Autism’s False Prophets - a new book
January 13, 2009
Below I’ve included a link to an article about this new book. I have not read the book. I will not read the book. But, I have to comment on this issue - to vaccinate or not.
First of all, why is there no middle ground? Yes, people need vaccines to prevent disease. Yes, “some” of these people could be adversely affected by the vaccines. Why can’t we agree on this? Why can’t we agree that there is no “one size fits all”? I just don’t get it. In fact, even Jenny McCarthy says this is true. And she’s the one who seems to be bearing the brunt of this backlash. She doesn’t advocate that children should not be vaccinated. She advocates that we need to focus our research on finding out why and who will be adversely affected by which vaccines. We could some day have a test for every baby to see if their body can handle the vaccines BEFORE they are given the vaccine. She advocates that there is a slower vaccine schedule that could be given to kids instead of all the vaccines they pileup at once, perhaps some kids bodies cannot handle the amount of vaccines they are given at once. She advocates for more research in this area. She advocates for us as a society and medical community to just agree that perhaps we should be looking into this. With every research study you always start out with a hypothesis, don’t you? Why is it so evil to the medical community that you could start out a research study with the hypothesis that some kids could be adversely affected to vaccines? Prove the autism mom’s wrong if nothing else.
Instead, there is all this fighting. Doctors/medical professionals and the autism community acting like little kids fighting over their favorite toy. It is disgusting. It is a waste of time. And it is shameful.
I do not believe my son’s aspergers had anything to do with vaccines. He was born with a brain that works a little differently than neurotypical people. I also do not think there is ANYTHING wrong with his brain. In fact, I think we as a society need to place a high value on these kids with these brains. They have something to offer the world that NT people cannot. It is my mission to get the world to realize this.
But regardless if my son was affected by vaccines or not, does not mean that other kids aren’t. If I worked in the area of vaccine research, I would take on this research study. Unfortunately, I have a very NT brain and it does not have the capacity to do this kind of work - I was not one of the lucky ones!
Autism book takes aim at vaccine foes
A new book defending vaccines, written by a doctor infuriated at the claim that they cause autism, is galvanizing a backlash against the anti-vaccine movement in the United States.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/395802_vaccine13.html
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