Vaccine/Autism bombshell: "Varicella and Hepatitis A immunization coverage was significantly correlated to autistic disorder cases." pg 274, 281 look at the rise in autism cases

Vaccine/Autism bombshell: "Varicella and Hepatitis A immunization coverage was significantly correlated to autistic disorder cases." pg 274, 281 look at the rise in autism cases ( ms.academicjournals.org )

submitted 2015-04-24T05:20 by SomeoneOnTheInternet

6 comments

Charlie_Prime 2015-04-24T18:52

"As soon as this bill gets signed into law by Gov. Brown, it will deny public education to all children who are not vaccinated."

Awesome. Keeping those kids out of the public robot factories will make their lives longer and happier.

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OWNtheNWO 2015-04-24T12:02

I love how all of a sudden /v/conspiracy has a bunch of 'professionals' in the vaccine related comments sections, lol.

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KoKansei 2015-04-24T06:23

I'm a skeptic of everything and detest the status quo as much as, if not more than, many of the people who frequent this verse. However, as someone with a background in molecular biology I have to say:

This study is garbage. The authors only point to a correlation between the use of certain vaccines and an increase in autism diagnoses. Correlation =! causation and the increase in autism rates could be attributed to almost anything else, including increased awareness of autism within the medical community, other environmental factors, etc. Also, as someone who has authored a few peer-reviewed journal papers I can tell you that the discussion section is written in a very non-objective way and it is clear the authors have an agenda.

Just out of curiosity, I looked up the institute affiliated with the authors and it is some outfit called the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute . Their agenda is clear from their website, so any paper authored by them should be treated with the utmost skepticism.

As a father I have been following this whole vaccination hysteria closely and have yet to find any convincing studies that establish a causal relationship between vaccines and autism with any reasonable level of rigor. If anyone has any other papers they think demonstrate otherwise I would love to see them.

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datjedi 2015-04-24T16:16

Correlation != causation, but it certainly gives merit for investigating. Your discounting of one study and the correlation between the two shows that maybe you're not as open to the idea as you think.

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escapefromredditbay 2015-04-24T05:54

haven't reviewed it yet, but just chiming in that contrary to scared bigots (cough, AUTISM-SPEAKS), autism isn't, well, deadly, at all. but still, weird things with the brain and science, its worth investigating if there's merit .

edit: also, remember, a rise in autism finding has been in some cases, attributed to just better/"in" detection.

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catechumen 2015-04-24T05:37

I upvoated you because I will review this, can't comment on the content as of yet.

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