Comments on: Deconstructing the Vaccine-Autism Scare

By: Barb Gregory

Barb Gregory — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:01:48 +0000

Even if you are currently pro-vaccine you might want to rethink your stand. Vaccines have secret ingredients that are protected by trade law. Medicine is not food and does NOT have to list things like “may contain milk, peanut, egg, beef, soy, almond, walnut, etc. protein”.

You might see an adjuvant listed or not. Food oils are usually one of the many ingredients in vaccine adjuvants. The oils can be mixed. Trace amounts of the food protein will remain in the vaccine. Not every vaccine will contain the food protein so not every child will get the shot that is contaminated.

But the statistics on food allergies coincides perfectly with the immunization schedules.

Doctors should KNOW what they are injecting into people. How would you like to be the patient with a fatal peanut or soy allergy getting the vaccine with the peanut or soy oil in it?

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By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:26:58 +0000

I want to make my point vey clear. Vaccinations did not make my son who he is. He was born with it. He showed signs of hypersensitivity to visual stimuli as early as 4 mos. old. Of course, at that time noone knew what it was and dismissed it, but now I see the same patterns of behavior and know…he’s always been autistic. So, quit wasting everyone’s time and money arguing a moot point and get on with designing better care ideas for autistic individuals throughout their life span. And make them affordable. Insurable. Study what we know it is instead of postulating about what is isn’t.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:12:07 +0000

My child exhibited signs of autism before he received his vaccinations. More importantly than what causes it is what to do to help the kids once we discover they have it. While I’m all for helping others and would hate to see one more family go through this, it seems that all the advances are for the little ones and now that my son is 10, it’s too late for him. So, arguing about something I know NOT to be true doesn’t help us.

By: HCN

HCN — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:13:33 +0000

For Eleanor:
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/160/3/302

Also read “Deaf Like Me” by the Spradley brothers (something to do with a rubella epidemic)

By: Phil Schwarz

Phil Schwarz — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:23:57 +0000

@Eleanor: When I was 8 years old, back in 1964 before the availability of the mumps vaccine, I contracted mumps, and then encephalitis as a complication of the mumps. It killed the auditory and vestibular nerves on my left side. I am stone deaf in my left ear and rely on vision to compensate for the lack of vestibular function. I think it is a very good thing that there is now a mumps vaccine.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:30:37 +0000

“I know, I know–anecdotal data points of 2, but if we’re going to start adding strokes, dementia and Alzheimer’s to the discussion…”

I haven’t had a vaccine in years and I feel fine also. Re-read the post. I was eliminating these from the discussion concerning ASD “symptoms”.

If want to add more to the administrative increase in ASD diagnosis, please add strokes, dementia and Alzheimer’s patients as potential new ASD individuals.

By: Regan

Regan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:29:50 +0000

have yet to hear of anyone who as an adult develops “symptoms of autism” after receiving a vaccine.

It is easy to walk through an “assisted living facility” or “nursing home” and find many “symptoms of autism”. Stroke, dementia, Alzheimer’s doesn’t always explain away all of the “symptoms”.

Well, I got the Hep A and the DTaP last week and as far as I can tell–feel fine. Eleanor got her HepA booster and MCV4 a month ago–ditto.
I know, I know–anecdotal data points of 2, but if we’re going to start adding strokes, dementia and Alzheimer’s to the discussion…

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:15:17 +0000

“But still, these groups are scattered and not uniform”

No human population is uniformly scattered. Each sub population can be assumed to have a unique distribution, making the total unvaccinated population distributed uniformly.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:51:56 +0000

But still, these groups are scattered and not uniform—and where’s the studies and citations about rates of vaccination in the elderly. Also, with autism, aren’t we talking about vaccination rates in children—-have yet to hear of anyone who as an adult develops “symptoms of autism” after receiving a vaccine. Well, I haven’t heard of anyone.