Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
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The evidence is clear, vaccinations don't cause autism.
Vaccinations prevent horrible, sometimes fatal, diseases. There is a tiny danger present in vaccination but that danger is minute in comparison to the dangers to be found in skipping childhood vaccinations. Diseases such as mumps, measles, rubella, influenza, polio, and hepatitis kill and maim children.
This page investigates the dirty origin of the dangerous myth that vaccines cause autism.
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Please Read First
Please note that this page is not about all reasons parents may choose not to vaccinate their children. It is solely about the danger of people basing their decision not to vaccinate their children on the "vaccines cause autism" myth. It does not address any other reasons, many of which are rational and valid, for parents to choose to question vaccination practices.
While many parents may have valid reasons for choosing not to vaccinate, the "vaccines cause autism" myth has caused many other people to avoid vaccinating because they fear that getting their children vaccinated will cause their children to develop autism.
So please keep in mind while reading this page that it is not a listing of every cause people have for choosing not to vaccinate but it is about the exposure of a single irrational cause, one which has duped many into a decision they might otherwise not make.
Spreading the Myth
Anti-vaxxer celebrities have made the anti-vaccine lobby swell
Celebrities Versus Your Pediatrician
Who knows best? Your family doctor or an anti-vaxxer celebrity?
While it's great that some celebrities decide to champion causes in support of sufferers of illnesses they can be a dangerous source of misinformation if they get their information wrong.
When making choices for the health of your child, whose opinion is more important, your pediatrician's or some celebrity's opinion?
Who do you listen to in regard to your child's health?
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sockii says:
While doctors don't always know all the answers themselves, I sure don't trust celebrities with no medical training to have a clue. They are quick to jump on the latest campaign, or look for any "excuse" why their children aren't "perfect." Far easier to blame big bad government and the medical industry than random misfortune - or even perhaps just the statistics of having children later in life or even having engaged in activities which can have unfortunate pre-natal effects.
Posted November 30, 2011
Serenia says:
Actually I listen to myself and make my own decision but I do listen to the doctors AND I do my own research. I do not consider Jenny McCarthy to be a good role-model just because her son became autistic after getting the MMR vaccination.
Posted July 02, 2011
Cinnamonbite says:
Can't even trust your doctors. I had to switch docs because the one we had been seeing moved to another state. The new doc asked if I was against vaccinations and I said absolutely not. He said the old doctor was, she had a reputation among other docs and she hadn't given my son all of his shots. SHE DIDN'T ASK MY PERMISSION to let my son run around unprotected! Everyone should check online and verify that their kids have all their proper shots and not take their doctor's word for it.
Posted June 20, 2011
Sandy Howarth says:
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Posted December 14, 2010
Recoverhealthnow says:
The most comprehensive report on “government-approved medicine” ever conducted shows that organized medicine has killed 7,841,360 Americans in the last 10 years. “Our estimated 10-year total of 7.8 million iatrogenic [doctor-induced] deaths is more than all the casualties from all the wars fought by the U.S. throughout its entire history,” commented the Nutrition Institute of America (NIA), in its report, “Death By Medicine” (Oct., 2003).
Posted November 12, 2010
If you are thinking of not having your children vaccinated I suggest you investigate your own family tree. Look back one or two generations and count the children born versus the children who survived to adulthood. Almost every family lost children to diseases now preventable by vaccines. In my case, it was my eldest brother. My mother lost three siblings to childhood diseases. Why would anyone want to bring that child mortality rate back?
Are Celebrities Responsible for Deaths Caused By Misinformation They Spread?
Are people responsible for the information they spread? Are celebrities responsible if their bad advice causes deaths or injuries?
Anti-Vaccination Myths in the News
- Mercury again ruled out as autism cause
- The discredited idea that the form of mercury, called ethylmercury, sometimes used in vaccines may lead to autism has led toreductions in vaccine rates and increases in cases of preventable diseases, such as measles and mumps, according to the study.
- 3 changes to children's vaccine recommendations announced
- When new changes are made to the vaccination schedule, he said, "it's just a matter of explanation and discussion with your pediatrician." 5 Dangerous Vaccination Myths Beyond Vaccines: 5 Things that Might Really Cause Autism What to Do (And Not to Do) ...
- Influenza or Cold? Learn to Differentiate
- Vaccines are also available in pharmacies (at a cost), however in recent days there has been a shortage as well with suppliers. There are myths that the influenza vaccine can cause arthritis, autism and related diseases to the nervous system.
- Rep. Dan Burton's Legacy: Lots of Sick Kids
- In 2000, he held a circus-like hearing in which he provided a very high profile platform for the now entirely disgraced British doctor Andrew Wakefield, who helped spawn the myth that vaccines cause autism. Wakefield has since lost his medical license ...
Dangers Presented By Measles
Just one disease childhood vaccinations prevent
While a child who gets measles has an 85% chance of recovering without severe consequences, that child may give the illness to others who may not be as lucky.
Fortunately, measles is a disease easily prevented by vaccination. Recent vaccination efforts have resulted in a 60% drop in yearly deaths from measles. However, measles still causes around 345,000 deaths worldwide each year, mostly in third world countries where vaccination is uncommon.
Unfortunately, many people have stopped having their children vaccinated due to misinformation that autism is caused by vaccinations. This endangers other children too young to be vaccinated yet, increasing the risk of measles in developed country.
Read more about measles.
