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- Thank you Sharyl Attkisson and CBS for an objective and honest report. No hype but instead hope. It was the best report that I have seen in a long time. Your efforts are appreciated by a generation of children and their families.
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- It gets tiresome wading through the usual press spin on this issue, so it's quite a shock to run accross a report stating the facts as many of us know them and even adding new information. What, you mean we don't have to brace ourselves, steel our skepticism and quell nausea while reading a mainstream press piece on the autism/vaccine link? Since I'm unprepared for this strange and surprising event, I don't quite know what to say but thank you, Ms. Attkisson, and whichever intrepid news director or editor allowed this report to leak through the stonewall. The truth on this chapter in history will fully emerge one day and I believe you'll be among the few left untarnished.
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- The tone and the implicit conclusion of this article on a possible link between autism & vaccines is contemptible and beneath any acceptable standards of fair journalism. The author wants to assert that they MAY be a link - she certainly doesn't know if there is or not -but repeatedly accuses researchers, government officials & doctors of deliberately avoiding the issue. Her evidence? Because in the past, there have been problems with other vaccines & medications - problems, incidentally, that were researched and addressed by the very "group" (in the author's repeated use of the term "the same group who..." you would imagine there is this timeless group of medical conspirators who never age and have been covering up medical malfeasance for decades) - it is this very group of researchers & doctors who did the work to get mistakes corrected. Is medicine & science perfect? Not since the beginning of time has it been perfect - never will be. But to malign doctors just to write some pseudo-conspiratorial nonsense in order to make it look like you are some fighter for truth. This is really more about YOUR ego than the causes of autism.
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- Everyone who has a child on the Spectrum knows the truth. To think that hiding behind a psychiatric definiation would prevent us from 'knowing' is an exercise in naivity.
What you have really done is neglect the children: an entire generation who possibly could have been medically saved but were abandoned to prevent public exposure and scrutiny.
It is shameful. In the end, time will tell the truth and those who stood up to reveal it will be honoured as heros; those who sought to deceive the masses will become criminals.
My son knows the truth and he is the next generation. Healing my child stole away my marriage, my career and my life. I have spent every dime I have trying to save my boy. It is my journey and I accept this.
I am very frightened by what our generation has done to this world. We need to mitigate our losses and properly treat these children rather than continue to deny our culpability. We eventually need to stand up and do the right thing by the children born in the 1990's.
They are our future leaders of men/women and we tossed them away as though they were expendable because we didn't want to admit that it was mercury poisoning.
Provide medical care for these children around the world! Those who administered the vaccine should be required to provide medical care for the injured.
For shame indeed! - Reply to this comment
- This is really fine work for Mainstream Media. You could get a job in the underground!
It's almost a shock to see so much candor in the MSM -- are you afraid for your job?
(Kidding aside, sincere thanks to you and the network.) - Reply to this comment
- Finally a balanced, measured and thoughtful perspective. Lets not overreact nut lets not be as stupid as many who falsely claim premature safety!!!
What is left unsaid is that by not knowing for certain, and yet realizing that thimerosal is a mercury based compound and that mercury is indeed a neurotoxin, one can assume correctly that different folks (ie BABIES and CHILDREN) will have varying thresholds /sensitivities and onset of debilitating symptoms.
The authorities are insensitive to the implications of their conflicted analyses (leaving out data is heinous and grounds for retribution, nevermind more onerous punishment of the purported experts)
Is any member of those who claim any connection to studies or republication of studies, in ANY way under any conflict of interest? If so - step down NOW.
The issue is one of public health and not optimizing profits in false name of public health !!!
That means to reduce mercury load in the bodies of children seems to reduce the severity of symptoms of those suffering and afflicted, is reason to doubt the impartiality of many who claim otherwise.
All to have a longer shelf life of a vaccine? Instead of slightly higher vaccine costs of mercury / thimerosol free SAFER vaccines? Someone or many have a screw loose. FOR SHAME... - Reply to this comment
- Wonderful to finally see a serious journalist covering in mainstream media the questions most of us know the answers to. I would love to have been told about that there was a "way to test children for a hidden hole in their immune make-up that makes them susceptible to bad immune reactions from vaccinations." I would have paid full cost for my twins. Now I am paying hundreds of dollars for the CDC's cover up. I hope Ms. Attkisson teams up with David Kirby soon. She should be working with HIM!
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- Autism is not an imaginary disorder. Got it. Thanks for clearing that up. You can imagine how useful that information is to the PARENT OF A CHILD WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED AS AUTISTIC. Especially when that opinion comes from a person who appears to have many, many more opinions on the matter than actual, real-life experiences with autism or autistic kids. (At least that's how it would appear from your cookie-cutter conceptions of what autistic people are like.)
To be honest, though, you pretty much lost me at "aspartame." - Reply to this comment
- Thank you for your succinct and insightful blog post. You are a true investigative journalist in an era when most of your colleagues too often find it easier to regurgitate the press release swill churned out by slick public relations firms hired by corporations (such as pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturers) hiding behind the curtain of "non-profit" foundations rather than doing the research, basic fact-finding and verfication necessary to report an accurate story.
One important fact that has not been noted is the conflicts of interest by some in the mainstream media, such as NBC which is owned by GE. How ironic the network who is the most adamant about denying the causal connection between mercury and autism also happens to own Amersham Biosciences which provides the protein separators involved in 90% of the world's vaccine manufacturing. Oh, and by the way, they also use thimerosal. What a coincidence.
Thank you again for having the integrity and courage to do your job so throughly, even if it means going outside the comfort zone for your network's corporate advertisers.
Respectfully,
Lujene G. Clark
President
NoMercury
Trustee
Alan D. Clark, M.D. Memorial Research Foundation - Reply to this comment
- Sharyl Attkinson what a wonderful job you did reporting this story. I hope CBS is smart enough to keep you and Katie Couric around for awhile. I experied two separate occasions where I saw major news taking place and no coverage at all I couldnt believe it. After the first event I stopped reading papers and watching the news. I know I can count on Katies evening news and it is a blessing that its on TV and radio so is conveinet. Also she has the nerve to cover what other people are too afraid. Thanks for such fine coverage it made up for the rotten coverage on NPR radio Thurs. Karenburns3
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