Dachel Media Review: Vax, Vax, Vax
By Anne Dachel
Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump.
Feb 12, 2014, Des Moines Register: Harkin seeks law to end seclusion in schools
Feb 12, 2014, Marshfield (WI) News Herald: Flu dangers not over so get your shot
Feb 12, 2014, Dothan (AL) Eagle: New support group hopes to bring awareness to needs of adults with autism
Feb 12, 2014, USA Today: Vaccines reduce risk of strokes in children
Iowa Democrat's legislation would also limit use of restraint techniques to emergencies
Teachers in U.S. schools would no longer be allowed to place children in unsupervised seclusion for any reason under a bill filed Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin.
Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, pointed out that schools are the last public institutions where seclusion is allowed for nonemergency situations. Seclusion isn’t allowed in prisons, jails, nursing homes, group homes or psychiatric facilities, except in emergencies.
“We have to put an end to it across our country,” Harkin said during a news conference in Washington, D.C. “It’s overdue.”
Here's another example of how autism has changed education. Who determines what "emergency situations" are? Would a child having a meltdown in a lunch line be considered an emergency situation?
Vaccines are our single best method to stave off preventable diseases. Western medicine has been successful at dramatically decreasing deaths from many illnesses in the general population, including measles, mumps, diphtheria, smallpox and polio. These diseases previously caused the deaths of tens of thousands. . . .
These are valid concerns, to a point. A few people do have a reaction to the vaccine and might have a brief fever or rash. Others are allergic to certain components of the vaccine and should not get the flu shot. However, nearly everyone who receives the vaccine experiences no adverse reaction. The claim that vaccines cause autism in children is simply untrue, the result of a dishonest scientist and our inability to put this genie of a lie back in the bottle.
These blanket claims about no link to autism and no serious side effects are the real junk science. I posted six comments. Links are working.
As mothers, they know all too well the trials and difficulties that come with rearing a child with autism. . . .
They also know those difficulties do not end when their children finish high school. In fact, bigger hurdles await them and their children as the transition to adulthood begins. But, they are not content to sit idly by. No, they want to make a difference, to bring about change - and they want to begin that process now.
For years, news stories talked about awareness and support for the ever-increasing number of children with autism. There were never demands to why these children were suddenly showing up everywhere. Now they beginning to age into adulthood--another new population. These mothers can't look to what's been done for autistic adults in the past because there hasn't been a significant number of adults with autism. That simple fact should have everyone's attention as more and more of these stories appear in the news. Sadly, it never does.
Kids who were unvaccinated or undervaccinated were almost seven times as likely as others to have a stroke, a new study finds.
A new international study finds another benefit to childhood vaccines: preventing strokes.
Pediatric strokes are rare, affecting about five out of every 100,000, for about 5,000 pediatric strokes a year in the USA, says co-author Heather Fullerton, a professor of neurology and pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. About half of these strokes are caused by blood clots, the focus of her study.
Liz Szabo has been denying vaccines cause autism for years. This was a study of unvaccinated/under-vaccinated children? They can look for strokes and refuse to look for the autism rate???
I posted this comment:
It's amazing that researchers managed to find a significant population of unvaccinated and under vaccinated children for a study on a rare condition like childhood strokes.
It's especially interesting that a study was done on something as uncommon as strokes, yet when parents have asked for a study of unvaccinated children
to see if their autism rate was the same as fully vaccinated children, officials have said that it would be too difficult to find a significant unvaccinated population to conduct such a study. Autism is not rare. It affects two percent of children, yet no one is willing to look the autism rate in unvaccinated children.
More statistical "magic." What a bunch of crap!
Posted by: Jen | February 14, 2014 at 02:18 PM
Thanks John, I will read it. Sorry about all my typos, old computer, sticky keys - I really can spel(blush)
Posted by: SarahW | February 14, 2014 at 01:46 PM
Hi Sarah,
You might like my old article 'Paul Offit and the Milgram Experiment:
http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/10/best-of-age-of-autism-paul-offit-and-the-milgram-experiment.html
John
Posted by: John Stone | February 14, 2014 at 01:22 PM
"flu seasons no over so get you shot" now they've taken to ordering us- like we shall obey or else. I was watching an intersting story last night about a rather sadistic experiment conducted in 1963 by a Yale pyschologist called the Milgram experiment. The study was on obedience- how well people would follow orders not matter how inhumane.
The experiment was set up so that a volunteer test subject (subject 1) was commanded to give a shock to another subject whom he could not see only hear upon answering a series of question. The shock was administered if subject by subject 1 if subject 2 got the answer to the question wrong. During the experiment the intensity of the shock was increased into a range of excruciating pain. Subject 1 could only hear the desperate cries of subject 2 as the shock intensity was increased. During the experiment some Subject 1 volunteers dropped out of the experiemtn because they could not bear torturing another human being. About 65% of the other subject 1 volunteers continued shocking subject 2 as instructed.
At the end the volunteers who administrered the shocks learned the other subjects were actors and the whole experiment was as a test on obedience to see how many people would actually obey commands no matter the harm it did to others.
It reminds me of the US Immunization campaign. So many obedient little foot soldiers following the command of their overlords, Big Pharma, and never questioning the harm this is causing to a generation of children. These sheeple are the 65% who will obey no matter what.
