Comments on: Science: Autism/vaccine ‘link’ debunked

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:44:57 +0000

Barb: ‘It doesn’t prove there is no link between vaccinations and autism.”

Can you prove there’s no link between rising hemlines and the economy? Actually, I think there are some studies have a greater mathematical basis.

By: barb

barb — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:31:57 +0000

One small study was faked. That proves nothing. It doesn’t prove there is no link between vaccinations and autism. It only proves that a couple of researchers faked their study. A really small study of only 8 children couldn’t prove that vaccines caused all autism anyhow.

But how can vaccines be properly studied when we don’t even know all of the ingredients? Vaccines fall under trade secret protection and all of the ingredients (culture medium and adjuvant) do not have to appear on the package insert?

By: RWR

RWR — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:55:47 +0000

What I want to know is why the numerous studies implicating father’s age at birth are not publicised widely…this is actually a preventable contributor and yet it seems to be stifled in the media — why?

By: Knight in Dragonland

Knight in Dragonland — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:42:04 +0000

Only multi-use vials of the influenza vaccine still contain thimerosal, the mercury containing preservative that people have so flipped out about. Preservative-free versions of the flu vaccine are available in single-use syringes.

Nonetheless, there have now been FOUR major studies that have looked for a link between thimerosal and autism and found NOTHING.

The MMR-autism link was spurious to begin with. Wakefield’s study of 12 children was wildly extrapolated to make broad conclusions about the safety of an almost 40 year old vaccine with MILLIONS of safely administered doses. Now it turns out that Wakefield’s data was completely fraudulent.

This is a DEAD issue. Too much time, money & effort has been WASTED that could have been used pursuing more meaningful avenues of research regarding the causes & treatment of autism.

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:06:05 +0000

From Wikipedia:

Although parents may first become aware of autistic symptoms in their child around the time of a routine vaccination (and parental concern about vaccines has led to a decreasing uptake of childhood immunizations and an increasing likelihood of measles outbreaks), the overwhelming majority of scientific studies show no causal association between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism, and there is no convincing scientific evidence showing that the vaccine preservative thiomersal helps cause autism.

And they NO LONGER USE ANY SUBSTANCE CONTAINING MERCURY. Sorry. It’s true. They’ve done study after study. Nothing, Nada.

All of the “evidence” about autism and vaccines is anecdotal, and it is driven by hysteria. Lack of vaccinations kills. It kills babies and children.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:45:23 +0000

Wasn't the reason they were saying that there is a link between autism and vaccines was because of the mercury in vaccines? I just found out that the government, the IATP, did a study on 1/26/09 that showed that there is mercury in high fructose corn syrup due to the processing that goes on with the corn. They need to do studies on HFCS and autism to see what those results are. HFCS Mercury Study

By: Super J

Super J — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:44:32 +0000

No doubt a commenter will accuse this newspaper of being in the pocket of Big Pharma.

Doesn’t seem like The Autism Industry really needs the boogeyman of “Big Pharma” anymore. I think it served its purpose when the Autism brandname was still in its formative stages, but now that Autism has become such big business, they really don’t need a villain anymore.