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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Lilly I watched my father die an agonising death with terminal lung cancer......I have five brothers, all of them smoked at the time and vowed after seeing dad die in this way, to give up the cigarettes.
How many do you think actually managed it? NONE!
I am not against vaccination for measles, but I am against the MMR.......Parents who are really worried about their children getting measles should be able to access the single vaccine more easily....and for the government to pretend they care about the health of children is laughable.....if they did care they would reinstate the single vaccine once they saw that parents were genuinely worried about the effects of MMR on some children.....the fact that the research may be flawed doesn't reassure parents at all.
How often do we see research articles one week which say one thing, and then a few weeks later the research article says quite the opposite?
I distrust government information, and I distrust research articles because I know that some researchers will bias their findings to prove what they want to prove.... a bit like statistics really, how they are portrayed can make a lot of difference.
I am just glad that I have no young babies and am not now likely to have any.
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Got to agree with you about the pictures, Margaret. I've known people who have died of lung cancer but their relatives keep smoking. Regarding the vaccine, of course all parents want to do their best for their children and would not want them to have a vaccine that could do more harm than good. This is what annoys me though, there was never any proof that MMR caused autism. It was just whipped up in the papers and a media panic followed and made parents unneccesarily wary of the vaccine. Now we're getting a rise in measles cases which actually can cause serious harm. Like Lettie said, the silly beggars are now saying too many scans cause autism. Will we be stopping those then?
I don't think they do know what causes autism but if your child has it then you would naturally look for something to blame. I think that the MMR got the blame because the signs of autism aren't so noticeable until the child is 18 months old which is also the age the child has the MMR so people might jump to the conclusion that MMR was the cause when it wasn't.