Oh, dear. That’s a very poor study.

Well, it is expected that some will still fight up against the evidence as in the above comment. I can’t understand why we as a people have so much confidence in people who have always sought to destroy us with their evil plots.

It is not that vaccinations may not be a good thing, it is that these people are devious. See the video below. This man swore that he in all conscience could never have used the Chimp, yet all his workers testified that the chimp was the only animal he used. They testified to killing the chimps and giving the scientists the kidneys of the chimp. Western medicine just cannot be trusted. They really only care about the billions and trillions. That is what make them dangerous. More dangerous is the fact that they target our children. Doctors can refuse to treat people becuse they did not get a vaccine? I see. They make the laws, right… without ever facing the polls, right? So vaccinations are mandatory? hmmmm…. I don’t go to them at all and I can show people how to avoid doctors. You don’t need them and your children surely don’t but if you feed your children the crap, then you feel you have no choice. It is like shooting yourself and then trying to plug the hole, when all you have to do is throw away the gun.
http://youtu.be/LZs1V8mpcoY

@David: “Simply putting both sides of this debate.

With all due respect to my dear friend ROK, some are overly sensitive.

Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_autism

David,

Putting “both sides of this debate” is vesting one side which is supported by every public health agency in the world, masses and masses of scientific data that has been subjected to rigourous peer review. Against another side which has loads of passion but lacks any scientific data that is capable of withstanding even the most rudimentary scrutiny.

When you say “putting both sides of the debate” it ignores the fact that “one of these things is NOT like the other”

@ David,

it is sad that much scientific debate is framed in a way that ignores “the weight of facts” Global warming in the US has become something that you “believe” in as if it were a matter of faith. The scientifically accepted evidence overwhelming points in one direction on the issue of Global warming.

A similar thing can be said about vaccines. Scientific evidence OVERWHELMINGLY indicates that vaccines are safe and effective and result in positive outcomes.

Barack Obama was born in the USA. The facts OVERWHELMINGLY point to the fact that this simple fact is indeed factual.

However in each of these cases there is a group that for it’s own reasons (some well meaning some not) choose not to accept what is generally accepted. The news media in trying to “present both sides of the argument” imbue what is often a lunatic fringe with legitimacy. In an effort to be fair and balanced they often present the two sides as being equivalent when they clearly are not.

The danger of this is that ludicrous arguments that could be dismissed out of hand are now presented as having some legitimacy other than the fact that “it’s written down somewhere or the other”. Time must be taken to detail why it’s junk science, This takes time and resources.

In the case of the autism debate years were spent trying to prove or disprove a causal link to vaccines because of a study carried out by a quack and financed by a lawyer suing vaccine companies. In the meantime parents chose not to vaccinate their children and some children caught measles and some died deaths that were easily preventable in every way.

To present “both sides of the story” implicitly presumes that the story has sides. Matters of opinion have sides, matters of fact do not.

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.

Human activity has resulted in an increase in global warming.

Vaccines are safe and effective.

DAVID
I WILL SEND A VERY DETAILED PPT ON THIS ISSUE FOR POSTING PUT TOGETHER BY A PATHOLOGIST AND EPIDEMIOLOGIST

THE READERSHIP CAN GRASP WHAT IT CAN THEREFROM

GP

Try going to sub-saharan African where children die in their thousands from illnesses such as measles because the parents cannot afford/have no access to vaccines.

People in western countries often come up with vaccination scare stories – probably because they don’t children routinely see dying before they even reach 5 years old.

Here is the presentation ISSUES RELATED TO INFANT MORTALITY RATE sent by Doc GP.

My personal observation is that the drug companies are bad, but the anti-vacc crusaders are worse. The drug companies misrepresent data and choose emphasis to suit themselves; but the anti-vacc crusaders make up data, and lie.

This blog has lost credibility with me. It’s not enough to say “Here’s info, you decide”. People trust you. You have a journalistic responsibility to at least note the massive conflicts of interest of the “authors” of the first “study”.

Your irresponsible presentation makes the title “study” seem credible, and the second link seem like an afterthought; where in reality, the title “study” is near-criminal, and the second link is essential reading.

Shame on you! I won’t be sharing this link!

Barbados needs bloggers to stand up and make the real facts known, not merely to parrot the propaganda of the evil and the deluded!