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Loading...Trump Says a “Monster Shot” Causes Autism
First, just to make it really clear: Vaccines do not cause autism.
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that, according to figures released just last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is much more common in children in the U.S. than ever. 1 in 88 children in the U.S. — 1 in 54 boys — are on the autism spectrum. April is Autism Awareness / Acceptance Month and the United Nations has dubbed April 2 World Autism Awareness Day.
Now, Donald Trump just reminded us why we need this month by saying on Fox News that the cause of autism is “monster” vaccinations.
Here’s Trump’s own unfortunate words via Raw Story:
“I’ve gotten to be pretty familiar with the subject. You know, I have a theory — and it’s a theory that some people believe in — and that’s the vaccinations. We never had anything like this. This is now an epidemic. It’s way, way up over the past 10 years. It’s way up over the past two years. And, you know, when you take a little baby that weighs like 12 pounds into a doctor’s office and they pump them with many, many simultaneous vaccinations — I’m all for vaccinations, but I think when you add all of these vaccinations together and then two months later the baby is so different then lots of different things have happened. I really — I’ve known cases.”
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“It happened to somebody that worked for me recently…I mean, they had this beautiful child, not a problem in the world, and all of the sudden they go in and they get this monster shot. You ever see the size of it? It’s like they’re pumping in — you know, it’s terrible, the amount. And they pump this in to this little body and then all of the sudden the child is different a month later.”
Trump has clearly gotten wind of the new CDC study. Scientists and medical professionals keep patiently pointing out a few key reasons for the significant increases: (1) a concerted effort to diagnose autism in younger children; (2) an equally intense effort to train pediatricians, early childhood educators and parents to look out for the signs of autism in young children; (3) the vastly broadened and still-changing definition of autism, so that, today, more than a few who are diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder might (in previous years) have received no diagnosis, been labelled “mentally retarded” or as having “childhood schizophrenia,” been considered “quirky/weird/eccentric” or been labeled with other conditions.
Since 1998, the notion that vaccines or something in vaccines such as the mercury-based preservative thimerosal could be causing autism has been in circulation. A British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, published an article in the medical journal The Lancet in which he said he had found a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and the onset of autism in young children. The Lancet retracted that study in 2010 and nearly 20 recent studies have further refuted a vaccine-autism link.
But once Wakefield had held a 1998 press conference announcing his findings, the proverbial cat was out of the bag and it has proved exceedingly hard to restore public confidence in vaccines.
Read more: andrew wakefield, aspergers, autism, autism epidemic, disability, donald trump, fox news, herd immunity, immunization, pdd-nos, vaccine, vaccines, Wakefield
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Thank you Cate. I cannot conveniently condense 400 pages or research into neat soundbites for here, but my reasons for being interested in vaccinations and what they can do to SOME people, is this. At 22 I was a drummer, fit and strong but I was then given 3 shots for Hepatitis B, at the hospital where I worked which led to M.E.. I would rather have had cancer as at least then people know what is wrong with you, there is compassion, help, support, treatment even and your friends and family understand. With M.E. you are as popular as a peadophile leper with AIDS. I was then unable to walk properly for the next 3 years and have spent 20 years unable to work, housebound. Not just unable to work, but have no friends, nor go on holiday, no sport, car, a house, sex, get married, continue my hobbies. As for drumming or even music, forget it. 20 million people worldwide have M.E. I bet you know nothing about it. After working with an immunologist, my research is almost complete as to what goes on with M.E. and to some people who are vaccinated. There's no proof that the Gulf War veterans got Gulf War Syndrome from vaccines either, but they sure as hell were made chronically and fatally ill by multiple shots of deadly pathogens, then sent out to war which then depresses the immune system to zero. With MMR, the problem is giving 3 shots at once, to save money. That is the real issue.
That settles it. When a narcissistic idiot like Trump decides to spout a decade-old and repeatedly refuted notion, nothing could ever make me believe it.
