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Old 27th May 2011, 08:46 AM   #241
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Iron lungs were a hoot.

Well, iron lung sound a lot like Iron Man, so it's gotta be cool, right?
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Funny how Clayton abandoned this thread.
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I might've said this before. But if I have, it bears repeating.

Know what I hate about this particular conspiracy theory? It's perhaps the only conspiracy theory that can actually kill people.

I usually spend my forum time arguing against 9/11 Truthers. They're offensive, disrespectful, loudmouthed, stupid, annoying, cultlike oafs who destroy their own lives to satisfy their needs for attention. But they aren't dangerous in the life-or-death sense of the word. The worst I've seen them to is convince gullible people to abandon friends and families so they can run off and do Twoof crap. Which is bad, sure, but they still have their lives. JFK and moon hoax CTs are even less harmful.

But these vaccine CT's.

No.

These vaccine CT's...they are what make me wish there weren't laws against nonlethal assault & battery. They are what make me question the otherwise unquestionable First Amendment. These cancerous tumors on society suck gullible people into their fold, using lies, weasel-words, and Twoofisms...they suck people in, and then they kill them and their children.

I don't know what kind of body count the Vaccines-Cause-Autism CT has racked up over the years, but I have a feeling it's higher than the death toll of every other conspiracy theory combined. These people make me sick. Whenever I hear the phrase "faith in humanity" I declare that I am an atheist. What a bunch of ****.
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Old 28th May 2011, 10:05 AM   #244
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Originally Posted by 1337m4n View Post
I might've said this before. But if I have, it bears repeating.

Know what I hate about this particular conspiracy theory? It's perhaps the only conspiracy theory that can actually kill people.

I usually spend my forum time arguing against 9/11 Truthers. They're offensive, disrespectful, loudmouthed, stupid, annoying, cultlike oafs who destroy their own lives to satisfy their needs for attention. But they aren't dangerous in the life-or-death sense of the word. The worst I've seen them to is convince gullible people to abandon friends and families so they can run off and do Twoof crap. Which is bad, sure, but they still have their lives. JFK and moon hoax CTs are even less harmful.

But these vaccine CT's.

No.

These vaccine CT's...they are what make me wish there weren't laws against nonlethal assault & battery. They are what make me question the otherwise unquestionable First Amendment. These cancerous tumors on society suck gullible people into their fold, using lies, weasel-words, and Twoofisms...they suck people in, and then they kill them and their children.

I don't know what kind of body count the Vaccines-Cause-Autism CT has racked up over the years, but I have a feeling it's higher than the death toll of every other conspiracy theory combined. These people make me sick. Whenever I hear the phrase "faith in humanity" I declare that I am an atheist. What a bunch of ****.
Maybe you should wake up and view the tip of the iceberg.

Or do you think all of these incidents are imagined?

Seizures, convulsions & vaccines

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/seizures.html

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[2009 Sept] Two thousand schoolgirls suffer suspected ill-effects from cervical cancer vaccine Within four days of the third injection in March of this year, Stacey suffered an epileptic seizure, followed by 17 more in the following week. She has now been diagnosed with a brain injury, caused by inflammation of the brain, and is being treated in an NHS rehabilitation unit in Birmingham, which helps her with basic tasks like making a sandwich. Seizures are minimised by five types of medication, but her memory is badly damaged. The family has been given no explanation for how the damage occurred. Mrs Jones, 44, said: "She was such a lovely, happy go-lucky girl, now she is just a shell. "When we go to see her, she can't remember what she has just eaten for tea. The impact on her and all of us has been absolutely devastating. I feel she has been used as a guinea pig."

I have a friend who can't get a flu shot or a tetanus shot because of the reaction. She's 40. What happens to a toddler or younger baby when he or she gets a REACTION?
What happens when a baby has an unobserved seizure?

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[1998] Weibel et al Acute Encephalopathy Followed by Permanent Brain Injury or Death Associated With Further Attenuated Measles Vaccines: A Review of Claims Submitted to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program A total of 48 children, ages 10 to 49 months, met the inclusion criteria after receiving measles vaccine, alone or in combination. Eight children died, and the remainder had mental regression and retardation, chronic seizures, motor and sensory deficits, and movement disorders.

