Misleading reports about autism data - Page 30

[Taximom5]

Originally Posted by stik 

SLMommy, in my many, many years around this forum, I have never seen a drug company shill on these boards.   

How exactly would you know if someone is a drug company shill? Do you know the personal identities and employers of everyone who posts?

[Taximom5]

Originally Posted by slmommy 

It is pretty easy for tensions on either side to get heated and say things...

I think taxi was pretty upset by poster(s)? implying/saying her children's issues could not have been caused by vaccines, and essentially that her whole knowledge/understanding of her family's health is bunk. 

I'm not really sure, but I read her comments to be more aimed about possibility of troll/med student/shill whatever coming to "argue" on these boards. It happens all the time. I know that some non-vaxing members here have been "virtually" stalked by some people like this. She probably shouldn't have said it the way she did or at all. 

This thread is over anyway. Let it rest or take up with mods in pm.

Thank you. I'm glad that you understood exactly what I meant, and where I was coming from, and I appreciate your taking the time to say so.

[Taximom5]

Originally Posted by slmommy 

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I don't really see the purpose of continuing this. If you have a problem with the way the thread was moderated, take it up with a mod. Maybe this thread should be locked. 

I think that's the purpose of the straw man attack launched at my post. I think they're snarking here on this thread instead of pm-ing or discussing with the moderator in hopes of getting the thread locked.

[Taximom5]

Originally Posted by stik 

This is not the only thread in which it has been asserted that pro-vax posters are not real.  In the thread on the online vaccine class with Paul Offit, Taximom asserted that pro-vax posters were not real people.    

You are deliberately misquoting me.

[Taximom5]

Originally Posted by BeckyBird 

At least you weren't grouped into the same category as people who believed the earth was flat and maggots magically appeared from rotten meat.
Witnessing a vaccine reaction with your eyes is equivalent to dark-age ignorance, I suppose. Now that's a flag-worthy post, but I didn't flag it. It was her opinion, and in this section, she has the permission to express it.

Yes--that was one of the posts (by Stik, I believe) that upset me so much.

[Mosaic]

Originally Posted by Super~Single~Mama 

So those who disagree with you and don't think vaccines are inherently dangerous aren't real mothers? I quoted you saying that people who don't question it aren't real mothers - explain please.
(and really, we all know that if someone pro vax had something similar to what you said, the post would have been removed. I've had people call me worse on this stupid forum and the mods always back up the non/anti vaxer. Non Vaxers can pretty well say whatever they want on this forum and never be reprimanded. Anyone who does vax tho must walk on eggshells to avoid being kicked out.... Wonder if the mods are all required to be anti vax?)

My family vaccinates, and I'm the only dedicated vax mod these days; so feel free to take your concerns to me via PM or to an admin.

Many of you have suggested that this thread has outlived its usefulness, and I agree. The issues and the research are real, however, and you're welcome to continue that discussion on a fresh thread. But the personal comments from both sides just muddy the discussion and aren't getting us anywhere, so this thread is getting locked.