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“I can spot an autistic child anywhere in a minute.”
How often have you heard someone say this; how often you thought it yourself?
In contrast, a quote from Jane Seward, deputy director of the division of viral diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in reference to the reported 131 cases of measles […]
On the one hand, you have to give the “anti-vaccine/pro-vaccine-safety” folks some credit for, it seems, disseminating their belief that autism can be linked to vaccines or something in vaccines. As noted in numerous news sources last week, it seems that many parents are opting out of vaccinating their children. The result has been hardly […]
Pathophilia succinctly describes the CDC’s MMWR report and takes a closer look at the 131 cases of measles reported from January-July of this year. Writes Pathophilia:
The overwhelming majority of these cases were imported* (13%) or linked to imported disease (76%). (It is important to note that the number of imported measles cases in the United […]
Measles cases are at their highest level in a decade, and is looming dread of autism at least partially responsible for this?
There is a myth about vaccines and autism out there; the myth arose after a certain British doctor published a certain study linking the MMR vaccine to autism. A number of the authors of […]
Yes, we’ve been on vacation; meanwhile, the usual back and forth about vaccines and autism rages: CBS news say they’ve unearthed “details of a third case of vaccine injury in a child born in 1974″—as Kev’s noted, Kathleen Seidel described this same case five months ago on the Neurodiversity blog, CBS news is catching […]
Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the figure at the center of the controversy over the MMR vaccine and autism, was a “man in a hurry,” according to Professor John Walker-Smith in a hearing before the General Medical Council (GMC). The hearing is about “alleged irregularities in research methods.” Dr. Wakefield was the primary author of the 1998 […]
So having previously rebranded autism as “Environmentally-acquired Neuroimmune Disorder” or “E.N.D.” (that was over a year ago) and then dubbed autism “vaccine aggravated mitochondrial disorder (in February of this year), and then referred to it as “autistic encephalopathy“—all meant to suggest that what autistic children “have” is some disease caused by an environmental trigger […]
Is the media addicted to controversy—as in the notion that the MMR vaccine could be linked to autism—and is this potentially seriously damaging to people’s health? So Peter Wilby asks in today’s Guardian:
Nearly all journalists aspire to emulate two stories: the Watergate scandal, which brought down a US president; and the thalidomide scandal, which, […]
In light of this discussion, consider statement from Bad Astronomy (a blog for Discover Magazine):
…….antivaxxers are potentially the Number One health hazard in America
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Or maybe Bad Astronomy’s statement could just be punctuated with a plain old, definitive, period.
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At last, some sensible words about vaccines, courtesy of actress Amanda Peet on yesterday’s Good Morning America:
“It seems that the media is often giving celebrities and actors more authority on this issue than they are giving the experts. I know it’s a paradox, but that’s part of why I wanted to become a spokesperson, to […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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