One of the best lines I’ve read on this endless debate:
“History tells us that a lot of ground-breaking discoveries are made by mavericks who don’t follow the mainstream,” says Laidler. “What is often left out is that most of the mavericks are just plain wrong. They laughed at Galileo and Edison, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown and Don Knotts.”
(via PointofLaw.com)
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I think people who have kids with autism (or any disability) just want something, anything, to blame it on, to help it make sense. In the cause of autism, vaccines are convenient given the time frame from diagnosis and the time frame from immunization.
Megan as a mother of a 7 year old whose autistic and
non verbal let me speak for
those who cannot. What we
WANT is the TRUTH. You are
so very wrong, maybe you should do a little research
or perhaps spend time with a frustrated child who cannot communicate. Have a nice day.
What the lay people who blame vaccines call ‘research’ differs substantially from the application of scientific methods.
They lay vaccine blamers ‘research’ what they can access to read. The higher the actual scientific content of the material they have, the less they can possibly understand as it relates to the underlying science.
Research to the scientist means getting your hands dirty with acquiring real data, whether epidemiological, or experimentally derived. The real research by those who know research says no connection with autism and vaccination.
But the vaccine dopes have a belife system that is not founded in open minded exploration. They are closed to any possibility of their belief being wrong. And thus, instead of going where the data leads, they taylor their interpretation of the data to fit their ‘hypothesis’.
Marcel’s Mom,
But what if there’s no truth to be had? In living with a chronic condition, you may have to come to accept the possibility that you will just never know. Wanting the truth badly is not in itself going to give you an answer.
I get frustrated with people who judge families
like mine who deal with this
every day. The last word
my son used was “hat” and that was three years ago. At
7 he isnt potty trained, & when we go out as a family
we have to put a leash on his pants so he wont wander off. Imagine if your child
couldnt even say “I love you mommy and daddy.” We have no social life, which is okay with us but hard on
friends and family. Remember there was a time when we didnt know that cigarettes cause cancer and NOW its written on the side of cigarette packages. My brother works for a pharmaceutical company. I believe in innoculations. In
my oppionion the shots should have been given further and farther between.
Please, unless you have a child suffering from autism (not a cousin or a nephew)
but your own child, please dont judge so harshly. Thank you, Marcels mom
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