April is Autism Awareness Month

[sigh]

And the numbers keep going up. What's going on?

 

[RoryN]

Yeah. April. 15 commercial airline crashes happened in April. `course, Wapner was born in April...

 

[sigh]

Yeah. April. 15 commercial airline crashes happened in April. `course, Wapner was born in April...

that explains it then

thanks

 

[bra_man69]

Yeah. April. 15 commercial airline crashes happened in April. `course, Wapner was born in April...

To bad we couldn't put you on a plane on the 15th that we know would crash.

I think it might have something to do with the shots kids take.

 

[mercury14]

Greater awareness among healthcare providers + broadening the diagnosis to include more people.

 

[eyer]

The rate of autism among American children has nearly doubled over the past decade, according to a new report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), jumping from about one in 150 children back in 2000 to about one in 88 children in 2008, which is the last time official estimates were calculated. And interestingly, this steady rise in autism rates coincides directly with CDC-endorsed vaccination schedules that have also risen sharply since the 1980s.

Back in 1983, for example, the CDC recommended only ten vaccines for children from birth through six years old (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/images/schedule1983s.jpg). Today, that number has risen significantly to 29 vaccines and counting, many of which are now administered all at one time or in combinations like the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine (http://www.cdc.gov).

And yet the mainstream medical system and its allies in the government and media are willfully ignoring this glaring fact, blaming “unknown” causes and “genetics” for causing autism, which are the two most common catch-all scapegoats. And in explaining the drastic rise in autism rates over the years, the talking heads actually claim that there is no rise — the seemingly elevated autism rates are merely the result of improved autism screening methods that are now identifying more cases.

http://www.infowars.com/78-percent-...ade-coincides-with-new-vaccination-schedules/

And don't forget to keep shoveling antibiotics down your little ones' throats everybody...

 

[mercury14]

So you're saying correlation equals causation.

 

[mercury14]

(You probably don't care, but the one piece of research linking autism and vaccines was found to be fraudulent)

 

[eyer]

So you're saying correlation equals causation.

I'm pretty sure I said reading your sh!t is hell on earth...

 

[eyer]

(Of course it was...

...and you're exactly right.)

 

[mercury14]

I'm pretty sure I said reading your sh!t is hell on earth...

God forbid you should be held accountable for your quackery.

 

[mercury14]

(Of course it was...

...and you're exactly right.)

http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c7452.full

 

[eyer]

God forbid you should be held accountable for your quackery.

Some higher power is going to have to give a quack like you a hellacious raise...

...before you can even begin to learn about holding me accountable, bozo.

 

[mercury14]

Some higher power is going to have to give a quack like you a hellacious raise...

...before you can even begin to learn about holding me accountable, bozo.

Do you think vaccines are causing autism?

 

[eyer]

This article has a correction
Please see: Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent

The BMJ should have declared competing interests in relation to this editorial by Fiona Godlee and colleagues (BMJ 2011;342:c7452, doi:10.1136/bmj.c7452). The BMJ Group receives advertising and sponsorship revenue from vaccine manufacturers, and specifically from Merck and GSK, which both manufacture MMR vaccines. For further information see the rapid response from Godlee (www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1335.full/reply#bmj_el_251470). The same omission also affected two related Editor’s Choice articles (BMJ 2011;342:d22 and BMJ 2011;342:d378).

If you walk like a duck, quack...

 

[eyer]

Do you think vaccines are causing autism?

Nah...

...that'd be like thinking flu vaccines actually cause flu.

What idiot would think something so foolish as that?

 

[CHNOPS]

Nah...

...that'd be like thinking flu vaccines actually cause flu.

What idiot would think something so foolish as that?

Or that communism killed the Roanoke settlers!

 

[Phelia]

Well this devolved into utter codswallop in record time.

Mirror neurons are cool. I wish I were still in touch with my friend who was researching them for his grad program, but things got awkward after we were accidentally attracted to each other for years and then had sex. We had fun!

 

[eyer]

Or that communism killed the Roanoke settlers!

Dr. Quack Mcmercury has you scheduled for Thursday...

...when he'll probe you rectally to ascertain where that delusion sprouts from.

 

[mercury14]

This article has a correction
Please see: Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent



If you walk like a duck, quack...

The Lancet, which is thrall to no vaccine company, retracted Wakefield's article because it was fraudulent

The Lancet retracts Andrew Wakefield’s article
Published by Steven Novella under Science and Medicine
Comments: 29

In 1998 Andrew Wakefield and 11 other co-authors published a study with the unremarkable title: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. Such a title would hardly grab a science journalist’s attention, but the small study sparked widespread hysteria about a possible connection between the mumps-measles-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

The study itself has not stood the test of time. The results could not be replicated by other labs. A decade of subsequent research has sufficiently cleared the MMR vaccine of any connection to ASD. The lab used to search for measles virus in the guts of the study subjects has been shown to have used flawed techniques, resulting in false positives (from the Autism Omnibus testimony, and here is a quick summary). There does not appear to be any association between autism and a GI disorder.

But it’s OK to be wrong in science. There is no expectation that every potential finding will turn out to be true – in fact it is expected that most new finding will eventually be found to be false. That’s the nature of investigating the unknown. No harm no foul.

Andrew Wakefield, however, was apparently guilty of more than just getting it wrong, or even of being a sloppy scientist. He has been the subject of an ethics investigation by the General Medical Council who recently concluded that:

The General Medical Council ruled he had acted “dishonestly and irresponsibly” in doing his research.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/lancet-retracts-wakefield-article/.


Wakefield also lost his medical license over this research and is making a living flipping burgers somewhere.

 

[CHNOPS]

Dr. Quack Mcmercury has you scheduled for Thursday...

...when he'll probe you rectally to ascertain where that delusion sprouts from.

It came from some idiot on the internet.

 

[bra_man69]

Lol

 

[eyer]

It came from some idiot on the internet.

You're exactly right: the delusion is of "some idiot on the internet"...

...but you posted a link to a piece that mentions nothing of what the idiot maintains.

Here...

...allow me to re-reference you to the idiot:

Or that communism killed the Roanoke settlers!

 

[CHNOPS]

A pretzel!

 

[eyer]

A pretzel!

And you even salt your own...

...Good job! (It's too easy posing as disingenuous you.)

It's a shame Marx invented the word "communism" and there isn't any Latin root connection of that word to the political theme of the great piece you linked to...