Read More About The "Vaccinations Cause Autism" Misinformation Scandal
- Jenny McCarthy Body Count
- This page gives an estimate of the number of people dead due to the "vaccines cause autism" myth as endorsed and spread by celebrity Jenny McCarthy. Exposes the real dangers caused by the anti-vaxxer movement.
- Dr. Mark Geier Severely Criticized
- Professional witness and son own the patent to a chelation treatment for autism. This page gives the detailed information as to why his testimony was thrown out in the case of Weiss v. SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.
- Sense About Science
- Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who first suggested a link between MMR vaccinations and autism has been struck off the medical register.
- Unethical Doctor Finally Gets Struck Off Records
- Explains and explores Dr Wakefield's corruption and callous nature as well as the danger caused by skipping vaccines. Explores some of the dirty facts behind the anti-vax movement.
Books and Articles about Autism and Vaccine Safety
A Coincidence of Timing
Children are usually diagnosed with autism between the ages of three and five. Children get their first vaccinations before those ages and many get a cluster at around age four or five, prior to going to school. The three to five age group is usually when the symptoms of autism become most noticeable because normal three to five year old children are communicative. The autistic children don't present normally for milestones associated with that age group. Coincidentally, many of them have just gotten vaccines as this is the age at which many children begin preschool or get readied for kindergarten.
With or without vaccinations, children will be diagnosed at the age they fail to meet a normal developmental milestone.
Do Vaccines Cause Autism
The study suggesting autism might have been caused by vaccinations has been debunked. Its author has been shown to have had a financial interest in the outcome of the study and it has also been proven that his methodology was bizarre and unscientific. So do you still think vaccines cause autism?
Read More About the MMR Vaccine Scandal
- The Lancet Scandal
- Following a Sunday Times investigation by Brian Deer, Britain's premier medical journal was forced to retract fraudulent research which caused a global health crisis by linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine with autism.
- The Media's MMR Hoax
- Explains how the media's reaction to the faulty MMR study created widespread panic about vaccines.
- Doctor Fixed Data on Autism-MMR Shot Link
- Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who initially sparked concerns over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children is said to have changed and misreported results in his research, which created the appearance of a possible link with autism.
What do You Think about Vaccination?
Are you anti-vax or pro-vax?
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sockii
Nov 30, 2011 @ 1:52 pm | delete
- This is an excellent lens discussing an issue which far too many people are willing to just listen to celebrities about instead of learning the real facts. While there may be some debatable link between vaccination and autism, it has yet to be proven and too many parents are causing clear risk to their childrens' lives by not vaccinating them, based on simply what someone like Jenny McCarthy says.
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Serenia
Jul 2, 2011 @ 7:58 am | delete
- I actually do think that the MMR vaccine does have a component that causes autism, but its NOT ONLY the vaccines fault. The kids also have to have something genetic that is susceptible as well.
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Margo_Arrowsmith
Feb 14, 2011 @ 4:51 am | delete
- Well, the celebrities rarely say that vaccines cause it, but that so many at once, especially with the neurotoxins (which have been removed, perhaps due to celebrities) are dangerous.
But well done lens and angel blessed
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Margo_Arrowsmith
Feb 14, 2011 @ 4:51 am | delete
- Well, the celebrities rarely say that vaccines cause it, but that so many at once, especially with the neurotoxins (which have been removed, perhaps due to celebrities) are dangerous.
But well done lens and angel blessed
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Recoverhealthnow
Nov 12, 2010 @ 12:43 am | delete
- Let’s get down to hard facts. 20 years ago a child by 6 years old According to the CDC vaccine schedule got 10 shot 30 vaccines. Today In 2010 by 6 years old in the US the child gets 36 shots 109 vaccines. Just a few months Ago they added 4 more shots to the CDC’s vaccine schedule.
Here is the big one. Never have they done studies of the cumulative effects
Of all the chemicals, viruses, Pathogens, RNA/DNA of animals.
Do you think a childs DNA will ever be the same? Here take a look so you can see what I mean: Toxic Vaccine Ingredients: Varicella virus/ human diploid lung cells, Embryonic Guinea pig cell cultures, Beef heart infusion/ fetal bovine serum, Ammonium Sulfate, Glutamate, Neomycin, Diphtheria, Tetanus Toxoids, & Acellular pertussis endotoxin, beef heart infusion/fetal bovine serum, aluminum, formaldehyde, Thimerosal (mercury derivative), phenol/phenoxyethanol, polysorbate 80 (Tween 80), dry natural latex rubber, Hepatitis B virus gene / yeast protein, Aluminum, Formaldehyde, Thimerosal (mercury derivative), Diphtheria Toxoid, Tetanus Toxoid, Haemophilus influenza type b antigen, Neisseria meningitides serogroup B, Ammonia Sulfate, Aluminum, Thimerosal (Mercury derivative), Dry natural latex rubber, Hepatitis B virus gene / yeast protein, Haemophilus influenza type b antigen, Neisseria meningitides serogroup B, Aluminum, Formaldehyde, Mumps virus / chick embryo culture, Rubella virus / human diploid lung cells, Beef heart infusion / fetal bovine serum, Human albumin, Sorbitol/sucrose, Aspartame, Glutamate, Neomycin, Diphtheria toxoid, Streptococcus pneumonia/ soy peptone broth/ yeast, Ammonium Sulfate, Glutamate, Neomycin, Polio virus/ monkey kidney cell, beef heart infusion/fetal bovine serum, formaldehyde, phenol/phenoxyethanol, dry natural latex rubber, neomycin
GOT ADD/ADHD? Go ahead and be my guess. Its is your childs DNA they want to trash!
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