Click here to read an article from US New and World Report that states that the link between the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine and autism is false. Unfortunately, scientists still do not know what causes autism and a great deal of research needs to be done in the future.
What are your thoughts on this issue? Do you think The Lancet should have published this study in first place? Why or why not?
This is really interesting
ReplyDeleteHopefully scientists will figure out what cuses autism.
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My sister Debbie has her Masters in Early Childhood Special Education with concentration in Autism Spectrum Disorder, so I've always been exposed to information and breakthroughs in it. I've always found it particularly interesting, partially because of this. One thing I think is very sad is that parents are willing to do anything to cure their child of autism, and people like Wakefield take advantage of this.
ReplyDeleteThe (realistic fiction) book Rules is about a girl whose little brother has autism, and I found that it gave a good look into how autism affects people while still telling a story.
There's a woman named Temple Grandin who has autism and she's written books about it. She gives speeches, but she has to keep her back turned to the audience, which I think is proof that she has learned to live her life with it. She has come up with many things to help kids with autism, like the "squeeze machine," which she based off of a machine on the farm she grew up on to calm the animals getting vaccines. She came up with a new way of operating slaughterhouses based on what the cow sees. I think that there's going to be a television show about her.
Wow. I hope that someday they will find the cause and all those people with autism will finally be able to get help. Maybe The Lancet shouldn't have published that so as not to get peoples hopes up too much, just so that they can be crushed later.
ReplyDeleteThis was interesting! Thanks Leslie!
ReplyDeleteThis might be true and it may be false. I think the autism is false. I've pretty much been vaccinated for every vaccine there is(except for the H1N1 cause we have to wait forever for that one!) and I dont have autism!
this is just sad, i find disorders such as autism depressing and i feel terrible for people who have it. and i dont believe that there is a link between MMR and autism, i thought autism was something you were born with, just that people didnt know u had it until u were older...of course there is the possiblity that a parent got the vaccine shot and SOME HOW the kid inherited it and it caused autism...but thats far fetched, so im just sticking with the link being a load of nonsense
ReplyDeleteThnx leslie thats wat i needed to now
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Gabby - thanks for sharing! I want to know more about Temple Grandin. I have a close friend who works with autistic children, so I have also been exposed to information and behavioral techniques to help autistic children.
ReplyDeletePhew! I always believed that MMR wasn't related to autism, but when I heard all of the research and articles on it, I was starting to get worried for the people who had the MMR, because autism is very sad disease. Hopefully, scientists will find what really does cause autism.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have a question: why are measles, mumps and rubella suddenly spreading, when the diseases haven't been common in a while?
Why do people so desperately want to blame someone that they perform unvalid experiments and reports to accuse them?
ReplyDeleteThat is really a shame, it is horrible to think that scientists put so much effort and hard work into a study that was pointless.
ReplyDeleteIt most likely wasn't anyway.
ReplyDeleteMMR has no connection to vaccinations.
I think people are just desperate for an answer to autism. But you can't blame them. They're just worried. Or they want to cause panic for some evil reason...
My brother might, I said MIGHT, have autism but they can't really tell right now. He's just turned four... I feel worried myself but also angry at his brattiness...
But I really do hope they find out how to cure autism if there is a cure and what causes it.
I think it actually might be caused by genetics. It COULD be a recessive gene... OR it could just be an abnormality because of something disrupted during pregnancy.
Michael N. 7I
This is really sad because Wakefield took advantage of these parents who are ignorant and would do anything for their child. This was only tested on one child. That's not a large sample space.That's one child out of billions of other children in the world. And MMR isn't even related to autism they're two different things.The Lancet should have published this because there wasn't enough evidence that the MMR vacine is linked to autism.I actually think he should be arrested because he caused worlwide panic, kind of. Because of him many people didn't take the MMR vaccine and many people got sick. Oh and Owen that's the answer to your question, because of Wakefield(and The Lancet to,kind of for publishing it.)people actually started believing that the MMR vacine caused autism. So because of this people didn't take the vaccine in fear of getting autism and in turn got sick with MMR. Thanks LESLIE!
ReplyDeleteI really hope they eventually find a cure for autism. It is so sad when I hear about how much parents do to try and help their children with diseases like autism.I wish we could do something.
ReplyDeleteI still cant believe Wakefield would do that!!!!! its horrible!
I dont think they should have published The Lancet.
Leila M. 7F
Some parents still don't let their kids get vaccines because they think they're going to get autism. This is sad, because then the diseases spread through out day cares and elementary schools even though we've already found a way to prevent them. The people that make parents believe these things really shouldn't because they're just getting the parent's hopes up and exposing children to diseases there is absolutely no reason for them to get!
ReplyDeleteThat is so sad! Parents are desprate to find a cure for there children, and then there are people like Wakefield who would take advantage of them. I hope we will be able to find a cure for autism so many people can stop suffuring.
ReplyDeletePeople like Wakefield who give in to others' superstitions for money only backtrack possibilities of finding cures and making discoveries that can combat the superstitions and stop them from ever coming to fruition. Jenny McCarthy is only slowing the progress of finding a possibility of a permanent cure, why is she doing things that will prevent others from having the same problem?
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I feel really bad for the children, i mean having autism is hard to live with. So i hope the scientists find something that cures autism and fast.
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My mom's friend is working with a group of scientists who are trying to find the cause of autism. When she tried explaining it to me she said that the M.M.R or any vaccinations do not have anything to do with autism. She repeated that it was a genetic cause
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