Posted on 09/01/2014 12:50:02 PM PDT by porter_knorr
CDC Senior Scientist William Thompson has alleged that a 2004 study he co-authored omitted key data that would have revealed a link between autism and a commonly-required childhood vaccine, MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella).
“I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism,” said Thompson in a statement issued through his attorney Wednesday.
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Imagine that.The C.D.C.Withheld information that was vital to the parents who needed that information on the efficacy and danger of reactions to the MMR vaccine prior to injuring their children.
My Son was a perfectly normal kid when he was born.He didn’t become the socially withdrawn person he is today until after that shot was administered.
I just wish I could take that back.Funny thing is that there were appointments where I explained my sons behavior to his Pediatrician.It was as if the Pediatrician knew but was not going to take responsibility for it.
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I am so sorry to hear that your son was impacted negatively.
I don’t vaccinate my daughter - in hindsight with the Autism links, I’m glad I didn’t. I didn’t think it was healthy in general.
“He didn’t become the socially withdrawn person he is today until after that shot was administered.”
This needs to be said, as insensitive as it may seem to you.
You have no actual evidence that the vaccine has any relation to your sons symptoms, do you?
I know you do not, because there is no actual scientific evidence anywhere.
It’s only responsible for you to point that out when you tell your story, otherwise people will get the wrong idea about vaccines.
You telling your story like you tell it will get children killed from preventable childhood diseases if parents listen to you.
So please come clean.
“I don’t vaccinate my daughter - in hindsight with the Autism links, I’m glad I didn’t. I didn’t think it was healthy in general.”
If you believe the statistical correlation regarding autism, you should also believe the statistical certainty of contracting childhood diseases and the harm they do to children who get them.
One statistic is much more significant than the other. If you are going to rely on “herd” immunity for your children, you are very unwise especially in this age of unchecked illegal immigration.
Lack of vaccination causes outbreaks of childhood disease and complications of those diseases far outweigh any unproven link between vaccination and autism.
“This needs to be said, as insensitive as it may seem to you.
You have no actual evidence that the vaccine has any relation to your sons symptoms, do you?
I know you do not, because there is no actual scientific evidence anywhere.
It’s only responsible for you to point that out when you tell your story, otherwise people will get the wrong idea about vaccines.”
Yea!the evidence was there but the C.D.C. refused to publicize it.Its not my job to know what Scientific evidence there is or was.All I know is what I see.
Its either the M.M.R. Vaccine or all of the extra vaccines these Doctors are required to give by the Government.
I know this My Son was a healthy happy kid when he was youngster.Then when he got into school he was very Socially inadequate.He was uncomfortable being around his cousins.Who were his age.
Things didn’t start to turn around until we got him a lot of psychological help.
My son has improved quite a lot compared to where he was,but when compared to a member of his age cohort he’s still behind.
Its something my wife and I have had to live with everyday even though there are improvements its still tough.
“Yea!the evidence was there but the C.D.C. refused to publicize it.Its not my job to know what Scientific evidence there is or was.All I know is what I see.”
“The Evidence” Did you even read the article? They spoke of a possible statistical correlation of a subgroup. The follow-on article explained flaws with that correlation. There was no “evidence” presented.
I’m sorry about your sons struggles, but it wasn’t vaccines that did it.
You’re doing all you can do with your son (I have a little experience with it in my family).
Did you die from any childhood diseases?
I didn’t think so...neither did I!
Why did your comment need to be said?
I doubt this is the first “mis-reporting” of statistical data, twisting to show the results being what they want.
It’s just the first one that has been publicized.
“Did you die from any childhood diseases?”
I also didn’t get polio. Did you?
I didn’t get smallpox either, nor have I gotten tentanus.
I also didn’t get Autism.
You are spreading dangerous anecdotal supposition. People SHOULD get their kids vaccinated, especially now with illegal immigration unchecked.
“Why did your comment need to be said?”
Because your advice will kill children. Period.
I hope your daughter doesn’t get the PREVENTABLE diseases that you refuse to vaccinate her against. But unfortunately for her, it will be only luck that is the biggest factor in her not contracting childhood disease, since you are not a responsible parent in that regard.
“I doubt this is the first “mis-reporting” of statistical data, twisting to show the results being what they want.”
Do you think the efficacy of vaccinations in preventing disease is misreported?
Do you think the dramatic reduction in death and disability from childhood diseases over the past 75 years is misreported?
Small pox eventually exterminated itself when people had access to clean water, good food, clean living conditions, and proper hygiene.
I did however, have a friend who got polio from the polio vaccination at 10, in the 60's. She was a paraplegic who died of lung cancer. Had she had full use of her lungs, would have realized there was a problem much sooner and may have been able to be treated. The only places there are still polio outbreaks are in places they give the oral vaccination.
We don't give Tamiflu when you don't have the flu, why should we be over medicating children based on hysterical "you may die" when in reality, most childhood diseases are a normal part of growing up and growing a healthy immune system. Your argument is based just as much on emotion as you claim to another poster.
Measles - treatable. Even with the vaccination as a kid, and two as a college student (didn't have proof at either college) I am not immune to measles, I found that out when I was pregnant. So I took personal responsibility and watched who I was around.
Chicken Pox - treatable.
Mumps - Treatable
Whooping Cough - Treatable
HPV Vaccination - teachable and preventable.
Maybe you can show me a study that shows vaccines are safe. You know, like a Double-blind, inert/saline placebo-controlled clinical trials.
If not that-- maybe you can show a study that shows how vaccinated children are healthier than unvaccinated children.
Oh wait, that probably doesn't exist either, maybe you could show me a study that proves vaccines do not have adverse reactions. Oh wait, even the CDC and package inserts show that not to be true, I know, there's got to be some way you can prove you are right.
Show me studies that prove vaccines do not cause any health conditions, including the ones they’re designed to prevent...again, that CDC warning, vaccination warnings, and gov vaccination fund rule this out.
Ok, since you said it first, show studies that show that herd immunity applies to vaccinations. Not just presumptions- show the proof (especially the mumps break out that just happened to a completely vaccinated group of college kids)
We know they don't give lifetime immunity, we know there is risk for taking them, we know people DIE from them...so really, isn't it up to the parents - not the gov, and not doctors to really have all the information, not just scare tactics to choose the best route for their family?
It’s rather revealing that you choose to call me a not responsible parent without knowing any health issues in a family on why someone may stay away from vaccinations.
That’s usually what a liberal, nanny state believer does.
Nothing personal. Your opinion needs to be refuted vigorously to save lives.
Are you saying vaccines do not work?
Don’t waste your time trying to reason with these folks, they are emotional not logical.
Autism is a tough disease to deal with, and it tramatic for a family to deal with what appears to be a normally developing child to suddenly introvert... of course they want to blame something for it. So they blame vaccines.
You can’t sway them with facts, its emotional and personal. Its far easier to blame some grand conspiracy of the government and or the medical community than to accept that their child sadly has a mental developmental disorder.
I am not beyond believing their may be an environmental influencer with autism, but there is little doubt it has a very major genetic component. Vaccine’s are not that environmental influencer however.
Again, you won’t win this argument. Most parents today have no idea what these preventable childhood diseases look like. Hopefully their children will be lucky and not wind up paralyzed from polio or other diseases.
Immunizations have made them next to unheard of so they have no idea how horrible they were before that.
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