More about the Milgram Experiment at Yale:
watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqr5-dWk6Gw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTX42lVDwA4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Posted by: SarahW | February 14, 2014 at 01:11 PM
Roger,
I don't think you're missing anything. Thinking about this again this morning, I realized that the stroke victims were unvaccinated or UNDERVACCINATED. Let's see a show of hands here of those whose children are undervaccinated. And why are they undervaccinated? Because the vaccinations made the children sick. Some in the medical community deny the connection, as we know too well. So, if they did a study of children with autism, they could conclude that vaccinations prevent autism. That's right. Because they'll find that children with autism are also undervaccinated. I have to say again that I haven't seen the study, but until I do, I suspect this is research and an article from the scam a day club.
Posted by: Linda | February 14, 2014 at 10:37 AM
I had a at least a couple of strokes as a child and teenager with no outside trigger.I was also diagnosed with autism around the time of Noah.I fail to see where a stroke triggered by a vaccine would be anything but a sign of an undiagnosed underlying condition.The ones I can think of being congenital heart and vascular disease,blood clotting disorders.
http://www.chla.org/site/c.ipINKTOAJsG/b.7714619/k.3954/Genetic_Clotting_Disorders__Blood_Clot__Veins__Arteries.htm#.Uv4r-emPLIU
Or metabolic ones.Either mitochondrial disease,like MELAS,or diseases involving folate metabolism,MTHFR mutations,with very high homocysteine and anemia,like I have.
In these cases you are always at risk for strokes,vaccine or no vaccine,and you probably should not be vaccinated in the first place.But this article makes little sense.There is no mention of underlying medical problems.I am probably missing something here.Anybody care to fill me in?
Posted by: Roger Kulp | February 14, 2014 at 10:06 AM
I first met an autistic child - the 7-year-old daughter of close friends - back in 1979. I had never heard of the condition before, much less witnessed it. Parents in those days had only "A Child Called Noah" to refer to, and my friends told me that the austism rate was one in 20,000.
Ironically, 1 in 20,000 is the pediatric stroke incidence that the researchers referenced in USA today seem so concerned with. Disgusting.
Posted by: Rae | February 14, 2014 at 01:45 AM
Pediatric strokes are caused by vaccines.
At least that is what I noticed.
They cause swelling of the heart too -- found that one out too.
Hard to believe this bunch of bull %%%%
Posted by: Benedetta | February 14, 2014 at 01:21 AM
http://cornellsun.com/blog/2014/02/12/autism-rights-activist-urges-students-to-recognize-neurodiversity/
Posted by: Roger Kulp | February 14, 2014 at 01:16 AM
The USA Today article is just bizarre. The story reports on a study of 300 children with an extremely rare disorder; it has not been peer-reviewed or published; and it compared kids who'd received "some, few or no vaccines" with kids who'd received "most or all of their recommended shots." The study included children in the developing world (they don't say how many of them), so what are their "recommended shot?" It wouldn't be the same schedule as the U.S., so the study could easily be comparing kids in the U.S. who received 4 vaccines (some or few) with kids in Africa who received 4 vaccines (most or all of their recommended shots). Then the article implies that the correlation equals causation - suggesting the conclusion that vaccines prevent pediatric strokes.
The only thing this article told me is the PR Machine is in full swing.
Posted by: PANDAS Mom | February 14, 2014 at 12:02 AM
The USA Today article is just bizarre. The story reports on a study of 300 children with an extremely rare disorder; it has not been peer-reviewed or published; and it compared kids who'd received "some, few or no vaccines" with kids who'd received "most or all of their recommended shots." The study included children in the developing world (they don't say how many of them), so what are their "recommended shot?" It wouldn't be the same schedule as the U.S., so the study could easily be comparing kids in the U.S. who received 4 vaccines (some or few) with kids in Africa who received 4 vaccines (most or all of their recommended shots). Then the article implies what many anti-choicers are always screaming about - that correlation equals causation - suggesting the conclusion that vaccines prevent pediatric strokes.
The only thing this article told me is the PR Machine is in full swing.
Posted by: PANDAS Mom | February 13, 2014 at 09:25 PM
Re USA Today:
Am I reading this right? The study was done by interviewing 310 parents of children who did have a stroke and 289 parents of children who didn't have a stoke? In 40 centers in developing countries? That's the study? Only the abstract was presented? The journalist didn't see the actual paper before publishing this article saying that vaccination prevents stroke in children?
Readers are led to believe that all healthy children are equally vulnerable to having a stroke. Without seeing the actual study it's hard to judge, but it seems like there were too few children to draw any conclusions, and I wonder if the children that had the strokes weren't vaccinated because they were sick to begin with. Meanwhile, the Cleveland Clinic's page on pediatric stroke lists the conditions that predispose to a risk of pediatric stroke:
"CAUSES OF PEDIATRIC STROKE
The causes of stroke differ greatly in children and adults. Adult risk factors such as hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes do not commonly cause stroke in children. Rather, pediatric strokes may be caused by:
• Birth defects
• Infections (e.g., meningitis, encephalitis)
• Trauma
• Blood disorders, such as sickle cell disease or clotting problems
• Congenital or acquired heart disease
• Abnormalities of blood vessels (e.g. moyamoya, dissection,
vasculitis)
• Metabolic disorders"
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/Documents/Cerebrovascular_Center/10-NEU-043PedsStrokeFactsheet.pdf
Posted by: Linda | February 13, 2014 at 09:16 PM
VAERS shows that all vaccines induce strokes in people of all ages.
Posted by: no-vac | February 13, 2014 at 07:36 PM