Comments on: Vaccine-Autism Link Ruled Out By Court

Judges Find No Evidence Of Autism Risk From Vaccines In Three Cases Brought By Parents

[redhoffer]

The whole vaccines are supported because they make lots of money is so inaccurate. Vaccines are supported because they are proven to save thousands of lives, and the vaccine/autism link should not be supported because study after study after study after study proves that there is not a connection.
If a parent chooses not to vaccinate their child, they are just as at-risk of their child being autistic as if they did the vaccines. But... those unvaccinated children put themselves, other kids (even if vaccinated), and adults in danger of serious disease. Vaccines are one of the greatest health advances in the last 100 years. We need them. Research on autism in urgent, but stop wasting money of trying to blame vaccines and look for a real cure. We proved vaccines don''t cause autism. Lets spend our resources and money elsewhere to seek a cure for the condition.

[spredbury]

Sorry, folks but I don''t agree with the ruling. Anything the Government has a hand in is suspect in my mind. Did anyone really think the Government was going to rule against itself? My child is grown and past the MMR hurdle but if I had children who were at the age to get the MMR vaccine I would definitely weigh the options. And don''t try to tell me the judges were independent of the Government.

[lloydbest1]

Whether thimerosol had anything to do with autism or not is a moot point. It does not matter...
It is not a good idea to have organic mercury compounds in anything taken in by the human body - regardless of purpose and of dose. There are other preservatives that are shown to be nonhazardous and are just as effective. In fact most drug companies have abandoned the use of mercury for their vaccines.
That being the case, vaccination of young ones is still a very good idea. I am old enough to have seen what a diptheria epidemic can do to a community so I am uncomfortable with the notion that parents can just blow off vaccines. Just make sure your doctor or pharmacist tells you what''s in them and, to be safe, opt for those that do not contain mercury as a preservative.

[rational_1]

...but for a few to be permanantly disabled for the sake of all doesn''t set well with those parents that have been impacted directly.
Posted by Lilred80vett at 12:19 PM : Feb 12, 2009

But one of the major points of the epidemiological studies is that autism rates do not differ in kids who are or are not vaccinated - in other words unvaccinated kids have the same incidence of autism as vaccinated children. Why are these unvaccinated kids getting autism? This is the evidence to which this court case alludes. If there was a connection it would have shown up as a statistically significant difference in autism incidence between subject groups.

So, although I understand the need for parents of autistic children to know why their children are afflicted, there are better trees to bark under than vaccinations. They note a temporal CORRELATION between vaccination and onset of autism symptoms and are assuming a CAUSAL relationship that is not supported by the epidemiological studies..

[wiccantexan]

Autism tends to start manifesting around 18 months to 2 years old. Two friends of mine with adult autistic children (now 37 and 38) said that they believe it''s pretty much coincidential with the shots that toddlers tend to get around this time.

[lilred80vett]

If you too had a child that "suddenly", after receiving their vaccines, did an about face in mental development, social skills, etc. - you too would look for "some external blame". I know "our children" need vaccines, world history proves this, but for a few to be permanantly disabled for the sake of all doesn''t set well with those parents that have been impacted directly. Was there some pressure to rule in the government''s favor - better believe it. (We''re talking billions here!) Someone needs to stand for those wronged, demand full disclosure and further testing. Period!

[erasmus606]

I can understand parents not wanting to get their kids vaccinated. I didn''t want to have to do it either. But I would rather do that than have them die from one of the diseases. If parents don''t wise up, these diseases will be back and MANY children and ADULTS will be dying.

[redhoffer]

Thank you to the courts for ruling accurately in this case. There is so much proof that vaccines are so urgent, yet too many parents are swayed by the baseless blabberings by a few who swear, despite so much evidence, that vaccines cause autism.
These parents need to find some external blame I guess when their kids suffer autism and I feel for them, but we need our kids to get vaccinated.