Posted on 03/27/2016 9:18:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“My intent in screening this film was to provide an opportunity for conversation"
Robert De Niro on Saturday pulled a controversial documentary from his Tribeca Film Festival after facing backlash about the movie’s controversial and widely-debunked anti-vaccination message.
The actor, who has a child with autism, said in a statement that he had “concerns” with Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe after consulting with experts in the science field about the movie’s focus on the debunked link between vaccines and autism. It’s a reversal from his original stance amid mounting criticism that the film would be important in the ongoing conversation about the surrounding causes of autism.
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Another profile in courage bites the dust.
Anything that upsets the PC Snowflakes must be censored! How dare he?
Next thing you know, he will question the wise Nobel Prize winner, Al Gore and his Anthropogenic Global Warming religion.
My wife fervently believes there is a link.
It is hard to know given the state of peer reviewed, crony-funded science these days.
Thank goodness. Anti-vax pseudoscience hocus spreads well enough on its own without being promoted at film festivals.
Other than the hysterical repeating of anti-vax lies, is there an anti-vaxxer in existence who can propose a rational, scientifically accurate, testable biological mechanism by which vaccines could cause autism?
I’m sorry, but there is no link. Jenny McCarthy is something to drool at in Playboy Magazine. She is not someone we should go to for scientific advise
Good thing. Anti-vaxxer superstition is the most harmful fad of the past 50 years. DeNiro has no obligation to foster a dangerous superstition.
The anti-vaccinators should find out what polio is like. Polio was awful before the vaccine came. Especially hard on children.
Good for him. The film was produced by a quack and serves only to promote long debunked medical pseudoscience.
“amid mounting criticism that the film would be important in the ongoing conversation”
This gets at a problem with liberalism. Instead of saying what one thinks, or just presenting the evidence, or doing what seems right, liberals jump to the presumed (but highly uncertain and usually mistaken) consequences of their actions.
The vaccination/autism link might be real, but that link could be due to a vitamin D3 deficiency. Dr. John Cannell first proposed this in a paper back in 2005, and in a peer-reviewed paper in 2007, and I suspect he’s on target.
Recently, Dr. Cannell summarized recent research that has been done on the autism/vit. D deficiency link in a paper: http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Vitamin-D-and-autism-update-2016.pdf?mc_cid=981de1a538&mc_eid=8079f9b38b
Here is an interesting comment from the paper which, by the way, is well-referenced throughout:
“In the January 2016 issue of Pediatrics, Jia and colleagues presented a case report of a 32-month-old autistic child whose core symptoms of autism dramatically responded in two months to high doses of vitamin D (150,000 IU (3.75 mg) monthly given intramuscularly together with 400 IU/day (10 mcg) orally). ref. #14”
Anyone concerned about autism, or about the effect of vaccination on autism (and of fear of autism upon vaccination rates as well), should familiarize themselves with Dr. Cannell’s work, in my opinion.
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http://www.vaccinationnews.org/DailyNews/May2002/MechEncephDamVax.htm I have studied this for years since my sons disorder in 2000 which he later died from. The proteins and mechanisms in the liver related to long chain fatty acids breakdown are directly connected with development of early myelin sheath development and very important in the formative years. Under 2 years old it’s dangerous to stress out this system. Many of these type of disorders are found to be related to demyelinization or lack of it. This imho is directly connected with causing mitochondrial disfunctions. http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/07/solving-the-autism-puzzle-the-fatty-acid-question-and-big-fat-neurons.html
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/2/e460 some more on this topic.
Friend of mine was threatened with child services for asking to spread out the big dose visits.
>>”...is there an anti-vaxxer in existence who can propose a rational, scientifically accurate, testable biological mechanism by which vaccines could cause autism?”<<
Actually, Dr. Cannell, who is not an “anti-vaxxer” by any means, has proposed a rational, testable, link between vaccinations and autism which depends upon the child being deficient in vitamin D plus being genetically predisposed to autism. (The link hasn’t been tested, but it is testable, although such a test would conceivably be unethical if it involved leaving a placebo group with a severe vitamin D3 deficiency.)
His point is that the genes predispose a child to autism and that the condition itself is triggered by a combination of a weakened immune system caused by the D3 deficiency followed by the insult of a heavy dose of vaccinations. Personally, I think he’s onto something, and present research (as discussed in a post further up in this thread) is supportive of his thinking, which he has held since 2007 when I first encountered his ideas on autism. I found his theory very interesting at the time because it explained several of the various explanations for the observed increase in autism rates
Polio is bad. So is brain inflammation that causes brain damage is not good either.
Brain damage is a stated side effect of some vaccines; you are warned on the package.
My son was injured, but that does not make me “anti-vaxx”. I also cannot get vaccines or flu shots.
The number of vaccines should be discussed, more is not necessarily better.
The fact that it cannot be questioned means we have moved from science to dogma.
It is very complex and it needs additional research. Bernadine Healy, former head of CDC, made such a statement years ago.
Sharyl Attkinson did some reporting on this.
https://sharylattkisson.com/?s=vaccines&submit.x=0&submit.y=4
https://sharylattkisson.com/cdc-possibility-that-vaccines-rarely-trigger-autism/
A CDC senior epidemiologist stepped forward last week to say that he and his CDC colleagues omitted data that linked MMR vaccine to autism in a 2004 study. The scientist, William Thompson, said “I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information.”
[This article was first published on Sept. 2, 2014]
Interesting and timely comment.
I grew up in the 1950s.
Yesterday, I was at my local upscale mall and saw a Middle Eastern family pushing a child in a wheelchair.
I literally can't recall the last time I saw a child in a wheelchair in America.
In the 1950s, you saw a kid in a wheelchair or with leg braces or crutches almost every week.
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