Autism and Immunizations
Posted by Troy | Filed under Autism
I’ve long given up hope that a TV news magazine would air an honest feature about autism.
Somehow, I still manage to get my hopes up when I hear that a story like last night’s Dateline is coming up.
The feature was promoted as an “in-depth” look at the link between autism and vaccines and the doctor who first brought this debate to the forefront—Andrew Wakefield.
Of course this Dateline was exactly the same as every other TV news magazine feature I’ve seen…
- Crackpot doctors that challenge the “medical community” (and drug companies) should never be trusted
- Parents are ignorant and should never, ever question their pediatrician
- Only a complete moron like Jenny McCarthy would buy into such ludicrous ideas about autism having a biological component
My favorite part of the interview was how they dubbed Wakefield’s research “untrustworthy” because he may have had financial motivation… a case proven by an investigative news reporter (whose work on the case had no financial motivation at all… of course)
As a parent of a child suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorder and a member of a community of parents dealing with this disease… it has become quite obvious that Autism is in the very least linked to gastrointestinal dysfunction…
Is this linked to immunizations? No one really knows for sure…
But the fact that Wakefield has been battered and his reputation tarnished merely because he suggests it might be so… well, that is really scary.
The most frustrating thing about this show is to see a “trustworthy” source like Dateline suggest that the “silly” idea that immunizations may be dangerous has been solely propagated by a crackpot doctor and a ditsy blonde…
when the truth is that there are hundreds, maybe thousands of doctors across the country that believe in a biological component to ASD and question the mainstream assumption that all vaccines must be o.k.
I noticed Matt Lauer mention that the average American child receives 36 immunizations by age six…
So of the 25 million children born in the US over the next six years…
25,000,000 X 36 = a heck of a lot of immunizations…
Interesting that Matt Lauer didn’t mention that the show’s sponsors included the largest pharmaceutical company in the world and the most lucrative pharmaceutical company in the world??
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5 Responses to “Autism and Immunizations”
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Marlowe Says:
August 31st, 2009 at 4:22 pmAmen to that…Amen… I am so sure that Andrew Wakefield being from a prominent and privileged backround was just waiting for that 3/4 million dollars over 3 years, to make his life over the top… Jeesh. Some people are more ignorant than I thought.
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melanie clark Says:
September 1st, 2009 at 8:12 ami get my hopes up as well anytime i hear there is going to be a special on TV. i don’t know why i set my self up for disappointment. good post troy.
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Noel Says:
September 1st, 2009 at 8:25 amno, parents aren’t just ignorant, they are so emotionally involved that they are unwilling to see the hard evidence that vaccines aren’t linked to autism. that was the one comment that got me.
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Troy Says:
September 1st, 2009 at 8:28 amright… “hard evidence”
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Laura Olson Says:
September 4th, 2009 at 8:49 pmLots of money is being made with all these immunizations and now the H1N1. There is alot of greed involved in these decisions. We need fair and balanced media.
