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HuckleB

(35,773 posts) Tue Apr 15, 2014, 12:12 PM Apr 2014

'I Never Told Anyone Not to Vaccinate' by James Hamblin

In a veiled apology this week, Jenny McCarthy again illustrated that health science and culture are inextricable. Vaccination is among the few definitive tenets of disease prevention, but because of rampant misinformation, fear, and scientific illiteracy, rare infections have come back to life. What's to be done about that.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/i-never-told-anyone-not-to-vaccinate/360655/

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'I Never Told Anyone Not to Vaccinate' by James Hamblin (Original Post) HuckleB Apr 2014 OP

Unfortunately, even at DU, there are people who follow in McCarthy's footsteps. HuckleB Apr 2014 #1

HuckleB

(35,773 posts)

1. Unfortunately, even at DU, there are people who follow in McCarthy's footsteps.

Reply to HuckleB (Original post)

Tue Apr 15, 2014, 04:40 PM

Apr 2014

And those footsteps are awfully out of sync. Vaccines do not cause autism.

Autism and Vaccines
http://www.autismsciencefoundation.org/autismandvaccines.html

Vaccine Safety: Examine the Evidence
http://www2.aap.org/immunization/families/faq/vaccinestudies.pdf

75 studies that show no link between vaccines and autism UPDATED to 107
http://justthevax.blogspot.com/2014/03/75-studies-that-show-no-link-between.html

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