Comments on: MMR Vaccine Does Not Cause Autism (not that you didn’t know that already)

By: Autism Vox 2008 in Review: August-December

Autism Vox 2008 in Review: August-December — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:02:17 +0000

[...] study showed that the MMR vaccine does not cause [...]

By: CD

CD — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:31:41 +0000

What about the role of food, preservatives and all the chemicals added. I live in Europe and would like to know if the rate of autism here has increased as drastically in the US? I’ve asked several doctors here in the Czech Republic about it and they said there hasn’t been an increase here. Is that a fact do you know? Perhaps Europeans eat healthier diets. Less processed foods. When I go into a grocery store in America I see people filling their carts with ready made meals that are full of chemicals. If they are feeding this to their children could this be why?

By: Autism “Debates”

Autism “Debates” — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:31:12 +0000

[...] whether or not vaccines or something in vaccines can be linked to autism. But while more and more scientific studies refute a link, this particular topic is still regularly portrayed as a “debate” [...]

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MMR and autism: new study | Autism Library — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:55:22 +0000

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By: There’s a Poem At the End of This

There’s a Poem At the End of This — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:45:14 +0000

[...] Here’s what readers have been saying in a very busy week in which we learned, or learned again, that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism: [...]

By: Autism Blog - Experts comment on Hornig et al.’s MMR paper | Left Brain/Right Brain

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:03:32 +0000

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By: lola

lola — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:41:17 +0000

For me, this study only highlights what weak science supports either side of the autism vaccine issue. One study with 33 subjects, whose feces were examined for MMR one time+ case closed? Only in the movies.
This study, like the study it is attempting to refute are both flawed and only prove that small studies like this do nothing but create useless chatter.
The study out in Jama in February, which showed new information on the blood brain barrier and the immune function, need to receive more of our focus and continued study. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/299/6/619

In a perfect world, those interested in these studies would take some time to personally do a little due diligence. How big is the study is a good question. Then look at the data. How was it analyzed/ how cleaned up was the data. What kind of data was “kicked out” as noise or unrelated.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:51:06 +0000

Passionless,

I am intrigued by the integrity of both the blood brain barrier and the blood gut barrier. The GFCF diet is based on a lack of integrity of the blood gut barrier. What can happen to the blood gut barrier can also happen to the blood brain barrier.
This is why I was intrigued by reports of measles virus in the gut flora and in the spinal fluid. Neither is possible without a problem with the integrity of the two barriers.
Blood gut and blood brain issues would explain much about autism. Such issues should be treatable as they do not sit behind the blood brain barrier.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:39:01 +0000

Who wasted more time Sullivan, me reading the study or Dr. Mady Hornig in doing a study that wasn’t necessary, as the title of this thread implies?

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:18:32 +0000

The one thing the study tells us is that 25 people were studied.

If that’s all you can take away from this study, well, your time isn’t well spent reading papers like this.

There was enough in this study to convince Rick Rollens that the MMR/Autism connection isn’t valid. That is a tough sell.