. I will pray for you and hope you are willing to keep an open mind about what could be going on. I don't specifically blame vaccines. I blame many things and would love to see research done on the areas us parents are concerned about. And let them prove us wrong! We don't care if we are right or wrong. We just want true studies to be done and find what is going on. Our voices need to be heard.
Actually, you can logically
Actually, you can logically compare Autism to measles or any other condition that afflicts a human being. It just depends on how you are doing so. The mechanism of action and the affect on the inflicted makes no difference. There is no logical fallacy. Assuming one knows causality for each medical condition is, however, a fallacy. The simple fact is that we don't know if and how vaccinations may be influential in the development of autism. Anyone that tells you different is not thinking scientifically, only emotionally. We do know that humans are exposed to more vaccination now than ever before. We also know that some of the contents of the vaccines can cause harm to the human immune and nervous systems. Example: aluminum in vaccines is used to force a reaction to a substance by an underdeveloped immune system that is otherwise unable to do so at these young ages. This is why a correlation to reactive airway diseases and allergies of all sorts has been found. It is inherently an unnatural way to try to convince an immune system to react to a potential disease. Note: forcing the body to produce antibodies that are measurable in the blood does not produce immunization. It just produces measurable antibodies that may or may not be enough to provide immunity. This is why fully vaccinated population can still have outbreaks of the disease they are supposedly vaccinated against.
What is also noteworthy is that there are no safety studies for vaccinating children under the age of two. It is all theoretical. This coupled with the laws enacted to protect vaccine companies from liability should be concerning to all parents.
What is also of concern regarding vaccines is the simple method they are administered for the most part. The immune system is designed to have a cascade of natural reactions (e.g. IgA or IgE production) after having been exposed to a substance via airways (nose, mouth inhalation). It is most definitely not designed to have a tiny spear-like object puncture the skin/muscle and inject a foreign substance directly into the bloodstream. However you want to argue the point, understand that this is simply not the way of things.
It is reasonable to suspect vaccinations in the insidious "epidemic-like" growth of autism. 1 in 10,000 down to 1 in 88 (depending on who you read) is reason for pause. Improvements in the identification of this disease cannot possibly account for such proportionate growth, not in this so-called modern era.
Regardless of what you believe, the choice as to how you raise your children should be yours and yours alone. If you trust the government and pharmaceutical companies, than vaccinate all you want. Double it if you like. If you don't feel it is the right thing to do, than don't. Or only give your child those vaccinations you have researched well and trust to be safe. We as citizens of the United States are supposed to have simple freedom to make our own choices with regard to our safety and that of our children. There are many logical discussions as to whether or not modern vaccines play any role in the low prevalence of previously epidemic-like diseases. The vaccine proponents are quick to try to credit for such things and not so quick to admit when mistakes have been made. There are plenty of discussions by people more well-versed on this subject than me, and they can explain over a long discussion how vaccines are not necessarily responsible for world-wide immunization. Believe what you like.
Ultimately, if you want to vaccinate, do so. If you have faith in such things, than you shouldn't worry if someone else's child isn't vaccinated. Yours is "protected" right? I personally know many, many families who don't allow for any vaccines whatsoever, and they raise perfectly healthy children. Research shows such children are measurably healthier in a variety of ways. Again, believe what you want and do what you feel is right.
Vaccines are for the
Vaccines are for the brainwashed...drugs dont make anyone healthy...its all a big lie..but its your body...drugs sell more drugs...
Really? So why do we no
Really? So why do we no longer have polio or smallpox in the United States?
I am not saying either way.
I am not saying either way. But I do know of several kids with autism that hasn't had the first vaccination. So you can't blame it all on vaccinations, that just doesn't add up.
I agree with trump.....I wish
I agree with trump.....I wish he could help us prove it....the FDA is never going to admitt it!!! NEVER !!! The money they get for the vaccinations is more important than the health of our children....I agree children need the vaccinations....but not as newborns or infants...there is no reason why we cant wait until they are 3 yrs old....lord kids dont even start school until age 5. I'm sorry but we need to look at the evidence....like they said autism is now an epidemic..spreading worse than AIDS or any other dieseases. 1 in every 88 US kids and 1 in every 38 in korea....Where does korea get vaccines??...HMMM think its the US. hink about it !!!
Just a note. Most school
Just a note. Most school districts start kindergarten at age 5-6 but most kids attend some form of preschool, pre-k or daycare much earlier. The vaccines protect kids. The reason they get them at age 2 is usually a child is protected from many diseases until then by the antibodies given by its mother, in the womb and then through breast milk. And my guess is that because Korea has a stricter education system, they catch more cases of autism that might not go noticed until later in the US. Yes we should look at scientific evidence, that scientific evidence states it is NOT vaccines that cause autism.
If you don't mind i would
If you don't mind i would like to see the scientific evidence stating that vaccines don't cause Autism. Last i knew they never did a study on it and because of that there is no scientific evidence to base it off of EITHER WAY.
Burden of proof is on the
Burden of proof is on the person making the positive claim I'm afraid, in this case it's that vaccines cause autism. Asking someone to prove a negative is asking them to scour the entire universe for every single case.
http://www.plosbiology.org/ar
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000114
I guess Trump is getting his talking points now from that blonde Playmate whose name I don't remember...