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- This article blames "them" -- scientists, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies -- for ignoring the potential risks of vaccines. But there is no "them" -- no single, unified body of researchers who all say the same thing, and don't care about patients' lives. Encouraging people to fear and distrust all of medical science is irresponsible.
Just because "they" have been wrong sometimes doesn't mean that everything "we" say is true. Some parents say that there's a link between vaccines and autism. They may be right, and they may be wrong -- but if they want to be taken seriously, they need to provide real evidence.
It helps if you avoid saying things like this: "While there's no definitive study linking vaccines to autism or ADD, there is also no study definitively disproving a link." It's a basic principle of science that you can't "prove" a negative. The burden of proof is on the person who's making the claim. - Reply to this comment
- This article blames "them" -- scientists, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies -- for ignoring the potential risks of vaccines. But there is no "them" -- no single, unified body of researchers who all say the same thing, and don't care about patients' lives. Encouraging people to fear and distrust all of medical science is irresponsible.
Just because "they" have been wrong sometimes doesn't mean that everything "we" say is true. Some parents say that there's a link between vaccines and autism. They may be right, and they may be wrong -- but if they want to be taken seriously, they need to provide real evidence.
It helps if you avoid saying things like this: "While there's no definitive study linking vaccines to autism or ADD, there is also no study definitively disproving a link." It's a basic principle of science that you can't "prove" a negative. The burden of proof is on the person who's making the claim. - Reply to this comment
- This is the most clearly articulated article I've ever seen on this topic. Trust and integrity in science, medicine and journalism is very important. The reasons and issues raised in this article make it clear why those of us, especially those of us who have worked on the front-lines in health care for decades, and who saw our normally developing infants literally fall apart within days of vaccination, distrustful of those in medicine, industry, government and the media who will not listen. Continuing to try to convince people that "that which cannot be, must not be" is not working any longer.
It's way past the time when serious research is funded and conducted on the biological mechanisms by which a minority of children are injured by vaccines. These are most likely avoidable injuries if only we knew which babies should be vaccinated differently and should not be subjected to a one-size-fits-all medical protocol. Such protocols are soundly rejected everywhere else in health care, why is it tolerated for our most vulnerable and precious infants?
Vicky Pebsworth Debold, PhD, RN
Public Health and Nursing
Mother of a 10-year-old boy diagnosed with autism - Reply to this comment
- This is the most fair and balance piece we have ever seen written on the case many parents have been trying to make for year.
On behalf of Generation Rescue, and organization with more than 350 parent-volunteer families, thank you from the bottom of our heart.
JB Handley
Portland, OR - Reply to this comment
- Way to go! What a lot of us parents out there with autistic/vaccine injured kids have been saying for years! I just want a healthy child! I want to be able to vaccinate her, and not worry that if I do she won't fall further into the hole of autism.
My child has in the last 3-4 months has become constipated, She went for 10 days without a bowel movement, and only then an enima took care of it, and more and more enimas every 7-10 days, since she seems to no longer be able to go.
She had a terrible x-ray all filled with fluid levels, her ped was so concerned that she almost hospitialized her! We finally got her into a ped gastro, he says its nothing, no need to scope her, just give her an adult dose 2 times a day of miralax, and an enima if she is too uncomfortable.... Dosen't need to see her back!
Sorry but if you or I stopped having bowel movements they would have you scoped so fast!
Anyhow, off the subject but thanks for reporting what is really going on out there! - Reply to this comment
- THANK YOU! for summarizing what parents have tried to tell MSM for years. Reporters need to read the transcripts, not the hype. Look at the FOIA documents, the children's medical records. Listen to the plaintiffs' expert witnesses -- a federal trial is not a "parents vs. science" scenario, but a lazy headline writer's bias.
Look at Day 1 transcript page 40, line 18. Read how little Michelle Cecillo pounded on her chest, trying to tell us something. She was in pain. Someone listened, she was scoped, and a lesion found in her esophagus. She got treatment, stopped pounding, and another scope showed the lesion was healed.
In 2002 I took my son to a university for a tantrum study. A psychologist was paid to watch my son freak out. Months later, disillusioned but better educated, I had medical tests run that showed mercury toxicity and nutritional deficiency. Within 2 weeks of getting supplements my son's tantrums diminished drastically.
How many other children are being watched, instead of helped? How many are being punished for behaviors borne of pain and illness? How many doctors are giving drugs that mask or worsen symptoms, instead of treating the root cause?
This is a national disgrace. A horrible tragedy has been visited upon a generation of children suffering from autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, allergies, immune disorders, speech disorders, etc.
No child should be written off as collateral damage in the war on disease. - Reply to this comment
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