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[Ragnar4]

yeah she's still pretty hot, but i do want to kick her in the face for the whole autism/vaccinations thing.

umm.....why?

Are you joking?

The New York Times found out that Andrew Wakefield, the scientist that first made this claim that vaccines could lead to autism, had falsified his data and had massive conflicts of interest. A special court threw out three of the cases against vaccinations. There have been a decade's worth of research that have not found a link between vaccinations and autism. But Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carry make a fucking website loaded with misstated facts and blatant lies saying that there is a link between the two. Now this has real world effects. Little babies fucking die because they don't get vaccinations. Not to mention that the diseases spread more easily with less people vaccinated, which leads to more deaths. There were preventable flu and measles outbreaks that took place because people didn't get vaccinated. I'm not saying this is all Jim Carry and Jenny McCarthy's fault, I'm just saying that they should get their facts straight when people's lives could be in danger.

Yeah, you've only got 1/2 the story here.

There have been weak causal links, the problem is that he was so certain of his findings that he was willing to falsify evidence in order to push his own agenda forward.

The big problem is the timing of the manifestation of late onset autism. It seems to set in about the same time we require a set of vaccinations and shots in young children. So everyone wants to draw a causal link between the two.

Do I think that the two are related? I don't know
Am I terrified of the light behind my daughters eyes going out? yes.
Do I think it's worse that she dies from influenza than lives a life of austic torture? No clue.