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Conflicts of Interest...Blog exchange about priorities in the vaccine autism debate...
- Posted on 10.19.08
Again, I like to be fair to all sides... This was an exchange I had last summer on a blog... I still to this day ponder why and what motivates this mother to so vehemently attack parents of special needs children....
Any comments let me know what you think of this exchange....
a concerned mother Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
You could do a great deal of good by looking into the conflicts of interests of parents who go around commenting on blogs like this and feeding lies and misrepresentations to newspaper reporters and failing to note that they are vaccine litigants who actively attempt to influence the future jury pools with their heartrending stories of babies snatched from them by evil vaccines. You are entirely too gullible if you think that some of these people aren’t lying through their teeth. Sure some may believe it but it doesn’t mean that you can believe their stories. Parent’s pass on these beliefs to each other. Remember when it seemed like all the day care centers in the US were run by child molestation rings? Do you think those parents actually believed what their children were saying? Of course they did. Does it mean that they were right or was it a hysteria? It was a hysteria. Passing on idiotic stories about vaccines causing autism just contributes to the hysteria. The science has all been laid out in the vaccine court now. It would take you some time, but you’d learn why it is all a bunch of groundless hyperventilation, and you’ll see the hands of greedy personal injury lawyers all over the whole mess.
(side note the the cases that are pending are in vaccine injury court and have strict limitations on amounts paid out. The money to be paid out is already there through taxes on the parents... see my blog post http://www.causecast.org/member/tanners-dad/blog_posts/304 )
Tanners Dad Says:
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 am
Concerned Mother…What is your conflict of interest? To be that angry at the group of parents, must be driven by something. I do not call being kept up all night, changing diapers for eleven years, marriages being torn apart, no support from the world of education, medical, insurance, government, friends, church, and the public as having a conflict of interest. I call it torture. These parents and children have been abused at every turn. We are just now seing the tip of the iceberg. If we do not unite soon we will be dead. Now there are reports of AOA Adult onset Autism. Soon we all will be staring into space and forget what we all were arguing about. For sure we won’t remember how to turn on the coumputer and our 10,000 pass words.
dinah Says:
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:29 am
Poor, poor Tanners Dad. Everybody has difficulties and issues. Some have troubles worse than those of autism parents, but you don’t see them going around making willful misrepresentations of science and demanding that researchers keep doing studies over and over just because the parents don’t like the way the studies came out. Where might autism science be if if didn’t have the mercury militia millstone around its neck?
Tanners Dad Says:
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:04 am
Dinah Thanks for the good laugh. Mercury Militia being a millstone around the scientists neck..HA HA HA HA HA HA I can not stop laughing HA ha HA ha… The congress asked for a Vac vs UnVac study over 10 years ago. The scientist do not care about the parents, congress or even good science. They care about getting their chair funded so they can drive BMW’s and Mercedes to school.
Beside that I have never been a Mercury Militia member. Please tell me one example of misrepresentation of science I have made. I am very eager to learn. I believe there is a genetic predisposition. I believe in the good things vacination programs have done. Just because I believe that until we find a cause we should protect our children does not make me evil. I have my lot in life. I am voicing my opinion to help others. Probably someone in your family will soon be affected by Autism. I hope and pray that they get support from somewhere. God Bless you.
Other parents came to my defense...Here are some of their comments....
And, when all else fails, blame the “mercury militia”, which is supposedly hampering the efforts of Science (with a captial S), to research autism.
Well, if science is so feeble a “mercury militia” can hinder its efforts to uncover the truth, my guess it wasn’t trying very hard in the first place. Actually, that is my guess—up till now, science, and the medical industry, hasn’t really been too interested in researching autism, or finding a cure. (Oh yes, they sometimes talk about fragile X syndrome, or genes, or whatever, but it all drifts away into vagueness, and promises of something, sometime next year. Or maybe the year after that. Or. . . )
One problem is that doctors, not really wanting to deal with autism, have a tendency to turn people over to the local support Autism support group, or social workers—people who are not scientists, and who frequently do believe in such things as the vaccination/mercury connection, or that diet, or magnetic mud baths, or chelation or some such thing is the cure for autism.
(I’ve had all sorts of things recommended to me for my son, from chelation to getting him a dog, as a sure cure for autism.)
If doctors don’t help, have no answers and no real interest in trying to assist autistic kids and their parents, then, yes, many people will start researching matters for themselves, and grabbing at whatever’s out there. Some of it might be helpful, some of it might be silly, or dangerous, but, with nothing else to turn to, people are going to go for it. We need more real research, and we need it now.
We are in the middle of an autism epidemic. 1 in 150 kids are affected. I think we would do alot to focus on helping kids and their families versus these comments.
(I am still struggling why a parent with a special needs kids would lie. I would rather have my son be healthy and without any diagnosis. That comment is truly sad. What do parents have to gain by lies? Certainly not more help.).
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