Mainstream medicine continues to debunk autism-vaccine link
Posted By Phyllis on December 7, 2009
Medical news sources continue to debunk any link between autism and vaccines, saying there is good research that has closed the issue.
For example, a recent issue of the Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, reported in ScienceDaily.com, reviews existing research on vaccine safety in regard to autism. It looks only at the two most-published causation theories, mercury and MMR. It concludes that “there is not convincing scientific evidence supporting a relationship between vaccines and autism.” Therefore, the headline trumpets that there is “no scientific link” between autism and vaccines.
The logic of this conclusion is obviously faulty.
1. There are many other variables about the way vaccines are made and the schedules that are used. Only two variables have been eliminated: thimerosal mercury and measles virus found in the MMR.
2. Since research to date hasn’t identified a link, there isn’t any link. Research to date is very narrow in scope. No one has dared to do a simple epidemiological study that compares autism rates in kids who have been vaccinated with autism rates in kids who haven’t been.
Meanwhile, the anecdotal evidence mounts.
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Phylis, thank you for this link. I live in the broadcast area of WETM TV 18 news, and somehow I never saw this when it originally aired. I am posting this on my blog, with my thanks.
You’re welcome!