The recent court decision denying vaccine liability for autism was the result of the anti-vax group going down the wrong path. The hypotheses that thimerosal alone is the problem or that the MMR vaccine is the cause of autism is misplaced. And the Wakefield 'study' has long been dismissed by reasonable and well-researched doctors on the side that questions the safety of vaccines (and this underscores another problem with the anti-vax legal approach: they didn't bring the researchers who would have shown some troubling direct and transitive relationships between vaccines and various disorders).
The issue is NOT that a single vaccine or single neurotoxin such as thimerosal causes autism but rather that the VACCINE SCHEDULE itself has NEVER been subjected to safety tests (the cumulative effect of neurotoxins and/OR the effect of that shots on the immune system). They should have reminded the court that the Congressional bill -- H.R. 2832 (Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act ) -- seeks to do just that (if the schedule HAD been tested then this bill wouldn't exist). Further, they should have stated that Aluminum (a known neurotoxin) is still in many vaccines. And then brought in the issue of multiple shots by presenting what should be well-known medical knowledge: that despite the APA's insistence that the immune system is ok with multiple shots because it successfully handles thousands of environmental antigens daily, the fact is that the vaccine injection overstimulate the TH2 side of the immune system and have shown to damage brain microglia (both of which don't occur when the immune system processes environmental antigens). Note that TH2 overstimulation has been correlated to autoimmune disorders which, in turn, have some correlation (e.g. they may show genetic susceptibility) to autism.
Bottom line: separate all vaccines and go to a pediatrician who selects vaccines with lowest aluminum content. Check out The Vaccine Book.
The issue is NOT that a single vaccine or single neurotoxin such as thimerosal causes autism but rather that the VACCINE SCHEDULE itself has NEVER been subjected to safety tests (the cumulative effect of neurotoxins and/OR the effect of that shots on the immune system). They should have reminded the court that the Congressional bill -- H.R. 2832 (Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act ) -- seeks to do just that (if the schedule HAD been tested then this bill wouldn't exist). Further, they should have stated that Aluminum (a known neurotoxin) is still in many vaccines. And then brought in the issue of multiple shots by presenting what should be well-known medical knowledge: that despite the APA's insistence that the immune system is ok with multiple shots because it successfully handles thousands of environmental antigens daily, the fact is that the vaccine injection overstimulate the TH2 side of the immune system and have shown to damage brain microglia (both of which don't occur when the immune system processes environmental antigens). Note that TH2 overstimulation has been correlated to autoimmune disorders which, in turn, have some correlation (e.g. they may show genetic susceptibility) to autism.
Bottom line: separate all vaccines and go to a pediatrician who selects vaccines with lowest aluminum content. Check out The Vaccine Book.
IMO the bottom line is way more complicated than that.
