One of my friends mentioned online that her son has chicken pox. I thought that was odd given that they immunize for that, so I asked her if she didn't. She informed me, and the rest of our friends via the internet, that she had not immunized her son and the reason why. She "researched" about it and found that immunizations create autism and ADHD according to this group called Generation Rescue. And on a minor note, her family has reactions to Pertussis, which I can understand being that I also have a reaction to that particular immunization. My understanding is that she hasn't immunized for any of the major ones, because she stated that when he is two she will immunize him for the big ones like Polio.
I tried to keep an open mind and read the article she sent me to read. Their research consisted of a telephone survey of nine counties in Oregon in which they asked parents if they had immunized their children and if their kids had been diagnosed with ADHD or Autism. Their findings were that boys were 1.5 times more likely to have autism and ADHD if they were immunized and it got worse the older they got. I found several flaws with this, but the two biggest were that there is no official test for either of these "diseases" and the fact that correlation is not causation.
I also went to the website for this group who wrote the article and their entire purpose is to "educate" parents about the dangers of immunizations and other instances of toxic materials such as mercury. Sounds completely non-biased to me.
It strikes me though that most of the immunizations we receive have been around for a pretty decent amount of time and you would think that something so dangerous would have been discovered by the larger medical community by now. I would also think there are far more dangerous things to worry about with a child than the small, if any, chance he gets some disorder from an immunization.
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And guess what else? They took murcury out of all the immunizations which is what most people blamed for autism, and autism is still on the rise. And there was a very large sudden increase in autism in the 1980s that had absolutely no correlations with immunizations. Nothing there had changed. It's pretty much well-known in the scientific community that it has been proven over and over again that IMMUNIZATIONS DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM!!!!! I don't know why people still think that. I guess people are still looking for someone to blame for their child's problems.
Freddie Mercury would never hurt anyone
After I read this website I went researching for myself and found all sorts of stuff that stated exactly what Maury just said. (But according to Generation Ridiculous, there was no evidence or even studies.)
I posted that just for you Maury because I knew you would get the biggest "kick" out of it.
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