Lancaster County Amish vaccination rates have increased from 20% to 75& since the CSC opened. Why isn’t there an explosion in autism among the Old Order Amish? Even that tireless medical investigator Dan Olmsted hasn’t seen that.

Let the false indignation begin!

Look here

http://epiwonk.com/?p=55#comments

first of a series of posts by a retired epidemiologist (and journal editor) critiquing the Young, Geier & Geier paper.

I don’t know if the authors were attempting to speak for the steering committee, so we’re left to judge these remarks as they stand, for what that’s worth. There was no separate remark from the steering committee, in any event.

And Young’s work as a consultant was mentioned in the release and so I duly noted that as well. I can’t speak to how that may, or may not, have affected the way the study was conducted, specifically, though.

If there are any specific issues, I can reach out to the study authors to see if they would respond on the site, but of course, I can’t guarantee any of them would do so.

Cheers
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“What you are about to read is a medical review about a tragedy unequalled in the annals of history.”

http://www.thenhf.com/articles_45.htm

I don’t know if Doctors Without Borders have some financial interest in giving their view. Given the work they do, I doubt it.

‘Dr. Boyd Haley is a professor and chair of the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. In this interview, Dr. Haley discusses mercury toxicity as a causal factor in Autism. He also discusses the two primary sources of mercury toxicity: vaccines & dental amalgams.’

I’m no scientist, but I did learn in school chemistry classes that mercury was one of the most deadly metals on the planet. So I’m open to the idea that putting a bit of it in vaccines given to kids with developing brains is likely to cause damage and on that topic the question arises whether deadly metal poisoning can ever be ‘better’ than measles and mumps?

appears to be saying that thimerosal/mercury is still in some vaccines because there was no recall of existing stocks when the drug industry stopped adding it to their vaccines.