Past member has some good reminders there, but please, please look up Wakefield & his dubious behaviour on google. He did not have evidence for any link. Yes, the occurence appears to be increasing, but the classification is now much broader than 40 years ago. Vaccines have been around for far longer than the increase in occurence in the last 10-15 years. Smallpox, diptheria, whooping cough & measles can kill little children. And they frequently did prior to our modern vaccines. I once watched the awful, slow death of a little girl from post measles meningitis. And I have no doubt that if her mother could have had her alive with autism or dead, she would have chosen the former. The link is suspected because at about age 2 the autistic characteristics become apparent, just when the triple antigen is given. But if you check videos of the first birthday party of many kids with an ASD you can pick up differences from neurotypical kids.
Follow the money...Wakefield* was vilified by who?
The UK Murdoch newspaper phone hackers and their so called investigative reporter...Dumbledoor Deer, who worked for Murdoch. Murdoch's son is on the board of Merck...the vaccine maker.
This article smacks of spin doctoring...not the level of truth and accuracy I expect from Care2
Sad...this is a forum where I expect truth and neutrality...just the facts...THE REAL FACTS.
*Wakefield has since been exonerated and honoured for his sentience.
Even if you don't believe that there could be a connection between vaccines and autism, it is criminal to pump an infant with vaccinations when they are still developing their immune system. Parents should be very careful of this and refuse this vaccine assault on their children.
Kudos to Trump for speaking about this. With his celebrity status, he can bring more attention to this most important issue. Welcome to the vaccine nation.
I've gotten to be pretty familiar with the subject. You know, I have a theory-and it's a theory that some people believe in-and that's that trump is an idiot.
There is no misunderstanding of what vaccinations are or what is in them. The question is effectiveness and safety. If things like Mercury and other toxins are in them we have no way of knowing. And do not take the words of the drug companies or the FDA. They both are corrupt and if you do not believe that then explain how they can push their drugs with side effects of cancer, tuberculosis, heart attack, stroke, liver failure, death etc. Those are just some of the ones they admit to and with the approval of the FDA. The drug companies have been fined millions after being caught altering the study results and various other criminal behavior. Law suits for people that have been severely harmed or killed by their drugs And nothing sells drugs better than fear. This is not 1918 and the question is what are they putting in the shots, are they effective and safe. And please do not tell us we should trust the drug companies words that they no longer use mercury or other bad substances because they are not trustworthy. The evidence is overwhelming and all of it is of public record. Money talks and the drug companies can buy all the influence they need and only care about profit not people. It is a matter of trust and not a lesson in what vaccinations are. The fox is guarding the hen house.
". And when someone gets a shot and gets the flu or sick from the shot that is a clue that the shot was responsible."
You misunderstand what vaccinations are and what they are comprised of. They're made from the actual virus or a close genetic cousin. Your body builds immunity because it's been exposed to dead flu virus or the mumps. Sometimes the body gets a low dose of the flu. Depending on how old you are, you may have a small scar on your shoulder from the smallpox vaccine, a deadly virus that killed millions of people every year. Millions were also killed by the 1918 flu. Very few people today know what those pandemics were like. The fear and total confusion. The horror of getting sick in the morning, and being dead by sunset. One-quarters of Americans were infected, one-fifth of the world by the Spanish flu.
Smallpox was an endemic pandemic, it was world-wide and no one had a cure. It had a mortality rate of 30-25%. Smallpox was defeated by a concerted, worldwide effort to vaccinate the world and confine outbreaks with a strategic use of rings of vaccination. If you could destroy it in one area, then it wouldn't spread to another. The last smallpox case was recorded in 1976. The virus was officially extinct. (it wasn't entirely, but that's another subject) There have been no outbreaks since then. But that only worked because it was mandatory. You weren't given the choice to not be vaccinated.
The 1918 flu had no vaccine, but they did seek to control it by str
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