When a vaccine or series of vaccines are given and a child develops a seizure minutes later or even several days later, there is no question that the vaccine triggered the seizure. Multiple seizures indicate a severely inflamed brain and emergency procedures need to be implemented. In many cases, the seizures can be silent, that is, they have other neurological or behavioral expressions, such as irritability or periods of confusion, rather than an obvious convulsion. (Blaylock, RL. JAN A 2003;6:10-22.) Treatment means more than just prescribing anti-seizure medications, since this only masks the true process going on in the child's brain, that is, severe brain inflammation and excitotoxicity. Vaccine Safety Manual by Neil Z. Miller.
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Old 28th May 2011, 10:29 AM   #245
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Originally Posted by 1337m4n View Post
I might've said this before. But if I have, it bears repeating.

Know what I hate about this particular conspiracy theory? It's perhaps the only conspiracy theory that can actually kill people.

I usually spend my forum time arguing against 9/11 Truthers. They're offensive, disrespectful, loudmouthed, stupid, annoying, cultlike oafs who destroy their own lives to satisfy their needs for attention. But they aren't dangerous in the life-or-death sense of the word. The worst I've seen them to is convince gullible people to abandon friends and families so they can run off and do Twoof crap. Which is bad, sure, but they still have their lives. JFK and moon hoax CTs are even less harmful.

But these vaccine CT's.

No.

These vaccine CT's...they are what make me wish there weren't laws against nonlethal assault & battery. They are what make me question the otherwise unquestionable First Amendment. These cancerous tumors on society suck gullible people into their fold, using lies, weasel-words, and Twoofisms...they suck people in, and then they kill them and their children.

I don't know what kind of body count the Vaccines-Cause-Autism CT has racked up over the years, but I have a feeling it's higher than the death toll of every other conspiracy theory combined. These people make me sick. Whenever I hear the phrase "faith in humanity" I declare that I am an atheist. What a bunch of ****.
Oh man, I so hear you. Think of it: what's just about the worst thing in the whole world you can call someone, worse than murderer, rapist, Hitler-lover, or anything else? Baby killer, right? And yet, here we are, talking about people who are fully prepared to put millions of babies' lives at risk. And for what, really? To satisfy their twisted, perverse need to feel superior, to tell themselves they know something the rest of us don't, by talking smugly and confidently about a subject they don't even being to remotely understand.

When I think of someone like Jenny McCarthy, and how by the cold light of logic, reason, and mathematics the world would quite literally be better off if she were dead (or, as a less violent alternative, would at least just shut her impossibly stupid mouth), it may make me rather queasy and uncomfortable to harbor such thoughts. But I cannot argue with the underlying truth of the situation.

Some people want to be stupid. OK I get it. So long as the only victims of their willful stupidity are themselves, I say go for it, knock yourself out, whatever gets you through the day and all that. But when your stupidity endangers lives -- especially those of babies and children who have no choice in the matter -- well, all I can say is that I cannot fathom how such a person can live with themselves.
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Oh man, I so hear you. Think of it: what's just about the worst thing in the whole world you can call someone, worse than murderer, rapist, Hitler-lover, or anything else? Baby killer, right? And yet, here we are, talking about people who are fully prepared to put millions of babies' lives at risk. And for what, really? To satisfy their twisted, perverse need to feel superior, to tell themselves they know something the rest of us don't, by talking smugly and confidently about a subject they don't even being to remotely understand.

When I think of someone like Jenny McCarthy, and how by the cold light of logic, reason, and mathematics the world would quite literally be better off if she were dead (or, as a less violent alternative, would at least just shut her impossibly stupid mouth), it may make me rather queasy and uncomfortable to harbor such thoughts. But I cannot argue with the underlying truth of the situation.

