President Barack Obama gets injected with a strain of autism created in a Kenyan mosque.
"The Death Of Epistemology: Anti-Vaccine Epert (And Playboy Model) Jenny McCarthy"
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The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic Is Fueled By "Education," Wealth And Privilege
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Jenny McCarthy: Poster Girl For Self-Terrorization
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"Self-Terrorization Is The National Pastime"
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The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic Is Fueled By "Education," Wealth And Privilege
http://paxonbothhouses.
Jenny McCarthy: Poster Girl For Self-Terrorization
http://paxonbothhouses.
"Self-Terrorization Is The National Pastime"
http://paxonbothhouses.
http://paxonbothhouses.
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http://paxonbothhouses.
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http://paxonbothhouses.
http://paxonbothhouses.
http://paxonbothhouses.
http://paxonbothhouses.
Jenny McCarthy: Poster Girl For Self-Terrorization
http://paxonbothhouses.
"Self-Terrorization Is The National Pastime"
http://paxonbothhouses.
http://paxonbothhouses.
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Anti-vaxxers are super unhappy with the study they funded showing no links to autism
Walter Einenkel
The amount of digital ink spent on debunking the non-existent link between autism and vaccinations is staggering. There have been studies done stacking the deck in the favor of a link that have proven that there is no link. SafeMinds is an organization "resolving the autism epidemic." Part of "resolving" this "epidemic" is funding research to prove that autism is linked to vaccinations. How is that going?Between 2003 and 2013, SafeMinds provided scientists from the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, the University of Washington, the Johnson Center for Child Health & Development and other research institutions with approximately$250,000 to conduct a long-term investigation evaluating behavioral and brain changes of baby rhesus macaques that were administered a standard course of childhood vaccines. (The National Autism Association, another organization that has questioned vaccine safety, also provided financial support for this research.) The latest paper in the multiyear project was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). In it, the researchers concluded that vaccines did not cause any brain or behavioral changes in the primates.[bold my emphasis]
Even better, these researchers also looked into older, mercury-based preservatives—not even used in vaccinations anymore—in order to put that anti-vaxxer calling card to bed.
Anti-vaccine activists have claimed that both the vaccines with thimerosal—a mercury-based antifungal and antiseptic preservative—and the MMR vaccines are linked to autism. Thimerosal was removed from most vaccines in the late 1990s. But the researchers wanted to study its potential health effects anyway.[my emphasis]
The researchers then put the monkeys together in cages to see if they exhibited any new autistic-like social behaviors, such as fear, withdrawal, rocking, self-clasping and stereotypy (repetitive behavior). They reported that the monkeys’ behaviors remained unchanged. (Another paper by some of the same researchers, published in February in Environmental Health Perspectives, assessed the learning and social behaviors of the same group of monkeys and found the vaccines did not affect their development.)
This is great news! We have checked off vaccinations on our list of culprits in this "epidemic." My guess is that SafeMinds is sending out updates to their patrons telling them that we are one step closer to discovering what's causing this epidemic.
SafeMinds, the nonprofit that funded the research, is not happy with the results. Representatives from the group say the findings contradict both an earlier pilot study and interim progress reports the organization received from the researchers.SafeMinds wants the raw data because they want to find a new boogie man inside of the vaccines since all of the other boogie men keep getting debunked. Alycia Halladay is the chief science officer of the Autism Science Foundation (and probably a part of the Jade Helm conspiracy):
The pilot study, undertaken at the University of Pittsburgh, led to two papers, both published in 2010, showing that the vaccines did in fact affect brain development in infant macaques. One paper, published in Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, looked at the development of the amygdala region of the brains of monkeys that received the complete U.S. childhood vaccine schedule from the 1990s and then underwent MRI and PET scans at 4 and 6 months of age.
Halladay commends SafeMinds for financially supporting the study, but she worries that some autism advocates may be asking the wrong questions. “I'm not saying that we need to stop funding research in the environment, because we know the environment does impact neurodevelopment,” she says. Halladay likens the challenge of disputing the claim that vaccines cause autism to “playing whack-a-mole.”These groups would be such a great joke if it weren't truly affecting the health of people all over the world.
“First, the proposed association was between the MMR vaccines and autism,” she says. “Then that was disproven. Then it was the thimerosal components in vaccines; now that has been further disproven in a carefully designed animal model study that aimed to specifically examine that question. It has also been suggested that the association is because of vaccine timing, but that too has been disproven. The target always seems to be moving, and the expectation is that scientific resources will be diverted to address each new modification of this hypothesized link.”
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