I guess PBS has become part of "The Conspiracy."

[Archae]

This one being the "conspiracy" to cover up vaccines causing autism.

Even though all the credible evidence says vaccines do NOT cause autism.

PBS' "Frontline" showed both sides.

And the vaccines=autism side end up looking like crooks, (Andrew Wakefield,) and hysterical rumor-mongers.

[longship]

1. Wakefield - a fraud and a liar

Anybody defending Wakefield is giving comfort to an unethical doctor who used his position to unethically put forth some shitty research paper, which has been totally discredited, solely for personal gain.

He had a patent on a vaccine in competition with the MMR vaccine. If he could discredit the MMR, he stood to personally gain tremendously. Furthermore, his MMR study was unethical, violating the physician/patient standards of care.

The guy is a dispicible person who was correctly struck off the roles in the UK; lost his license to practice medicine.

So now he sits in his office in TX, sniping about all vaccines and making claims, none of which have any basis in fact. And enabling idiots, like fucking Jenny McCarthy who, other than being a Playboy Playmate and then picking her boogers on MTV, would have faded into obscurity. Yes, we believe you Jenny, your now autistic offspring (you used to claim he was an exceptional child --- Ooo! An Indigo Child, gifted with all sorts of psychic talents) was harmed by a vaccine which ALL the epidemiological evidence says has no relation to autism.

Meanwhile children are dying from the very diseases that these vaccines prevent because unless we vaccinate, these diseases can still take their toll.

Fuck the anti-vaxers. Fuck them all.

[Javaman]

2. +1000 nt

[SidDithers]

3. Well said...nt

Sid

[Swede]

7. Anti vaccine folks are dangerous,IMO

nt

[mnmoderatedem]

8. worse yet

there have been quite a few deaths of children who contracted measles and ended up dying as a result, because their parents bought into the paranoia of the MMR vaccine and autism. All so friggen unnecessary. All because a team of lawyers decided they wanted to sue the vaccine makers and had this numnuts publish some "study" linking the vaccine to autism, and the periodical which published said "study" readily admts it came from one source and was never corroborated by any peer reviewed studies of any kind. Wakefield, the lawyers, the publishers of quackery. Many villians in play here.

Those childrens' deaths are on their heads....

[Motown_Johnny]

4. I haven't seen it yet but I plan on catching it as soon as I can

Thanks for posting.

[Odin2005]

5. K&R

[hifiguy]

6. The anti-vaxers are nuts. And I mean nuts.

All of the best science on autism spectrum conditions suggests that those of us on the spectrum (I am dx'd Asperger's) have different hard-wiring in our brains and were born the way we are. Idjits.

[Archae]

9. Exactly.

My parents got all their shots.

My sisters and I got all their shots.

The 7 grandkids got all their shots.

The 7 great-grandkids got all their shots.

Not a single autism case in the bunch.

Luck? I think it's more genetics.

[Taverner]

10. Yep