>American medicine is tightly controlled by the American government. American pharma testing is generally stricter than any European or International medical boards. I’m sure if there was an international study out there the rallying cry would be “we need an American study, strict American standards”
This language the “internationally controlled safety study” sounds so reasonable, but it is intentionally misleading. They ask for international studies because they know each vaccine is rigorously studied in the US before being added to the vaccine regime. And they ask for a controlled study, knowing that a full controlled study on the specific vaccine (where it is tested singly for safety) would never happen, because it is medically irresponsible to keep vaccines (that have already been proven safe) from children.
Right now parents who keep their children unvaccinated are freeloading off the vaccinations of other children. The unvaccinated face a much lower risk of getting LIFE THREATENING DISEASES (lest we forget that measles mumps and rubella are not just the common cold or chicken pox) because vaccination rates remain high enough. But as vaccination rates drop the penumbra of protection fades, this year has already seen more measles cases in the US than anytime in the past decade. Parents talk about not risking their child’s safety by getting them vaccinated, but even if for argument’s sake we posit that there may be some connection between vaccines and the very serious neurological disorders on the Autism spectrum, getting life-threatening measles is still a much more probable result of being unvaccinated than developing a Autism spectrum disorder.
And before you attack me (and anyone else who disagrees with you) as a tool of the pharma industry or someone bent on suppressing the “real” information because of this issue. You should remember that the lead doctor in the initial study that made the GI-MMR-Autism link (a study that was of the same size and scope of the test in this article, not the international controlled study you claim to want to disprove it) is currently facing an inquiry for serious ethical and medical misconduct charges and the results of the study have been retracted. When he did his research he had accepted a large sum of his funding from a group suing the British government over the MMR vaccine, and some of the children in the study were recruited from these (biased) parties. (Additionally he took a number of medical risks with some of these children, risks that caused damage and required additional medical care to fix.)The medical journal in which the study was printed and 10 of the 12 co-authors of the paper issued a retraction of the findings of the study saying:
“We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between (the) vaccine and autism, as the data were insufficient. However the possibility of such a link was raised, and consequent events have had major implications for public health. In view of this, we consider now is the appropriate time that we should together formally retract the interpretation placed upon these findings in the paper, according to precedent”
Look Autism spectrum disorders are a serious issue, we need to stop chasing ghosts and bad science and start coming together to provide much needed funding for services that help the children (and the growing population of adults) affected.
Sorry for the long post.
