TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: vaccines

  • Amanda Peet speaks out for vaccination with backup

    Defending Vaccines: Actress Dispels Link To Autism:

    My newfound respect for Amanda Peet keeps increasing.

    Instead of spreading fear and junk science about vaccinations like Jenny McCarthy, Amanda Peet us speaking out in favor of vaccinating children and actually has a prominent doctor backing her up.

    After her baby was born in early 2007, she decided to speak out publicly. Since then, she’s been advocating vaccination through interviews, talk show appearances, and public service announcements.

    But Peet says parents shouldn’t look to her as a scientific expert. She defers scientific questions to Offit, who directs the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital.

    And who does Jenny McCarthy have backing up her ridiculous claims?

    *crickets*

    That’s what I thought.

  • Are Vaccinations Causing Early Alzheimer’s Disease?

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    How about no?

    So do you anti-vaccine fear mongers admit that you lost the battle over Autism and now you’re claiming Alzheimer’s?

    I’m usually not one to laud celebrities but Amanda Peet was right. You people are parasites.

  • Some Miss. parents home-schooling kids to avoid vaccinations

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    Debra Barnes has a thriving chiropractic practice in the Jackson metro area, a nice home and family members who love living in the South.

    But she said she would leave Mississippi in a heartbeat if state health officials tried to force her home-schooled children to be immunized.

    Barnes is part of a growing network of parents whose decision to home school their children rests on their belief that mandated vaccinations for public and private school children are a dangerous overreach by state governments.

    While the mainstream scientific community maintains childhood vaccines are safe, Barnes relies on the work of apostate scientists who argue immunizations can bring on autism or weaken the natural immunities of children.

    Barnes leads a group of about 200 parents around the state who have problems with Mississippi’s mandated vaccination schedule.

    Emphasis mine.

    What? You expected a fake doctor to believe real doctors and scientists?

  • NJ flu-shot mandate for preschoolers draws outcry

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    As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that children get a flu shot in order to attend preschools and day-care centers. The decision should be the parents’, not the state’s, they contend.

    “This is not an anti-vaccine rally — it’s a freedom of choice rally,” said one of the organizers, Louise Habakus. “This one-size-fits-all approach is really very anti-American.”

    Yet check out the sign…

    This wasn’t a freedom of choice rally, it was a junk science rally. I applaud New Jersey for trying to prevent a pandemic. Personally, if I ran a daycare I’d say no vaccine no daycare.

  • Jenny McCarthy Slams Amanda Peet Over Vaccines

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    LOS ANGELES — Actress and new mom Amanda Peet referred to parents who choose not to vaccinate their children as “parasites” in a recent interview. But despite her public apology aimed at parents of autistic children who believe that vaccines may have caused the illness, Jenny McCarthy hasn’t forgiven or forgotten.

    “She (Peet) has a lot of [nerve] to come forward and be on that side, because there is an angry mob on my side, and I like the fact that I can say she’s completely wrong,” McCarthy (whose 6-year-old son has autism) tells the upcoming issue of Spectrum magazine, which hits stands Wednesday.

    If I was Amanda Peet I would not only have not apologized I would have called her ignorant, misinformed, a Luddite, and a fearmonger as well.

  • Public needs to know vaccines are safe, docs say


    Public needs to know vaccines are safe, docs say – Yahoo! News

    A new coalition of 22 major medical groups says public confidence in vaccine safety needs to be restored to avoid risks for deadly disease outbreaks.

    Thursday’s message comes from the Chicago-based American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and 20 more of the nation’s most influential health-related groups.

    It’s not public confidence. It’s an ignorant and very loud minority that would rather have an epidemic happen than have an unproven side effect of the vaccine happen to their precious little snowflakes.

  • No Connection Between Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) Vaccine And Autism, Study Suggests

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    We found no relationship between the timing of MMR vaccine and the onset of either GI complaints or autism.”

    Not that this will convince the Luddites of anything. They’d rather have their kids die of infectious diseases than embrace current scientific data. As much as I feel for kids with autism a lot of their misinformed parents have elevated it to almost a zealous religion of sorts.

  • Vaccine refusals fuel measles outbreak

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    Parents refusing to have their children vaccinated against measles have helped drive cases of the illness to their worst levels in a dozen years in the United States, health officials reported on Thursday.

    Only 13 percent of the cases were imported, the CDC said, naming Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, India, Israel, China, Germany, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Russia. “This is the lowest percentage of imported measles cases since 1996,” the CDC report reads.

    “Of the 95 patients eligible for vaccination, 63 were unvaccinated because of their or their parents’ philosophical or religious beliefs,” the CDC said.

    Some religious groups refuse vaccination but many parents have fears that vaccines are unsafe or may cause conditions such as autism — fears the CDC says are unfounded.

    Stop being asshats. This is the 21st century, not the dark ages. Vaccines do not cause autism and God would prefer it if your kids didn’t die from measles.

  • Parents may be jailed over vaccinations

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    Calm down conspiracy-minded autism fearing parents. This is in Belgium. But if it did happen in the states I wouldn’t mind. Then we could wipe out the childhood diseases that we already wiped out once.

  • Study: Number of ‘Misleading’ Anti-Vaccination Videos on YouTube Growing

    Study: Number of ‘Misleading’ Anti-Vaccination Videos on YouTube Growing

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    This is why childhood diseases that, we thought, were wiped out are making a comeback. Some tin foil hatters who buy into the unproven alleged link to autism and various other crackpot theories post this crap on the web and then get other stupid people to buy into it.