Maybe Not Parasites But Still There’s No Link…….
July 17, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
Amanda Peet says a sorta sorry. While writing “”I believe in my heart that my use of the word ‘parasites’ was mean and divisive’” in a letter on the Cookie magazine website, she also says:
“[T]here is no association between autism and vaccines. How many more studies do we need to conduct on vaccines, before we start re-channeling our efforts and money towards research on autism?”
Of course, just saying “[t]here is no association between autism and vaccines” is enough to draw a lot of ire, depending on who you talk to.
But, she did say:
“I believe in my heart that my use of the word “parasites” was mean and divisive; I completely understand why it offended some parents, and in particular, parents of children with autism who feel that vaccines caused their illness. For this I am truly sorry.”
That’s an apology. She’s holding the line on her beliefs, but apologizing for the way she delivered the message.
I don’t expect certain people to love her now, but it would be nice if they recognized the apology.
That was very nice of ms Peet to do!
I would have been tempted to rephrase as ‘junior partners in a symbiotic relationship’, but even that has an air about it. lol
Now I wonder if ms BS herself (the Green Vaccine dragon lady?) would offer any form of apology for hollering on TV at those professionals in the medicine field? I truly think she won’t.
“[T]here is no association between autism and vaccines. How many more studies do we need to conduct on vaccines, before we start re-channeling our efforts and money towards research on autism?”
I disagree with this prompt in many levels, in how is worded and in the conclussions and the final conclussion.
I absolutely agree with Ms. Peet on this: “[T]here is no association between autism and vaccines. How many more studies do we need to conduct on vaccines, before we start re-channeling our efforts and money towards research on autism?”
It’s idiotic to spend another penny of looking for a way for vaccines to cause autism. We already have other fruitful areas to look at. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Vaccines save lives of autistic children. If you want autistic and non-autistic children to die, then I guess it would be good to be against vaccines and to keep harping on asking for more research on the now dead and beaten to a pulp horse.
As for the word “parasite,” it was fighting word, but maybe that’s good, she got a lot more coverage for her message by putting that scandalous word in with her life saving message. But the fact remais that the people who don’t vaccinate without good cause are parasites on the society around them that does vaccinate. That’s a fact. You won’t see JB Handley taking his unvaccinated kids to a developing country any time soon. Though maybe he plans on throwing a polio party for his kids an their friends in some slum in India, though I could be wrong about that. They could have a child who is sick with polio wash his soiled hands in their party punch bowl. That way all could get “natural immunity” to polio and just skip those awful non-green vaccines.
I saw a response in a link on the same screen from Katie Wright stating “I would hazard that 75% of parents believe that too many vaccines, too soon, triggered their child’s autism. ” Not sure where she gets this figure from?
Nobody I know.
Perhaps she got it from the faux-epi dept at AutismSpeaks where they just make-up stats to fit their [deplorable] marketing agendas.
At least one source for such a reference is from whale.to, and if that’s the source, I invoke Scopie’s Law.
I would hazard there’s some whales of tales, and of percentages, at whale.to—-here’s Kathleen Seidel recently:
http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/163/
Hellooo, she’s an Actress. @@