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watching the dateline @ MMR + Autism?

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  • DandelionMomDandelionMom
    I thought it was interesting too.  I don't question the importance of vaccines but I do question the schedule. 
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  • breezy0629breezy0629 member

    Auntie.... you'll love the part where Wakefield took his 'control' study blood from kids at a birthday party????!!!!!! 

    I just felt like for once, maybe the media did something a little bit right. It never suggested much other than HE is a quack and maybe some of the stuff out there that is PURELY for 'autism cure' is so skewed that we can't trust it.  At least it'll make a few parents think twice.

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  • Glendi2.0Glendi2.0

    I don't think I ever heard him (Wakefield) say anything "real" during the entire piece. While I don't completely discount the notion that SOME vaccinations may be a sort of "trigger" for autism in SOME children, I really believe what he has done to the autism community is a shame.

    and seriously. To think all this "science" began with a dozen kids at a birthday party... shudder.

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    What I found interesting is that the person who the media uses to bash Dr. Wakefield (and I am not saying Dr. Wakefield is or isn't justified in his claims) is Dr. Paul Offit.  He is the same man who developed the Rotavirus vaccine that was pulled from the market due to causing severe adverse reactions.  He helped reformulate it and it was reintroduced in 2006 and it continues to cause severe reactions.   

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  • zeptattoozeptattoo member
    Part of the problem I have with anyone trying to pinpoint a cause to autism is that I think "autism" is too general a catagory.  I teach in the general ed HS classroom and I have had a couple of (high functioning) autistic kids that also have sub-labels attached to them.  Is it possible that there are several causes to the several forms of autism and researchers are looking for something too broad?  Maybe the vaccine idea is appropriate for one form and not the others?
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  • what??what??
    This whole vaccine and autism theory makes me crazy!  I agree with Auntie!
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  • FutureMrsDenmanFutureMrsDenman member

    Here is a very interesting podcast about vaccines I just listened to with my husband the other day.  The person who does the show is an infectious disease doctor, so the topic falls within his area of expertise (he makes money off people who ARE NOT vaccinated BTW ... NOT people who ARE, so don't let his status as a doctor make you turn away without giving him a chnace).  He made some really interesting points and has numbers and stats to back up what he is saying.  He does use homor to make the podcast more interesting, so be forewarned it is not all straight science talk.  I think it is worth a listen ...

    https://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_29.mp3

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  • FutureMrsDenmanFutureMrsDenman member
    imageFutureMrsDenman:

    https://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_29.mp3

    Drat ... I guess that link doesn't work.  Try going to iTunes and sarching for QuackCast and then looking for podcast 29 about Vaccines.  Sorry about the bum link.

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