Why is one considered anti-vaccine if you want to follow up on your child's vaccine reaction? Why is one considered anti-vaccine if you wonder why your doctor didn't report the reaction? Why is one considered anti-vaccine when you followed the recommended schedule? How is medicine supposed to advance if we aren't allowed to ask questions? Nobody studied my kid so how do they know there is no correlation with vaccines and his autism. They don't know. I followed the rules and something happened. I left the mainstream because there was no investigation. Autism a new problem that stumped my pediatricians. Since they don't know, why can we not turn over every stone even if it means we might find answers we don't want to face. Mommies don't just accept a child stopping talking. They want to find out what happened. Mommies search and can only breathe if their child is ok. I was told by one pediatrician in the 4th largest city in America "some things just don't have easy answers." I thought I was safe in America. When something happens a proper investigation should be conducted. I left the second pediatrician with my sick babies and recovered them at home. Not because I'm anti-vaccine, only because a mommy will look in all directions if it means her baby will look at her again. A mommy has to save her baby. She doesn't care where the information is coming from. She doesn't fear uncovering her own part in all of this. She just searches for answers.

What is most troubling to me is that gov't agencies have little to no involvement in my children's recovery. Rather a large and visible push is geared towards proving that I'm anti-vaccine. I would trust the "experts" and their "science" much more if I saw that they were actually investigating what was happening. We have the resources in this country to study the vaccinated vs non vaccinated populations.

While I believe that Paul Offit has good intentions for children, a huge red flag goes up for me when I'm considered anti-vaccine because I want to follow up on my childrens' high fevers, rashes, and immune problems. I'm supposed to turn off my brain and file into special ed with the rest of the population. Wait around for genetic testing?? If it's genes why didn't I develop autism or my husband? What in the enviornment combined with genetic expression is causing the tidal wave of neurological damage we see today.

When my pediatrician says things like it's toddeler diahrea and diet doesn't matter....we have a huge problem in this country. I'm supposed to trust a team of "experts" who don't even do a proper investigation when my son stops talking? No blood work....just go get speech and OT.

I came across this article. http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/04/30/medical-providers-urged-to-take-strong-stand-on-vaccine-safety

I guess he was making the rounds last week speaking at various conferences in the Northwest.

"Offit and Dr. Lance Rodevald, a pediatrician and director of the Immunization Services Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, stopped in Yakima after attending other national conferences in this part of the country. Invited by the Yakima Health District, their visit coincided with National Infant Immunization Week. Their talk was broadcast to 18 other locations in Washington and Oregon."

Check out the second picture with the article. It's Offit with a big sign behind him that reads, "Celebrate National Infant Immunization Week".

Kristina, your comments made me laugh so hard! I was all geared up to search for that photo of a topless Offit holding an innocent baby and then, you posted again that it was a clothed Offit! How creepy though! I hope I don't have nightmares about it tonight! ;) Hehehehehe!

Seriously, that man sickens me too....it's quite chilling how he talks and tries to look so sincere. My family comes from the former Soviet Union and they used to tell me horror stories of propaganda and all the corruption. I remember always feeling so lucky to be here in this honest country. We are "the good guys," I thought. This is still the best country in the world, but my comment just illustrates what we here at AoA know and the rest of the country doesn't get: there is a huge propaganda machine here as well and an abundance of corruption.

Oh, some of you might not remember but the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) gave $300,000 to fund a marketing and research campaign on public perceptions of vaccine safety. They gave the money to Banyan Communications, one of Don Holzworth's companies.

"When asked to give an example of where they would collect data and opinions, the lead marketing woman cited “Wired” magazine. "

http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/12/300k-to-banyan-communications-from-advisory-commission-on-childhood-vaccines/comments/page/3/#comments

I just did a search for that Offit baby photo, and it turns out my memory made it worse than it was, lol. Offit is clothed in the photo. It's still gross though. Funny how memory works.

Not knowing where else to put this on a Sunday evening, here is some info from a meeting of the PAS -- the Pediatric Academic Societies.

The PAS consists of four separate pediatric organizations. Those are: the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Academic Pediatric Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The information below is about a session at that meeting. The study was funded by "Autism Speaks":

[2320.7] GI Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): An Autism Treatment Network Study

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of GI symptoms in children and adolescents with ASD is uncertain, with studies reporting conflicting results.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of GI symptoms as reported by parents in a large ASD registry, and to identify factors associated with GI symptoms in children with ASD.

RESULTS: GI symptom data were available for 1185 children.

Overall, 45% of children were reported to have GI symptoms at time of enrollment.

Of GI complaints that occurred within the 3 months prior to enrollment, abdominal pain was most common (59%) followed by constipation (51%), diarrhea (43%), other (40%), nausea (31%) and bloating (26%).

Reports of GI symptoms increased with age, ranging from 39% in those under 5 years to 51% in those 7 years and older (p

Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010
Poster Symposium Session: Autism

We get it, Poul, good science, even if it's shit quality (Fombonne's, Thorsens etc.) is good because it exhonerates vaccines. Hewitson's, Wakefield's is bad simply because it really looks at vaccines. It's all so blessedly simple.
Honestly,Paul, how do you sleep at night, knowing that you are hurting hundreds of thousands of children/babies. Oh yeah, but they're just "percentages."

Ah well, all is clear now, that explains why he doesn't actually see sick children, his real job is propaganda and doctoring of the truth. As we say in French "On ne peut être à la fois au four et au moulin", you can't be at once at the mill and at the oven.