Follow up to your earlier postings “Professors offer more than $10,000 for proof that Bachmann’s story about HPV is true”
Liberals NEVER pay up! They just claim that the contest was unfair.
When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.
http://vaers.hhs.gov/data/index
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Randall Hoven should resign from the American Thinker, because he clearly wasn't thinking when he wrote that article.
None of the cases cited in this article are Mental Retardation. They could be considered Brain Damage which is a far different thing. Mental retardation is a development problem, not a degenerative issue. Bachmann either had no idea what Mental Retardation was defined as in a clinical sense or she was going way over board. Both cases do not look good for her.
correlation does not equal causation. Congratulations for flunking Basic Science 101
Now can we get a real medical expert to defend Michele?
Where is the medical report of her daughter's medical condition?
Brain damage doesn't equal mental retardation - neither case file shows any vaccination did cause or can cause mental retardation.
The unanswered question, to me, is whether or not Bachmann made an effort to verify the woman’s story before going public with it. It sounds for all the world as though she just accepted the story as gospel and rolled it out the next day. Such carelessness, if that was the case, could be used to damage a candidate’s credibility by setting her up with a phony claim.
Was the anecdote not that someone had come up to her after the debate and told her the story about her daughter becoming “mentally retarded” after receiving the vaccine?
This does nothing to corroborate that particular story.
(Though it wouldn’t surprise me if a possible side effect was some sort of brain damage.)
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According to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the Gardasil vaccine causes some 12 serious adverse (life threatening) events per 100,000 vaccinated patients. (92% adverse reactions were considered to be non-serious, and 8% were considered serious, including permanent institutionalization, severe brain damage and death.)
The annual death rate for cervical cancer is 2 per 100,000 for white women, and 4 per 100,000 for black women, between the ages of 35-55. Mitigated by some 30% of cases not attributable to either strain of HPV.
Since mandatory vaccination with Gardasil would happen to a different group of girls annually, Gardasil is a greater threat for severe injury and death than is cervical cancer.
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The thing that surprised me the most was this...I thought the term “mental retardation” was not used anymore?
Special Olympics,Special needs, something challenged etc are better terms I thought.
To say I am the mother of a mentally retarded child, or that my child acquired mental retardation...are not terms that are proper to use anymore I thought? So that was suspicious sounding to me.