Autism One: The yearly anti-vaccine quackfest begins

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CRedd wrote:

What is making our children so sick?
Young girls are given the Gardasil vaccine and develop seizures, strokes and partial paralysis.
Maybe this video says something worth thinking about. "The Greater Good":
www.greatergoodmovie.org

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CRedd wrote:

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Each one of the 8,000 cases in the survey is supported by medical documentation. The purpose of the movie "The Greater Good" is to explore ways to achieve safe and effective vaccination programs.
To see the FDA's Report of Adverse Events associated with Gardasil see:
www.judicialwatch.org/gardasil

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Mark wrote:

http://theness.com/neurologica blog/index.php/when-science-fa ils-bully/
When Science Fails – Bully
There seems to be no end to the questionable tactics of CAM promoters. The one thing they do not have on their side is the science. Two decades ago, when they really started clamoring for legitimacy, their frequent cry was that all they wanted was a fair chance to prove that their modalities worked. They claimed that treatments like acupuncture and homeopathy were simply not studied, and once they were properly studied the world would see how effective they were.
Now, two decades and billions of research dollars later (mostly through the NCCAM) the evidence is increasingly clear – these modalities are alternative for a reason, they don’t work. Those clinical trials that are well controlled an rigorously designed demonstrate that acupuncture, homeopathy, reiki, and similar methods do not work any better than placebo. They are physiologically inert.
If proponents were intellectually honest, they would have simply admitted this and moved on. But CAM proponents use scientific evidence (to borrow an excellent metaphor) as a drunkard uses a lamppost, for support rather than illumination.
The more negative evidence comes in, the more desperately they try to distract from this fact. So they misrepresent the evidence, cherry pick the positive data, advocate for unblinded “pragmatic studies”, confuse placebo effects with specific effects of their intervention, and still maintain that “Western” science cannot penetrate their arcane modalities. It’s all smoke and mirrors, meant to deceive.

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CRedd wrote:

Dr. Wakefield has been proven innocent of charges made against him by Brian Deer and the BMJ:
www.gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2011-11-10/bria...

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friend wrote:

Mr. Wakefield is a scammer and a fraud. He was proven guilty, never appealed and is still guilty. He even admitted to some of the fraud in interviews and recorded conferences. He did himself in with his own big bragging mouth. Nice doctor. He can no longer practice medicine in any country and certainly not in the United States where he presently resides. The only ones who think he's innocent are die hard anti vaxxers.
For all the effort spent on that has-been, washed up man, think of where that energy could be spent better.