Rabies vacs vs. waiver?

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by ISUKappa
While I do agree more research needs to be done, and it is better to have mercury-free vaccinations, it is not possible to claim that vaccinations (specifically the MMR vax) causes Autism in children, especially since the study that first brought up the connection was highly flawed and used a ridiculously small sample of children.

It's also not possible yet to rule it out yet, and a great deal of the circumstantial evidence does raise questions. Anecdotal without a doubt, but I know too many parents and doctors who can pinpoint a change in children to the time of vaccines. As blueangel said, the jury is still out.

As the parent of an ASD kid, I tend to think that lots of factors are going into the rise in ASDs -- vaccines may be one, and I (with admittedly little scientific evidence to go on) have suspicions about the rise in ASDs as compared to the introduction and increase of high fructose corn syrup and other artificial ingredients in foods. And while I think part of the rise in ASDs is due to better and earlier diagnoses, one has to wonder why the rate in the US is so much higher than in other western countries.

From what our doctors tell us, it may be less that vaccines "cause" autism, and more that some kids are particularly sensitive to certain things, such as the mercury in vaccines, and for those kids, it triggers a problem.

I'm doing a lot of research into vaccinations right now as my son is due for his first round next week and we're not sure we want to give them yet.

Good luck!

Originally posted by blueangel
Why does everything here always have to be an argument?!!!

Seemed like more of a discussion than an argument to me.

I also buy the majority of my foods from Whole Foods because I don't want chicken shot up with anti-biotics, nor do I want bovine hormone in my milk.

We but a lot at Whole Paycheck, too. But don't fool yourself into thinking that just because it's sold there, it's completely healthy or untainted.

So, go ahead.. be my guest... have all the mercury you want in your system. Put your head in the sand and convince yourself that everything is hunky dorie because the government wouldn't dare let anything harmful out there. (Hmmm... Vioxx? Phen Phen?)

Eat those hydrogenized oils... and all that poison that the government allows. Smoke those cigarrettes. It's your body, be my guest.. kill yourself slowly if you wish.

You said it yourself -- the jury is still out on vaccines and autism. So why would you assume that someone who questions whether there is a connection has their head in the sand and cares nothing about their own health?