Some people want to be stupid. OK I get it. So long as the only victims of their willful stupidity are themselves, I say go for it, knock yourself out, whatever gets you through the day and all that. But when your stupidity endangers lives -- especially those of babies and children who have no choice in the matter -- well, all I can say is that I cannot fathom how such a person can live with themselves.
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/seizures.html

In case you missed it the people discussed are victims.


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I have a friend who can't get a flu shot or a tetanus shot because of the reaction. She's 40. What happens to a toddler or younger baby when he or she gets a REACTION?
What happens when a baby has an unobserved seizure?
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Originally Posted by Clayton Moore View Post
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/seizures.html

In case you missed it the people discussed are victims.
I'm not sure why you think what you've posted is any sort of reply. It appears to consist primarily of links to unverified anecdotes in which claims are made that various forms of health problems followed the administration of a vaccination -- with little proof that the former caused the latter. None of it provides even a single atom of proof that vaccines cause autism, which after all is the topic of this thread.

I don't know what your motivation is for doing something like this -- indeed, as I stated in my previous post, I can't even understand why anyone would do this. All I can say is that to me, this behavior is indistinguishable from someone who has no interest in determining or discussing the truth; they simply want to tell themselves they're winning an argument. The problem is, such activity is essentially the same as playing a game in which no one else is participating -- and still losing very badly.
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And still he ignores Wakefield's vaccine patent in favour of unverified anecdotes and lies...........
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And still he ignores Wakefield's vaccine patent in favour of unverified anecdotes and lies...........
I think it's a exercise in simply wanting to believe something, and then contriving a reason for doing so. Think of it: The original presumed connection between autism and vaccines was based on the whole themiserol thing, and the similarities between the symptoms of mercury poisoning and autism. So they phase out themiserol, but instead of going down autism diagnosis rates continue to rise (probably because we're just better at recognizing the symptoms, although some consider the jury still out on that one). But instead of accepting that vaccines never had anything to do with autism, the anti-vaxers now seem to be focusing on some hypothetical process in which vaccines damage the immune system, thus resulting in autism -- as if autism were the result of immunodeficiency, a link for which I've seen zero evidence.

For some people, it seems to come down to this: they know vaccines cause autism, so it doesn't really matter what the data does -- or doesn't -- show. And based on that, they're prepared to put millions of babies at risk. The ignorant and deluded are to be pitied; but those who insist upon remaining willfully so, at the potential expense of innocent young lives, are reprehensible beyond expression.
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Originally Posted by Clayton Moore View Post
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/seizures.html
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I have a friend who can't get a flu shot or a tetanus shot because of the reaction. She's 40. What happens to a toddler or younger baby when he or she gets a REACTION?
What happens when a baby has an unobserved seizure?
In case you missed it the people discussed are victims.
Babies can be born with all sorts of potential reactions to things. Of course we only find out about them when they actually have these reactions. But I suppose we should go the safer course and just keep all babies in a plastic bubble just in case.
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I think it's a exercise in simply wanting to believe something, and then contriving a reason for doing so. Think of it: The original presumed connection between autism and vaccines was based on the whole themiserol thing, and the similarities between the symptoms of mercury poisoning and autism. So they phase out themiserol, but instead of going down autism diagnosis rates continue to rise (probably because we're just better at recognizing the symptoms, although some consider the jury still out on that one). But instead of accepting that vaccines never had anything to do with autism, the anti-vaxers now seem to be focusing on some hypothetical process in which vaccines damage the immune system, thus resulting in autism -- as if autism were the result of immunodeficiency, a link for which I've seen zero evidence.

For some people, it seems to come down to this: they know vaccines cause autism, so it doesn't really matter what the data does -- or doesn't -- show. And based on that, they're prepared to put millions of babies at risk. The ignorant and deluded are to be pitied; but those who insist upon remaining willfully so, at the potential expense of innocent young lives, are reprehensible beyond expression.
So because people were not questioning the vaccine but the themiserol. When the themiserol was eliminated the vaccine gets a pass? Good thinking.

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/seizures.html

Maybe you should take the time to read all of those links.
You think those people have some nefarious agenda?


