Decade-Long Study: Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism, Even in High-Risk Kids (reuters.com)

The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine isn't associated with an increased risk of autism even among kids who are at high risk because they have a sibling with the disorder, a Danish study suggests. From a report: Concerns about a potential link between the MMR vaccine and autism have persisted for two decades, since a controversial and ultimately retracted 1998 paper claimed there was a direct connection. Even though subsequent studies haven't tied inoculation to autism, fear about the risk has weighed on parents so much in several communities across Europe and the U.S. that vaccination rates have been too low to prevent a spate of measles outbreaks.

In the current study, researchers examined data on 657,461 children. During this time, 6,517 kids were diagnosed with autism. Kids who got the MMR vaccine were seven percent less likely to develop autism than children who didn't get vaccinated, researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine. "Parents should not skip the vaccine out of fear for autism," said lead study author Dr. Anders Hviid of the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark. "The dangers of not vaccinating includes a resurgence in measles which we are seeing signs of today in the form of outbreaks," Hviid said by email.

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Re:But don't worry

[Agent0013]

But they don't have a right to endanger other people.

I completely agree. If you get your kid vaccinated, you should have to keep them isolated from the safe and clean population.

Or do you not know about the Measles outbreaks that have been in the news? How the outbreak in Disney was not a wild strain. Or the outbreaks in Alberta, that were traced back to the strain used in the vaccines? So you pro-vaxxers are spreading outbreaks around and blaming innocent people. Do you also like to shame rape victims for being raped!!!

Since I know pro-vaxxers won't do any research on their own, rather relying on the supposed experts to tell you what to believe, here is a link for you. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

The latest studies by actual scientists who care to know if these things are safe are finding that we were lied to about that as well. As many as 1 out of 168 end up with harmful side effects from vaccines. But in the US, less than 1% are reported as vaccine harm or side effects. So it looks safe because you aren't looking. And why would anyone want to look when you are immune from lawsuits anyway.

Another link for the unbelievers. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Re: But don't worry

[Agent0013]

But the large number of vaxxers are causing harm. It has been discovered that many of the outbreaks recently, like the Disney one, are not wild strains. If the vaxxers were not pushing their harm, there would have been no outbreak at all. And the un-vaccinated that got infected there can blame the irresponsible pro-vaxxers and their infected children for putting their children into harms way.

Re:Seven percent less likely means correlation

[Agent0013]

Try your force and see the counter force. Your pro-vaxxer ways have actually already caused harm. Remember the Disney Measles outbreak? Yep, vaccine strain that caused the outbreak, not wild strain. So you infected people are running around and causing harm to nice clean innocent people. I say if you want to come breath air near me, then I should be able to shoot you in t he face for trying to infect me with your disease. Does that sound reasonable to you, because that is what you are telling me.

Re:But don't worry

[jwdb]

It's better to let Socialism criticize itself by pointing out that there are no successful implementations of it

Same's true of capitalism - there's no successful implementation of pure capitalism either, and it's had quite a number of notable failures, for instance the Great Recession, Great Depression, Robber Baron period, etc...

Pure ideologies rarely succeed. So far the most successful societies have been blends.

and there are many failed implementations that have killed millions of people.

Citation needed - examples of this showing that socialism was the cause of the deaths.

Feel free to point out an "actual" Socialist country and we'll point out how it isn't Socialist.

Ditto for capitalism/free market.