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More Alison Singer, IACC, Autism, Vaccines, and Advocacy Groups
- Posted on 01.17.09
This was a comment I made on the discover blog to the Alison Singer story about her resignation from the Interagency coordinating comittee on Autism flip flop this week on vaccine autism research.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/17/alison-singer-autism-hero/#comment-148983
" But the antivaxxers are loud, well-funded, and get a lot of media sympathy."
Oh my how the story gets turned upside down and inside out. Jeff you must not have been following this thing for long if you wonder why parents get upset and connect things to vaccines. Children are brought in healthy and they die in the crib (sids) or they come in later as my son. Able to speak, chew his food, ride his bike, shoot a basketball, and play... get vaccines and lose all those abilities and more. The key here is nobody has the answers to anything. So at this point until you have the answer nothing can be ruled out.
Is everyone ok with trading a model for vaccination of one that trades acute for chronic conditions? We understand deadly diseases need to be prevented. The model now is to prevent economic losses from losing days at work. Nobody has even looked at the advances in medicine. Are you telling me a disease that killed people 40, 50 years ago could not be treated in isolation and modern medicines?
Alison has done us a favor. Now she has woke up the sleeping giant. Autism speaks was trying to walk the neutral tight rope. Now it must take sides. The parents want specific unbiased research done. To say you refuse to do the research because it is a conflict to parents cases is saying let the case go on because we might prove that there is a connection. Then what would we do? Actually help the families?
Phil you are right we are loud. To say we are well funded compared to the government and pharma is laughable. I think it is high time that we get not only sympathy from media but also action
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