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In April 2010, an ATAGI - TGA joint working group was established to provide advice to the Chief Medical Officer on adverse events following the 2010 trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine (TIV). In September 2010, this group was reconvened to re-examine the rate of febrile convulsions following administration of the monovalent pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine, Panvax/Panvax Junior (CSL) in young children, and in particular, to address the following questions:

You do realize that reconvened to re-examine the rate of febrile convulsions means that a significant number of events are needed to freaking reconvene anything.




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As at 17 September 2010 the TGA had received a total of 48 unique reports of febrile convulsions in children aged less than 5 years who had received Panvax or Panvax Jnr. Each of these cases (the numerator) were carefully reviewed to ensure that a consistent case definition was applied and that the timeframe and age range of the cases (numerator) used in the analysis were consistent with those used in determining the number of doses administered (the denominator)
I've never witnessed a febrile convulsion and I hope no one here has or will. How many have gone unseen by a parent downstairs while their toddler is "sleeping" 10 or 12 hours a day?


http://www.whale.to/vaccine/feds9.html

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Feds checking post-vaccine seizures in young kids

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Jan 20, 2011

ATLANTA (AP) — Government officials are investigating an apparent increase in fever-related seizures in young children after they got a flu shot.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said there have been 36 confirmed reports of seizures this flu season in children ages 6 months through 2 years. The seizures occurred within one day after they were vaccinated with Fluzone, the only flu shot recommended in the United States for infants and very young children. Ten of the children were hospitalized, but all recovered.
How does anyone know if the potential of a 6 month old baby has been damaged or not?


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In August, a U.S. vaccines advisory panel said doctors should avoid using that vaccine, made by CSL Biotherapies, in children ages 6 months through 8 years.
In the US, the flu season is October through May.

Does this mean that the advisory was ignored?
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ATLANTA (AP) — Government officials are investigating an apparent increase in fever-related seizures in young children after they got a flu shot.
WTF Vaccines causing health problems to young children, serious health problems, is not conspiracy theory, it's reality.

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Originally Posted by Clayton Moore View Post
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/seizures.html

In case you missed it the people discussed are victims.

O. M. G! He actually linked to the whale.to web site to support his case. Multiple times!
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Funny how Clayton abandoned this thread.
He never was really here.
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O. M. G! He actually linked to the whale.to web site to support his case. Multiple times!
It is inevitable when vaccines are the topic. Its the Godwin of the Jenny Mcarthy set.
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I don't know what kind of body count the Vaccines-Cause-Autism CT has racked up over the years, but I have a feeling it's higher than the death toll of every other conspiracy theory combined.
Here's a primer: http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.co...ount/Home.html

At the time of writing, 79 365 cases of preventable illnesses, of which 727 resulted in deaths. This is contrasted with 0 cases of autism found to have been caused by vaccination.
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So because people were not questioning the vaccine but the themiserol. When the themiserol was eliminated the vaccine gets a pass? Good thinking.
Actually, it's quite good thinking, since there's no evidence that vaccines cause autism, and no reason to believe they even can once you've eliminated the thermiserol angle (which, although totally unproven, at least was quasi-plausible). So yes, they get a total pass unless someone can suggest why they shouldn't -- which thus far no one has. Don't forget, it's up to the anti-vax folks to prove the link to autism, not up to everyone else to disprove it.


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Maybe you should take the time to read all of those links.
You think those people have some nefarious agenda?
No, I just think they're woefully ignorant and attach vastly more gravitas to their uninformed opinions than is merited -- which, when one considers that the lives of innocent children are at state, might indeed be accurately described as nefarious after all.


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You do realize that reconvened to re-examine the rate of febrile convulsions means that a significant number of events are needed to freaking reconvene anything.

