There is not, and never has been any evidence that the genetic disorder known as "autism" is in any way linked to vaccines. The "doctor" who originally published that bogus report that measles vaccine causes autism was very rightly stripped of his medical license. The report itself was extremely bad science, which should have never passed the peer-review process (especially for a highly regarded journal such as The Lancet). The "research" this "doctor" conducted was never reviewed by an ethics panel, and basically constituted dangerous and abusive procedures inflicted on toddlers. He had two financial incentives to get this bogus research published: one, he had an investment in a measles vaccine that could not compete against a combination MMR vaccine (since parents would rather have their children receive one shot than three); he had to "prove" that the MMR combo vaccine is dangerous. The other incentive is that he was in cahoots with a lawyer--if they could "prove" that the MMR vaccine causes autism, they were in a position to file millions of dollars' worth of lawsuits in the name of parents of autistic children and become fabulously rich.
Fortunately, people who are a little more knowledgeable than the peer-reviewers who did not vet this "report" properly before it was published took a hard look at it. They tried to replicate/expand on the findings, but (of course) failed to do so, since the report was bogus to begin with. Unfortunately, a lot of money was wasted on research designed to follow-through on this report, money that would have been better spent trying to understand the genetic basis of autism. That understanding is being developed now, thank goodness, but was probably delayed by that bogus "doctor" and his greed. The other unfortunate aspect is that this report, despite being flawed and fictional, gave new fuel to the anti-vax movement which continues to use it to try to scare parents out of giving life-saving vaccines to their children.
Make no mistake: the anti-vax movement is a liberal movement, invented by those with the same anti-humanity sentiments as those who push abortion and the kind of radical environmentalism that would prevent all development. They know that millions of children die of vaccine-preventable diseases every year, and want to bring those death tolls back to the US and other developed countries, where we have used vaccines to save countless millions of lives.
“There is not, and never has been any evidence that the genetic disorder known as “autism” is in any way linked to vaccines.”
It has never been subject to independent investigation, but there is plenty of evidence of temporal association between vaccination and autism/Asperger’s. We parents know.
“highly regarded journal such as The Lancet”
LOL!
“Make no mistake: the anti-vax movement is a liberal movement, invented by those with the same anti-humanity sentiments as those who push abortion and the kind of radical environmentalism that would prevent all development. “
Absolute BS. Folks who question vaccines are from across the political spectrum. Homeschoolers, Christian schoolers and the Amish are part of the “liberal movement”? LOL. The best correlation with unquestioned acceptance of vaccines is that folks with the lowest education levels are the least likely to question vaccines. Folks with a college education are more likely to question. Moreover, the biggest proponents of forced vaccination are DEMOCRATS!
I remember some time ago, in another vaccine thread, that you told us that there was no aborted fetal tissue in vaccines. When called out on that (including a graphic of the vaccine insert which showed the fetal tissue) you disappeared from the conversation.
Do you derive an income from Pharma?
Do you support the elimination of conscience exemptions for vaccination?