Comments on: Go, Mouse

By: Vaccines in the Media: Emotion Trumping Reason?

Vaccines in the Media: Emotion Trumping Reason? — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:58:51 +0000

[...] The medical establishment, Dr. Boyce suggests, was less savvy and generally “fragemented” about getting [its] message out to the media and was “always in the position of reacting to the latest initiative from the Wakefield campaign.” Researchers, scientists, and doctors have often tended to state, in reasoned and respectful language and without rhetoric, that the vast majority of the scientific evidence disputes a link between autism and vaccines and something in vaccines. Conversely, anti-vaccine advocacy groups such as JABS and Allergy Induced Autism (and, in the US, Safe Minds and Generation Rescue) have made great efforts (such as Generation Rescue’s full-page ads in major newspapers) to communicate a simple and focused message stating that “mercury causes autism” and asking the same rhetorical question again and again “how can we inject a known neurotoxin into young children?”. Dr. Fitzgerald notes that anti-vaccine groups in the UK have sought celebrity endorsement (Nick Hornby and Juliet Stephenson), just as, in the US, autism groups such as TACA and the NAA, have gotten behind Jenny McCarthy and Deirdre Imus. [...]

By: A New Jersey Mother Responds to Katie Wright

A New Jersey Mother Responds to Katie Wright — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:41:12 +0000

[...] the most common genetic cause of autism).Wright extends sympathy to New Jersey parents and praises Deirdre Imus for her wonderful essay in the Huffington Post about the New Jersey vaccine mandate. I feel [...]

By: Getting to the Bottom: The Imus Center and the Northvale autism “cluster”

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:14:37 +0000

[...] few days ago I noted that the word imus—as in shock-talk host Don Imus and his wife, Deirdre Imus (who has [...]

By: Schwartz

Schwartz — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:31:46 +0000

No philosophical grounds in NJ at all.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:16:28 +0000

Just in time for last-minute holiday gifts…….

By: Susan Etlinger

Susan Etlinger — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:30:55 +0000

…which sounds like a new Apple product, actually.

By: Susan Etlinger

Susan Etlinger — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:27:26 +0000

Wow Kristina. I can always count on you for cogent arguments and a little linguistic fun. Now I’ll always have to think of her as Imouse.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:45:48 +0000

NJ’s rules for a religious exemption are here.

Glad you got a chuckle from the Latin…

By: Schwartz

Schwartz — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:57:40 +0000

Kristina,

Far more biting than usual. I’m surprised.

I do not support mandatory vaccination, and I find it especially offensive when the mandated vaccines do not threaten society as a whole but even worse when it doesn’t have proven efficacy (the flu vaccine in particular).

It is not nearly as offensive if the state has exemptions based on philosophical grounds. Do you know what is covered in New Jersey’s religious exemption, as some states include philosophical reasons under religious exemptions?

I got a chuckle from your latin piece.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:18:45 +0000

Charlie did not get his vaccines at 5 years and then got them at 8 and it was anti-climactic experience to say the least.

A friend sent me that Onion piece when it came out and I laughed myself off my chair……….

I, mus!

Ite, mures!