Comments by "Ōkami-san" (@mweibleii) on "Vaccine-gate" video.

  1. accordio13 Firstly, in high concentrations, Hg is poisonous and it's a neurotoxin. Children should not have high exposures of Hg. Or Pb for that matter. That said, Hg is normally found in low concentrations in: eggs, beef, rain water, soil, chicken, fish, and others.  Here's the preservative molecule that contains an element of Hg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal#mediaviewer/File:Thiomersal-Skeletal-Structure-SVG.svg Much like eggs or rainwater, there's no good evidence to form a strong cogent argument Hg in the flu vaccine causes autism. It may. I mean, it is possible. It's reasonable to test. It's reasonable to limit exposure. What Thom is doing is a violation of reason. He and other's like him are causing hysteria.  Secondly, I'm certainly more than supportive of ongoing testing and, if the company can make a dose without Hg, simply price the non Hg containing vaccine double and sell that side by side. If you do not want the Hg containing vaccine, then pay more. If you don't care, pay less.  They truth is, no one knows what's causing the increase in autism. It may be an ion, it may be pesticides, it may be long term day care during formative years, it maybe modern society and plastics, or a combination of any or all and others.
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  2. Thom is doing a disservice - probably unwittingly. There's no strong cogent argument that vaccines cause autism except for a weak cogency with African american male child if a discrete age is isolated out. More than likely this is noise. It'd be akin to cherry picking data to post-hoc a conclusion you want to prove.  I'm the very LAST person to defend the State or a Governmental regulatory agency, which are by and large packed to the rim with the least competently trained scientists and over flowing with cut-throat bureaucrats who give less care about the Public Good than they do about the Latte they ordered that day. The best American scientists have careers in private Universities or in industry. That said, again, there's no strong cogent argument that vaccines are causing autism. The evidence simply isn't there. If this leads to more parents opting out of vaccinations, then there's a good likelihood children will become the victims of diseases the likes of which we haven't seen in 3 generations. 
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  3. “A lie can get half way round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”  -- Mark Twain
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  4. beyondathought Have you read any further analysis of the actual data? As far as I have read, the full data is available for anyone to analyse. As a matter of fact, once data is published the authors agree to make the data available to anyone else for analysize. The data that supposedly was left out, wasn't really left out. It was combined for an average. It has subsequently been analyzed and appears that, with the exception of a small window in the age of male African american children, there doesn't appear to be an effect of the vaccine on population increase or decrease in autism.   Is it possible? Yes. It's possible fertilizer, day care, food coloring, shampoo, etc.... could have an effect on children becoming autistic.  You suggest that this is to save money? Why would that be the case? The company owns the patent. The company would simply pass an additional costs on to the buyer. So, no, this isn't being done to save company's money. It's be done to save the public money though. I think this scientist is possibly a crack pot, possibly seeking revenge, possibly going to sell something (book, stocks, who knows) or maybe really believes what he says. If all of these other scientists who were on the paper were aware of this falsification, why haven't they come forward? 
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  5. beyondathought http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-cdc-not-covering-evidence-vaccines-cause-autism
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  6. From link above: David Gorski at Science Based Medicine explains the reality in considerable detail, along with plenty of background on the key players. The summary is that, in 2004 a paper was published in Pediatrics, finding that children with autism were not significantly more likely to have received the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine early than those without. It is one of numerous papers making the same finding from different places and with different techniques. Now a paper has been published in a journal called Translational Neurodegeneration which says that while there was no difference in the population overall there was among African American boys. The finding is made using a very small sample using a method known to be prone to false positives by someone with no background in epidemiology but a burning hatred of vaccines. It was published in the third issue of a journal that claims to be peer reviewed but has no impact factor yet.
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  7. Essentially, if a journal doesn't have an impact factor (or a low one) it's probably publishing trash and crack pot science. 
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