Comments on: What are the adverse effects of vaccines?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:40:38 +0000

You know, if it wasn’t for the herd immunity effect it might be hard to care. Well, not hard to care, but hard to bother spending the enormous amount of energy it takes to shovel through the ignorance.

By: haversham

haversham — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:29:51 +0000

I think what she’s saying is that she wants more research done to show that DTaP isn’t the cause of autism. Currently it’s the HiB vaccine that many in the anti-vaxx movement are parroting as the new cause for ASD, so it’s something of a similar argument. Vaccine whack-a-mole; you beat down one vaccine and show it’s not autism related, only to have another pop up right after. What this argument comes down to is being inherently anti-vaccine and looking for any mode of reasoning that will allow you to hold onto your belief in the face of new evidence.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:55:33 +0000

Rebecca, what is it you are suggesting was glossed over? This report is over 600 pages long, it’s quite comprehensive.

The research linking DT-TT and aP Containing Vaccines scored an “I” for autism: “Inadequate to to accept or reject a causal relationship”

So, of CS, FA, I and FR, where CS is convincing relationsip, FA is favors acceptance, I is inadequate and FR is reject relationship, DT-TT and aP got an I.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:36:12 +0000

What about an autism link to OTHER vaccines. This seems to indicate there is no link between autism and MMR, but it’s rare for a child to ONLY get the MMR vaccine and no others. Most parents don’t cite the MMR as the trigger, but the DTaP or the DTP. What about those? Where is the data showing those don’t correlate with autism diagnosis?

I’m a believer in vaccines and in science, but I’d sure like to see science addressing the questions (like they did very effectively with the MMR) instead of glossing over them.

By: Collin

Collin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:21:16 +0000

Three years ago I suffered extreme depression, confusion, etc. for a few weeks after my flu shot. That was unusual?

By: dean

dean — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:54:21 +0000

OF CouRse theY didN’t find any links. Big PHARMA and all thaT. ShillS, the Lot of theM. Oh, and al Gore is fat.

It’s not juSt vaccineS they Lie about: theY claim circumsishun is safe. Bah! I haD thaT done after I was borNed and couldn’T walk for almost A Year. ‘Splain that! (You can’t.)

/snark attempt.

At least that’s the level of discourse I expect to see popping up from the denialist world in the coming months.

By: LarianLeQuella

LarianLeQuella — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:48:43 +0000

What!? No reports of turning into The Hulk? I am sure that was one side effect listed at VAERS! I think they left off a major line of research! 😛