Reported for threadshitting.
Some people you can shut up.
Unfortunately a small vocal group of morons can’t be shut up no matter how much evidence you throw at them.
Sigh.
I could get behind that… or we could chelate him.
The worst thing about that article is that, if we hadn’t been wasting time and resources down a dead-end pathway, we could be further on in ACTUAL research on autism.
This, THIS, my friend, is my point! As I’ve said before, how much time, money, and manpower have we wasted, THROWN AWAY, on this dead-end, trying to either pin down the connection (before it was known that Wakefield was a lying sack of shit) or reassure parents that there was no connection (after the tsunami of data began to build that he was a lying sack of shit)?
Those are resources that are gone forever, that could have been better used in this arena of exploration.
And the McCarthyites (which has a different chilling meaning today) will not ever let it go, they’ll never shut up, and they’ll never stop poisoning the public discourse with their meaningless braying.
I echo Lavender Blue’s post ending above…
sigh.
Worse.
They’ll never stop trying to poisoning the public with needless outbreaks of infectious illnesses.
Yea, but nobody DIES from the measles, silly. After all, I had German measles, and chicken pox, and I’m still here, aren’t I? So that’s proof that those ridiculous dangerous vaccines aren’t necessary. :rolleyes:
The illogic, is it to laugh.
I love this video from CNN. You have to watch the end where, after the past few minutes of discussing the retraction, the newsreader woman actually says something to the effect that this new finding is sure going to validate people like Jenny McCarthy wherein the other woman has to explain what a retraction means.
I’m extremely disappointed that CNN’s so-called medical expert stated that the anti-vax people claim that there have been studies since Wakefield’s that indicated a link without then saying “that claim is not true.”
That’s an oxymoron! Wait, you didn’t say they’ll never stop poisoning the public with needles :smack:
The mainstream media can be sadly wishywashy on this subject sometimes.
The problem with Wakefield’s “study” is that you have to accept a series of hypothesis that don’t make sense.
More here:
I’ve been reading about this issue for years and years. I really need to write a book that explains all I’ve learned about anti-vaccine myths and all the bad science behind them. Actually I desperate want to write the book or I swear some days I’m going to explode.
Let me know if anyone on the board is interested in being my co-author.
Especially after reading the mommy boards while Earth Mommy Perfect blithely explains that her children are healthier because she’s dumb enough not to vaccinate them. Yeah sure the eldest broke a rib from whooping cough and the youngest was miserable for weeks from hacking out a lung and yeah they were worried sick when she stepped on a rusty nail but by god they avoided those nasty vaccines and her kids have the very delightful natural immunity.
Damn, with media like this, it’s no wonder people are misinformed about these issues. What an absolutely pitiful attempt to inform the public, if that’s even what they were trying to do there.
I hate to spoil a great simile but… what’s a frat girl?
You did that deliberately, didn’t you? 
I’m in. When’s our first planning and strategy meeting?
Like a fag hag, but for heteros.
Need any more help?
And in reading the article you linked to, I see even more reason for children to get the MMR, if congenital rubella syndrome is a possible contributing cause of autism.
And I actually read a comment from a mother a couple days ago, saying that you should let your children catch chicken pox the natural way, as it will “toughen them up”. Sometimes I despair.
Look, it’s not like we should push the anti-vaxers on the issue, after all, I’m sure they all have plenty of reasons why it wouldn’t be so bad if Little Timmy got polio.
I don’t know about that. Put all kolga’s reprints in a nice big three-ring binder, and I think you could shut anybody up with that evidence. Assuming you had good aim, of course.
It’s amazing that this study wasn’t withdrawn years ago.