I've never witnessed a febrile convulsion and I hope no one here has or will. How many have gone unseen by a parent downstairs while their toddler is "sleeping" 10 or 12 hours a day?
Sorry, but I'm really not sure what you're trying to say here. And in any case, the OP is about vaccines causing autism. What does febrile convulsions have to do with that? Are you implying that if there's any side effects at all associated with vaccines, whatever those symptoms must be, then it follows that vaccines cause autism? I certainly hope that's not what you're attempting here, because if so, that would place you squarely in the camp of those who are more interested in trying to "win" an internet argument than discussing the truth of whether or not vaccines cause autism.


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How does anyone know if the potential of a 6 month old baby has been damaged or not?
This goes back to my burden of proof remark earlier. "How does anyone know" doesn't cut it. What you need is "There is proof that." You don't have that, and therefore your argument fails.


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WTF Vaccines causing health problems to young children, serious health problems, is not conspiracy theory, it's reality.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure those parallel vertical poles flying off into the distance are goalposts. Of course vaccines can cause health problems in some young children (a very tiny minority), no reasonable person denies that. Every effective medication can cause side effects in some people. Treatments as massively successful and important as aspirin and penicillin can and have killed people. Should we ban them, along with every other effective medication? Sure, if we want to go back to the time when human life expectancy was around 30 years and the majority of babies failed to survive childhood.

But that's not what this thread's about, it's about whether or not vaccines cause autism. So trying to turn the argument into "but vaccines have some side effects" is a strawman so huge you could hide the Trojan army in it.

This is the point at which it becomes rather difficult to show any respect at all to your argument. The subject of this thread is whether or not vaccines cause autism. If you have evidence that it does, present it. If you don't, admit such, rather than attempting to save a bit of face by shifting the goalposts.
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Here's a primer: http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.co...ount/Home.html

At the time of writing, 79 365 cases of preventable illnesses, of which 727 resulted in deaths. This is contrasted with 0 cases of autism found to have been caused by vaccination.

Never mind...there's really nothing to say to the above that doesn't already speak for itself.
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WTF Vaccines causing health problems to young children, serious health problems, is not conspiracy theory, it's reality.
WTF Seat belts causing health problems to young children, serious health problems, is not conspiracy theory, it's reality.
WTF Helmets causing health problems to young children, serious health problems, is not conspiracy theory, it's reality.
WTF Dogs causing health problems to young children, serious health problems, is not conspiracy theory, it's reality.
WTF Stairs causing health problems to young children, serious health problems, is not conspiracy theory, it's reality.
WTF Toys causing health problems to young children, serious health problems, is not conspiracy theory, it's reality.

Your point?

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Maybe you should take the time to read all of those links.
You think those people have some nefarious agenda?
You think this is relevant for some reason?
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Here's a primer: http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.co...ount/Home.html

At the time of writing, 79 365 cases of preventable illnesses, of which 727 resulted in deaths. This is contrasted with 0 cases of autism found to have been caused by vaccination.
Go spread those lies somewhere else. In the fifties I think there were over a million cases a year of measles and about 500 deaths a year. 60 years later I'm sure most of those lives would be saved by modern medicine.

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Go spread those lies somewhere else.
They are not lies.
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Old 29th May 2011, 08:34 PM   #261
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Children are born autistic, or on the autism spectrum, and subtle signs are there months before MMR vaccination takes place. Less subtle signs tend to show up around the time the MMR vaccination takes place, that doesn't mean the MMR vaccine has any connection to autism.
As for the vaccinations against HPV, my daughter got them, and like the vast majority of young women, she had no side effects whatsoever.
Humanity has eradicated one disease from the human population so far, small pox, due mostly to a vaccination program. We are so close to doing the same with other deadly diseases like polio, and we were getting there with measles, until this idiocy.
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Children are born autistic, or on the autism spectrum, and subtle signs are there months before MMR vaccination takes place. Less subtle signs tend to show up around the time the MMR vaccination takes place, that doesn't mean the MMR vaccine has any connection to autism.
As for the vaccinations against HPV, my daughter got them, and like the vast majority of young women, she had no side effects whatsoever.
Humanity has eradicated one disease from the human population so far, small pox, due mostly to a vaccination program. We are so close to doing the same with other deadly diseases like polio, and we were getting there with measles, until this idiocy.
The idiocy is the belief that children, after what, 600,000 years are now becoming autistic because they are genetically disposed to. Inherited brain dysfunction. That's nutso. World wide inherited autism.

