The CDC just came out with new study. Autism rate is double the rate previously thought.
Carol Maloney introduced in 2006 and again in 2009 a bill to compare autism rates on fully vaccinated and fully unvaccinated kids. This time it may go through.
Two of my favorite quotes apply to this topic:
Oh! let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about!.
Hilaire Belloc
and
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. Chesterton
I believe the purpose of the study is to see if current process or schedule of vaccines (as opposed to any individual vaccine) may cause Autism. The vaccine process has enlarged tremendously over the past 30 years. More shots. More early vaccines. More compound shots. Greater quantity of antigens. Stronger adjuvants stimulating immune system.
This is why you test the process.
The studies done up till now have one thing in common, they never tested fully unvaccinated kids. Rather, the studies only tested a variant of the current vaccine schedule (such as removing, delaying, altering 1 or 2 of the vaccines).
There seems to be an irrational fear against doing this broad study.
The current US childhood immunization schedule calls for 28 injections with 11 different vaccines against 15 different diseases by two years of age. And, a total of 48 doses of vaccines before the age of six. It is immense. Of the many vaccinations, only the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) shot has been studied. And, of the many ingredients, only thimerosal has ever been tested in association with autism. Moreover, scheduling issues have never been studied
Here are some links to bring you up to speed.
Carol Maloney's 2006 proposed bill:
http://maloney.house.gov/...
Carol Maloney's 2009 proposed bill:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Recent CDC Report as reported by ABC:
http://abcnews.go.com/...
Some articles on Huffington Post worth reading:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
I have advocated this study for some years on this board. You can see my prior posts and comments here.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
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As to cost of study ($4 to $20 Million - per Maloney 2009 proposed bill), please note that estimated life-time cost of one autistic child is $16 Million. "According to background information in the study, the life-time healthcare costs for a person with autism are estimated to be more than $16 million." http://www.medscape.com/...
I leave you with this note from the former head of NIH
Dr. Bernadine Healy is the former head of the National Institutes of Health, and the most well-known medical voice yet to break with her colleagues on the vaccine-autism question.
In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Healy said the question is still open.
"I think that the public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis as irrational," Healy said. "But public health officials have been saying they know, they've been implying to the public there's enough evidence and they know it's not causal," Attkisson said. "I think you can't say that," Healy said. "You can't say that."
http://www.cbsnews.com/...