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In reply to the discussion: The Independent: Italian court rules MMR vaccine did trigger autism [View all]1monster
(11,012 posts)39. That's interesting, but remember, the Japanese as a nation eat a lot of fish...
and the mercury levels in fish are very high. The FDA has set guidelines about how often to eat tuna for example. (See the chart @ http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/tuna.asp )
Perhaps the trigger for the Japanese children is the diet?
The problem I see in the arguments that pop up regularly is that the vaccines are blamed. But it is not the vaccines themselves that are in question. It is the mercury preservative content of the vaccines that is suspect.
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The Independent: Italian court rules MMR vaccine did trigger autism [View all]
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
OP
Rebuttal in reverse chronology to the stupendously oversimplistic platitudes on that locked thread.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#1
Actually CNN, CBS, NPR in Boston, WNYC, and PBS are the sources for interviews with -
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#3
I urge you to please spend some time reading this 2012 HARVARD HEALTH PUBLICATION.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#15
Watch CNN'S interview with former CDC Chief Julie Gerberding on March 31, 2008 (post #1) .
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#74
I think the transcript is sufficient, but for a copy of the video, instructions follow.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#76
The original paper alleging a link between vaccines and autism is a proven fraud
cpwm17
Jun 2012
#21
False. This is in the weeds for me, but if you are seriously interested, examine these with care.
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2012
#129
Truthfully, posts #6 and #8 are in the weeds for me, but not for the AoA contributors, the majority
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#9
Truthfully, this subject makes me unspeakably sad and I will be stepping away for awhile. (eom)
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#63
Post #3 describes the news aggregating function by AoA from mainstream sources.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#71
You mention Japan: their vaccines have NEVER contained mercury compounds
Lydia Leftcoast
Jun 2012
#20
Changing diagnoses can only explain about half of the increased prevalence.
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#32
I have to wonder if it's something that corporations make a lot of money off of
Lydia Leftcoast
Jun 2012
#128
why did you alert on a news story from the Independent, that was a fast reaction too
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#17
Amen! I had measles and chicken pox in the same year, and the secondary infections
Lydia Leftcoast
Jun 2012
#18
Because Vaccines have been useful in the past, we are all to now blindly believe Big Pharma
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#22
Maybe there is something else in it causing the problem. How can we fix it if we live in denial?
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#26
just keep all your anti-vac friends away from my newborn granddaughter. n/t
progressivebydesign
Jun 2012
#37
That's interesting, but remember, the Japanese as a nation eat a lot of fish...
1monster
Jun 2012
#39
Who has an interest in lying? Big Pharma or parents of children who have been harmed?
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#25
There are ingredients in vaccines causing autism, denail is a republican tactic
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#34
What precisely is preventing you from becoming infected with/by various diseases?
LanternWaste
Jun 2012
#66
Just because somebody says they are left of center or a liberal doesn't mean they are smart..
snooper2
Jun 2012
#48
I blame groupthink on a massive brainwashing effort by the corporate media manufacturing consent
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#70
It is true that without vaccines there would be fewer children with autism.
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#73
why are the rates rising so fast? Have the pro toxic vaccines people been to a public school lately?
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#85
Many parents *think* they've witnessed the beginnings immediately after receiving vaccines.
Posteritatis
Jun 2012
#86
Rise in Autism proven by statistics. The rebuttle 'they didn't diagnose it' is a joke
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#96
With the millions of kids getting vaccinated every year some will be diagnosed with autism
cpwm17
Jun 2012
#99
I'm sure there were people who got vaccinated, stepped outside the doctors office
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#104
If we demand that the anti-evolutionists use reasoned, scientific thought processes to refute...
randome
Jun 2012
#89
I demand a scientific explanation for the rise in Autism- 'didn't diagnose it' is not scientific
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#97
Global warming is on the rise. Obesity is on the rise. The price of grape jelly is on the rise.
randome
Jun 2012
#101
you might be on to something- Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#124
Can you acknowledge the fact that it was not defined as a disorder
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#106
This is the same country charging seismologists with manslaughter for not predicting an earthquake
NickB79
Jun 2012
#109