I'm gonna rant on HPV, thanks for the opportunity.
Boys are the ones who spread HPV. If society needs to be spared from HPV, jack them with needles, too, or it won't be effective. But then how many parents (or insurance plans!) are going to pay $250 a pop to vaccinate boys to keep them POSSIBLY from spreading a disease that only SOMETIMES manifests itself in SOME girls 20 years after the fact? The vaccine makers surely appreciated the sales when they sold the shot but they won't even be around by the time it can be deemed effective or not.
I am so relieved that our legislature defeated a measure that would have required this poison to be injected into all junior high school aged girls. Texas lawmakers are pretty stupid as a group but even they saw the flawed logic of mandating another shot for pretty much the sole benefit of pharmaceutical companies.
I don't necessarily subscribe to your friend's logic about infertility, but the money isn't going to DAN doctors or Autism Speaks, it's going to pharma makers. All vaccine "research" or lack thereof and the subsequent policy outcomes are manipulated so they do not interfere with that revenue stream.
@ Colleen-- do you think someone whose endowed chair is funded by Burroughs Wellcome is unbiased? Those results were in the can before the data was even taken. It ought to help them talk a few British pediatric neurologists into prescribing the new psychoactive substance they're releasing on the heels of this paper. "There are no environmental toxins, but prescribing these new ones we've concocted is perfectly safe..." Yeah, right.
Wakefield is right. And there isn't a safe level of mercury in anything.
Our public health service is morally bankrupt having been asleep at the switch while two thirds of our population has become overweight or obese and our infants' brains twisted by vaccines. They're just unsuccessfully covering their backsides and collective incompetence with their blanket condemnation of Wakefield. I don't believe anything from NIH, CDC or any health department anywhere.
Our second child has never been injected with anything.
For the moderators to deny the environmental causes of autism and denigrate the effectiveness or desirability of therapies in a semi official forum is disturbing.
What was one of our mantras during the election? HOPE. If you don't hope for effective therapy, please go back to what you were doing. If you don't hope that our government will come clean about vaccines as the only tool of public health policy, please continue to regurgitate Eli Lilly press releases. I'm not here to support the status quo, which our moderators appear to in this piece, I'm here for our second mantra, CHANGE.
You will find that experienced parents of spectrum kids are able to cite studies and argue every point of the science discussed. While intended to stir passionate discourse, at which it succeeded, this piece also points out that the moderators need to up their game if they are to be effective in a national forum about which very much will be said.
How about demilitarizing Latin America? Close down the "School of the Americas" at Fort Bragg and stop training death squads. We definitely shouldn't subsidize governments like Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala in oppressing their own people. To me, this is much more important than closing Guantanamo.