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In reply to the discussion: CDC Statistics Show What Happens When You Don't Vaccinate [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Also, to date there has been no "proof" at all that autism was not caused by the thimerosal containing vaccines.
The study that pruported to do that was flawed in its methodology. It compared the data taken from the health records of a group of babies and children who had been vaccinated with the mercury-containing vaccines, to the data from health records of babies and children who had been vaccinated with vaccines free of thimerosal but where formaldehyde was in its place! So of course, both groups would have roughly the same number of affected-with-autism babies and children. (Formaldehyde ranks only slightly lower than mercury on a list of deadly toxins.)
Yet the headlines from this study are what most vaccine defenders point to when they start saying it has been proven that autism is not caused by vaccines!
Oh, and earlier this year, doctors at the Children's Hospital connected with Stanford Univ. Hospital, reported multiple instances of a disease that resembled polio. I had to wonder if this "mystery" disease afflicting these children was not in fact Guillaume Barre Syndrome, and that it occurred in children who had been vaccinated two or three weeks before the "mystery" ailment showed up in their bodies.