[Magdalen] [Magdale

[Don]

"We just don't know" is hard to accept, and it isn't surprising that absent certainty about causes people cling to hypotheses about cause that are unproven or disproven.  At best, autism "treatment" addresses  behavioral manifestations but not the poorly understood autism spectrum disorders themselves.







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On May 30, 2019 10:11 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What I find appalling is that people who should know better,  like Robert Kennedy’s son (Joseph?), are still spreading this misinformation! 
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> > On May 30, 2019, at 8:54 PM, Don <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote: 
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> > Roger, "ignorant" doesn't begin to express the folly of believing that vaccines can cause autism.  I do believe that the mistrust of government sponsored research is close kin to the belief that Trump would be the Fixer In Chief and indeed that he is Doing a Good Job.  (And unlike his NWord predecessor is Telling It Like It Is)_ 
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> >> On May 30, 2019 4:48 PM, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote: 
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> >> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48468801 
> >> 
> >> This story on the BBC news site saddens me. In 2000 the USA was declared 
> >> effectively measles-free. Less than two decades later ignorant (and I 
> >> use that adjective advisedly) parents are endangering that status. There 
> >> are some individual children who, for valid medical reasons, should not 
> >> receive the vaccination but the parents of the rest owe it to them, 
> >> surely, to maintain "herd immunity" by having their children vaccinated. 
> >> The suggestion that the MMR vaccination can lead to autism has been 
> >> debunked as being a fraudulent claim based on seriously flawed methodology. 
> >> 
> >> In the interests of complete disclosure my son (born 1978) had childhood 
> >> asthma so his mother and I were concerned about the dangers of the 
> >> whooping cough vaccination. Our doctor spoke with us and pointed out the 
> >> balance of risk between vaccination and non-vaccination so he received 
> >> the vaccination. He was also vaccinated against measles but still 
> >> developed the disease with complications including vomiting. Might it 
> >> have been worse without the vaccination? I don't know but I do know the 
> >> importance of reducing the incidence of diseases from being endemic in 
> >> an area with life-threatening implications for the more vulnerable. 
> >> 
> >> We owe it to our neighbours, whom we are enjoined to love. 
> >> 
> >> Roger 
> >>