Wakefield was a FRAUD! He wanted to get rich on his own Measles-only vaccine, so he falsified a study done only on 12 kids, some of which were showing signs of autism BEFORE the vaccination. The MMR has since been tried and tested countless times, and no link has been found. It can actually PREVENT kids from having autism, as rubella during pregnancy might be one of the causes for autism.
I bet people are advised against being vaccinated DURING pregnancy, just in case.
Silver teeth fillings? Do you mean amalgam? Oh look; in 2018, the EU prohibited amalgam for treatment of children under 15 and for pregnant or breastfeeding women. Besides, I can’t remember when I got an amalgam tooth-filling last time. They usually use some white plastic material nowadays. If it’s teeth-fillings that’s the culprit, the number of autism cases ought to go down: amalgam has been used for hundreds of years, but it’s now being phased out.
Vaccinations have been done for over two-hundred years, since Jenner invented the one for smallpox. I’m 50 years old and I had the smallpox one, and against polio, rubella, tetanus, TBE (the last two I’ve had several times). Probably a couple more that I don’t remember now.
If you’re afraid of mercury and aluminium; don’t eat vegetables, and don’t eat animals that have been eating vegetables. Oh, and don’t eat grains or anything else that have been growing in, ya know, soil. Have fun getting poisoned by botulinum-toxin from eating too much honey. Or not, as there’s probably aluminium in honey as well, so you can’t eat that either.
FACT, Tony-boy can’t form proper sentences, and his statistics must be faulty. Autism can’t be as common as one in 22 births, surely!
Wikipedia: In the developed countries, about 1.5% of children are diagnosed with ASD as of 2017.
That’s more like three cases in 200 births.
Modern chemical medicine is purer and more exact than ancient plant medicine, as you, in effect, remove the chemicals you don’t need from the plant, and make sure you have the same amount of active ingredients in every dose. Plants are of course ALSO chemical (what else would they be?), and can be stronger or weaker depending on where they grow, how much sunlight they have gotten, what’s in the soil where they grow, if someone has been chewing on the plant or not, etc, etc, etc.
CDC is not the only organisation in the world testing medications. Scientists in the EU haven’t found any link either, nor have any scientists in any other part of the world. Scientists are often competitive; they want to be first with a new find. They won’t gang up and hide important discoveries, if they have a chance for a Nobel Prize.
The real truth is that the MMR vaccine has saved about a million people from dying, PER YEAR, since the year 2000. I bet many autistic people think living with a different-working brain beats dying of measles.
Andrew Wakefield was called on his bluff long before 2017, dearie. He wasn’t even a licensed doctor anymore, in 2017.
Wikipedia: Other researchers were unable to reproduce Wakefield's findings, and a 2004 investigation by Sunday Times reporter Brian Deer identified undisclosed financial conflicts of interest on Wakefield's part. […]
In 2010, the GMC found that Wakefield had been dishonest in his research, had acted against his patients' best interests and mistreated developmentally delayed children, and had "failed in his duties as a responsible consultant". The Lancet fully retracted Wakefield's 1998 publication on the basis of the GMC's findings, noting that elements of the manuscript had been falsified and that the journal had been "deceived" by Wakefield. Three months later, Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register, due in part to his deliberate falsification of research published in The Lancet, and was barred from practicing medicine in the UK. In a related legal decision, a British court held that "[t]here is now no respectable body of opinion which supports [Dr. Wakefield's] hypothesis, that MMR vaccine and autism/enterocolitis are causally linked".