What do kids with autism have in common? Start with that and get back to planet Earth?

Show me a study that produces 1000 autistic children who were never vaccinated.

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Old 30th May 2011, 12:52 AM   #263
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Autism has always been with us. The only reason there seems to be an increase now is that they broadened the diagnostic symptoms for autism to the point where just about anyone with any "weirdness" to them now qualifies.

But how many kids get diagnosed as "mentally retarded" now? Since that almost never happens anymore I declare that vaccines have eliminated it.
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Old 30th May 2011, 04:03 AM   #264
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What do kids with autism have in common? Start with that and get back to planet Earth?


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A diagnosis of autism rather than failing to be diagnosed, or being simply labelled "retarded".
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Old 30th May 2011, 05:33 AM   #265
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Show me a study that produces 1000 autistic children who were never vaccinated.
What would be the point? You would come back saying either that

a) the study is flawed somehow, or

b) that all right, so vaccines aren't the only thing that causes autism. Although admittedly that would be some sort of progress.

Edit: but as vaccines do not cause autism, I suspect I already know what the statistics, when presented to you, will show.
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Old 30th May 2011, 06:48 AM   #266
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The idiocy is the belief that children, after what, 600,000 years are now becoming autistic because they are genetically disposed to. Inherited brain dysfunction. That's nutso. World wide inherited autism.
The idiocy is the belief that children after what, 600,000 years are now developing ADD because they are genetically disposed to. Inherited brain dysfunction. That's nutso. World wide inherited ADD.

You don't see the flaw at all in your logic?

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What do kids with autism have in common? Start with that and get back to planet Earth?
My God...they all drink WATER!

Quick, everyone! Stop drinking water!
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Old 30th May 2011, 06:55 AM   #268
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But how many kids get diagnosed as "mentally retarded" now? Since that almost never happens anymore I declare that vaccines have eliminated it.
They've also completely wiped out melancholia and dementia praecox.
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Old 30th May 2011, 07:18 AM   #269
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It is difficult, to say the least, to convince someone (particularly a mother) that their child's illness or disability cannot necessarily be blamed on an event such as innoculation rather than accept that it's just one of those things that we are all at risk of to a greater or lesser degree.

Vaccinations do have side effects, that is why manufacturers have to state that there is risk on the product labelling. A drug is approved if it can be demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the benefit outweighs the risk, but that still leaves risk. It is a fact that drugs have been released that have resulted in appalling outcomes - e.g. Thalidomide.

Take all of the above facts, add heart-rending anecdotes that a child was diagnosed autistic after some vaccine shots (yes, I know these events are coincidental), claims of curing the apparently incurable through diet or bicarbonate of soda or whatever, and you end up with a hell of an uphill battle to educate and get acceptance by some that we need to act collectively for the benefit of all even at personal risk to us or our children.
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Old 30th May 2011, 07:28 AM   #270
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Go spread those lies somewhere else. In the fifties I think there were over a million cases a year of measles and about 500 deaths a year. 60 years later I'm sure most of those lives would be saved by modern medicine.
'Modern medicine' would include vaccinations.

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Children are born autistic, or on the autism spectrum, and subtle signs are there months before MMR vaccination takes place. Less subtle signs tend to show up around the time the MMR vaccination takes place, that doesn't mean the MMR vaccine has any connection to autism.
As for the vaccinations against HPV, my daughter got them, and like the vast majority of young women, she had no side effects whatsoever.
Humanity has eradicated one disease from the human population so far, small pox, due mostly to a vaccination program. We are so close to doing the same with other deadly diseases like polio, and we were getting there with measles, until this idiocy.
Unfortunately, human stupidity is the most resilient parasite of all.

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My God...they all drink WATER!

Quick, everyone! Stop drinking water!
I...I can't! What have they done to me! Help!

