Leading Doctor: Vaccines-Autism Worth Study

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more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/12/cbsnews_investigates/main4086809.shtml

(CBS) CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson wrote this story for CBSNews.com.

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Jordan King was a typical baby. His parents called him vocal and vivacious.

Then just before age 2, after a large battery of vaccinations, he simply withdrew from the world.

"The real scary thing was when I noticed he wasn't looking at us any more in the eyes," Mylinda King, Jordan's mother, said.

William Mead was a Pottery Barn baby model and met all the typical milestones. Then, also at age 2, after a set of vaccinations, William became very ill and he, too, changed forever.

At first, both sets of parents suspected hearing problems.

"The reason we had him tested for a hearing deficit was 'cause he wouldn't respond to us," Mead said. "He no longer used any of his language."

"We had him tested for deafness, it was that bad," King said. "I mean, you could slam a book on the floor and he wouldn't turn around to see what the sound was. It was like he was in this bubble of somewhere else, like he'd left the planet or something."

Doctors said it wasn’t a hearing problem … it was the brain disorder autism.

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. Actively choosing ignorance is inexcusable.

Dr. Bernadine Healy is the former head of the National Institutes of Health, and the most well-known medical voice yet to break with her colleagues on the vaccine-autism question.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Healy said the question is still open.

"I think that the public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis as irrational," Healy said.

"But public health officials have been saying they know, they've been implying to the public there's enough evidence and they know it's not causal," Attkisson said.

"I think you can't say that," Healy said. "You can't say that."

Healy goes on to say public health officials have intentionally avoided researching whether subsets of children are “susceptible” to vaccine side effects - afraid the answer will scare the public.

"You're saying that public health officials have turned their back on a viable area of research largely because they're afraid of what might be found?" Attkisson asked.

Healy said: "There is a completely expressed concern that they don't want to pursue a hypothesis because that hypothesis could be damaging to the public health community at large by scaring people. "First of all," Healy said, "I think the public’s smarter than that. The public values vaccines. But more importantly, I don’t think you should ever turn your back on any scientific hypothesis because you’re afraid of what it might show."

[BeHereNow]

2. Amen and anyone who has not experienced the horror of an ADR in a child needs to STFU!

We went through this 19 years ago.
Our daughter had an ADR within hours of a "routine"
round of infant vaccinations.
Stopped breathing and so forth.

I say, "Fuck the nay sayers on DU over this issue!!!"
Until you've lived it, you have NO right to say shit about it.

BHN

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3. More on the "leading doctor"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadine_Healy

[BeHereNow]

4. And? Your point is?

Are you insinuating that her political affiliations
invalidate her expertise as a physician?

BHN

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. I'm insinuating "argument from authority" is a stupid idea.