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In reply to the discussion: Does fetal tissue in vaccines cause autism? [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)QUOTE proved UnQUOTE that vaccines do not cause autism?
One study looked at data regarding children and vaccines, from the era when vaccines contained mercury. The second group of data came from children who were infants and/or kids who had been vaccinated with vaccine material in which formaldehyde was substituted for the mercury.
Although formaldehyde is slightly slightly less toxic than mercury, it is still very toxic. Especially when induced into the bodies of infants and children. This study is like if you had a group of kids who drinking water contained kerosene and then you replaced the kerosene with gasoline that was a bit more diluted than the kerosene found in the first aquifers. The design of the study was indeed flawed.
So that study needs to be disregarded, because what we needed and deserved was a study in which infants and children's data came from a group where there was mercury in the vaccines versus a group that had not been vaccinated.
The second study was not really a study at all. It simply took the great numbers of studies out there that QUOTE prove UnQUOTE that vaccines do not cause autism and then counted up the number of studies that show there are indications that vaccines could be a suspect in the cause of autism.
Of course, the first group of studies outnumbered the second, as the indie researchers have no where near the amounts of funding.
If this is how the state of California had looked at the issue of MTBE's risk or safety, we would still have that toxin n our gasoline, destroying our health, our water and our air. There were thousands of studies showing that MTBE was fine. Meanwhile there were only TWO accredited studies that showed it is a poison. However those two were correct. While the other "thousands of studies" were bogus.