14 studies
April 22, 2009
Everyone always asks me how I feel about vaccines and autism - the great debate. I don’t believe it should be a debate. There is definitely a relationship. Whether indirect or direct, there is a relationship.
The big issue back when was thought to be thimerosal. In fact, when my son was getting his vaccinations, we thought if you made sure you were using vaccines without thimerosal (and you would apparently know this by the manufacture date of the vaccine) that you were safe. Then it was the MMR vaccination. That seemed to be the culprit. And then you were supposed to not do that particular vaccination, or get it in separate doses. I don’t believe it’s that simple and neither does the autism community that is really looking at this issue. And, somehow, this message doesn’t seem to be getting out there because everyone keeps focusing on thimerosal and MMR. The issue is the amount of vaccinations given in such high doses at such young ages.
This website www.14studies.com is excellent. They do a great job outlining the great debate. Here is an excerpt that summarizes:
In April 2009, Generation Rescue issued a fascinating study, Vaccines and Autism around the World, with a stunning observation: “The United States has the highest number of mandated vaccines for children under 5 in the world (36, double the Western world average of 18), the highest autism rate in the world (1 in 150 children, 10 times or more the rate of some other Western countries), but only places 34th in the world for its children under 5 mortality rate. What’s going on?”
Amanda Peet - shame on you. One day you will regret the decision to become the spokesperson for big pharma on this issue. 1 in 150 children in the U.S. This is an epidemic. Wake up people!!! Stop fighting and start studying. You don’t have to be against vaccines to be concerned that something is wrong with our vaccination system. And you don’t have to rid the world of vaccinations to make this right.
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