In other news, antivaxers are crowing about a newly published study purporting to show that the incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders is markedly higher in vaccinated children compared to those who are unvaccinated.
That conclusion is based on an anonymous Internet survey of parents of home-schooled children. No verification of diagnoses or vaccinations, just parental recollections (from a group predisposed to antivax views). The abstract first appeared in a low-rent journal, was retracted, and ultimately published in an even more bottom-feeding journal.
Expect to hear lots more about this from the antivax crowd as “proof” of the evils of immunization.
Funny thing about that link is #2 on its list seems to show the idiots compiling the list are aware that the vaccine works and, in fact, is not dangerous. The rest of the list is simply dishonest scare mongering.
Update: Even the poorly-regarded open access journal that published this crappy “vaccinated vs. unvaccinated” study has been sufficiently embarrassed that the article has been retracted - for the second time!
I just went to a birthday party for the aforementioned 1 year old on May 27. Felt carsick going home.
Woke up early May 29 with a lot of body pain and then hurling, spent the rest of the day feeling like crap. It took a few days to feel right again.
As it turns out, the parents had been stricken with this whatever-virus about five days before the party (I didn’t know this at the time).
The baby got sick with a fever, my brother and his wife got sicker than I did, and my niece told us on FB, “Sorry, everyone.”
But I’m pretty sure she still won’t admit that she might just be in the wrong about vaccines and illnesses.
An EU court has decided that nope, science isn’t necessary when deciding whether to award damages for “vaccine injury”, intuition works great.
The highest court’s bizarre decision was issued in the case of a French complainant who developed multiple sclerosis a year after getting an immunization.
There is zero credible evidence that vaccination causes MS. Doesn’t matter. If enough people make the claim, that apparently translates into “specific and consistent” data which is good enough for the EU.
This can only be a good thing, since we already know frompast decisions that science is best settled in the courts.
The American system set up to provide compensation in genuine cases of vaccine-related injury, despite requiring a relatively low standard of proof (“preponderance of evidence”) typically follows evidence-based science, as in its rejection of vaccines-cause-autism claims. One wonders if such cases will now be rubber-stamped as valid in the E.U., since a number of parents “consistently” make such claims even though the alleged connection has been thoroughly debunked.
*a defect in the linked article is that it suggests certain upper extremity injuries were due to vaccines, when they apparently were caused by improper injection techniques damaging joint capsules/nerves and thus were not due to the vaccines themselves.
THere was a recent article about the pushback on vaccination by various state governments and I made the mistke of reading the Facebook based comments.
I learned:
vaccines do nothing except kill and cause autism
No one has ever studied the safety of vaccines, ever
Measles can be cure with Vitamin C
They all have an anecdote about how the school their kid went to had an outbreak of a vaccinatable disease and all the kids with the vaccination got the disease and the unvaccinated ones didn’t catch it.