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Well, iron lung sound a lot like Iron Man, so it's gotta be cool, right?
Yes...it was especially...cool...how he could...only talk when...the machine...put air through...his mouth.
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Old 30th May 2011, 10:46 AM   #272
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Go spread those lies somewhere else. In the fifties I think there were over a million cases a year of measles and about 500 deaths a year. 60 years later I'm sure most of those lives would be saved by modern medicine.
The same modern medicine you are denying.
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They've also completely wiped out melancholia and dementia praecox.
Bad bile and dark humor also seem to have been eradicated.


(except in alt-med circles)
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'Modern medicine' would include vaccinations.

Unfortunately, human stupidity is the most resilient parasite of all.

I...I can't! What have they done to me! Help!
Beer.
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The idiocy is the belief that children, after what, 600,000 years are now becoming autistic because they are genetically disposed to.
200 000. There were no humans around 600 000 years ago.

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Go spread those lies somewhere else. In the fifties I think there were over a million cases a year of measles and about 500 deaths a year. 60 years later I'm sure most of those lives would be saved by modern medicine.
I couldn't care less what you think. This is a sceptic's forum, we try to base our posts on verified facts. The facts in this case are that the diseases prevented by vaccines still take lives -- like most any disease. In fact, nothing in the world has a 100% survival rate.
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Beer.
Yeah, that's a good idea! I'll drink beer, and then harder and harder liquor, and eventually I won't need to drink anything at all! It's like a breatharian, except with just liquid! Thanks, tsig!

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200 000. There were no humans around 600 000 years ago.

Edit to add
I couldn't care less what you think. This is a sceptic's forum, we try to base our posts on verified facts. The facts in this case are that the diseases prevented by vaccines still take lives -- like most any disease. In fact, nothing in the world has a 100% survival rate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#Evolution

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Homo sapiens idaltu (roughly translated as "elder wise human"), the other known subspecies, is now extinct.[16] Homo neanderthalensis, which became extinct 30,000 years ago, has sometimes been classified as a subspecies, "Homo sapiens neanderthalensis"; genetic studies now suggest that the functional DNA of modern humans and Neanderthals diverged 500,000 years ago.
Tell me about your bs facts. Show me a study of the numbers of autistic children who didn't receive vaccinations.
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Unfortunately Clayton, countries with systems that could tabulate autism are also countries where all the kids get vaccines. That doesn't mean there are no kids with autism in places with no vaccines. There's just no one there to diagnose them with autism.
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Old 31st May 2011, 01:27 AM   #279
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... the very first para of which states:
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Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago, reaching full behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago.
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Foot bullet much?
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Tell me about your bs facts. Show me a study of the numbers of autistic children who didn't receive vaccinations.
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Maurice Hilleman developed the MMR vaccine starting in 1963.

The term "autism" was first used in 1911 by Eugen Bleuler.

Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger (among others) were diagnosing autism in the 1940s.

None of these gentlemen's patients could possibly have received the MMR vaccine, and yet each was diagnosed with having ASD.

Of course, then there's this, but there are lots of big words in that so let me simplify: the physical / genetic / chemical composition of an autistic brain is different than that of a non-autistic brain. Unless you can demonstrate that these differences are caused by vaccines (and further, why the vast majority of children receiving vaccines do *not* show these differences,) your lies about vaccines are shown to be just that.
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200 000. There were no humans around 600 000 years ago.

Edit to add
I couldn't care less what you think. This is a sceptic's forum, we try to base our posts on verified facts. The facts in this case are that the diseases prevented by vaccines still take lives -- like most any disease. In fact, nothing in the world has a 100% survival rate.
I know personally the parents of maybe 10 young children including my granddaughters. 3 of the little boys are autistic. Where is your skepticism? You actually think 22 different vaccines couldn't screw up a baby's brain.

Vaccines aren't freaking pills with a specific dosage. Vaccines are live diseases, injected into a baby.

What freaking disease goes directly into the blood stream and directly into the brain? I guess the closest thing in nature would be snake venom and we all know how that works out. And then there's mosquitoes injecting malaria into the bloodstream.
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