I skimmed these and the NYT article and couldn't find it, but are there any stats showing the increase in whooping cough deaths (or the occurrence of any other diseases that show an increase since everybody panicked about vaccines)?
Also, if I know my vaccine deniers, I'm going to guess that they will just attribute this to part of the whole anti-Wakefield cabal. xp yup that is it exactly.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 6 January 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
The CNN article says:
"In the United States, more cases of measles were reported in 2008 than in any other year since 1997, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 90% of those infected had not been vaccinated or their vaccination status was unknown, the CDC reported."
I'd guess you'd have to dig through the CDC website to find the details.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 January 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
anderson cooper mentions whooping cough increase in this vid but can't remember what he said
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/05/retracted-autism-study-an-elaborate-fraud-british-journal-finds/
― nanoflymo (ledge), Thursday, 6 January 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a conspiracy to discredit the truth, organized by Big Pharma!
This is exactly what they say. The comments on any article debunking the link between vaccines and autism always parrot this line.
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Thursday, 6 January 2011 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
What, you don't think they'd do that? You don't think they're that powerful? THINK AGAIN
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 January 2011 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
etc
I know people will believe any old stupid thing for any old stupid reason, but I don't get why they're so attached to the notion that vaccines are evil. That scared of needles?
― Young Guns aside, the western is not my favorite genre. (latebloomer), Thursday, 6 January 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Because they are parents who have kids with problems. Which creates anxiety. To put a lid on their anxiety, they need something to blame it on. And they think they have found it. If you take that away from them you take the lid off the cauldron.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
never believed that shit anyways. we were all vaccinated, ate peanut butter, slept on our stomach and we are all fine? well minus a few issues.
― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
all of us who didn't die are fine
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
haha.
― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
cole slept on his stomach from week one on, never had issues. he was miserable on his back.
This is insightful. I totally missed that bit from the CNN article, too, so thanks!
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The _Denialism_ book goes on at lengths about this. You have a horrifying, horrifying condition that no one understands and the affected kid never comes out of, so you grasp at anything for a cause.
Also, you can tell when you're in for real fun when cascade logic gets used. Evidence of disproof is inverted to show "they're all in on it, maaan."
Take yer pick of subjects: 9/11, climate change, evolution, chemtrails, gm food, floridation, obama, etc. Because these are subjects so lofty and disconnected from our daily existence, we have to rely on others for veracity. You cant trust empiric reality anymore because the means to verify claims are out of reach of all but a very select few.
And it's not helped when authority figures and those who do know deliberately bullshit us. Tuskegee airmen experiment, the Tillman death, Merck sales reps being told to lie and downplay any connection Vioxx had to heart issues, oil and cigarette companies paying off science-types to "create doubt," etc.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, and cascade logic are reasons why no one can be convinced of anything anymore.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh god, I almost got into a facebook wall clusterfuck about confirmation bias with a friend who was convinced that her store-purchased bread was bad because wildlife wouldn't eat it. She started up with the "what about this mcdonald's hamburger that looked the same after a year" thing.
Pretty sure she also had vaccination reservations.
― mh, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
store-purchased bread IS bad though.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
It's bananas that a study based on only 12 non-random subjects got so much traction in the first place. This seriously makes me doubt the Lancet's bona fides.
― kate78, Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Because the idea of injecting someone with germs to keep them from getting sick defies common sense. Which is one reason why I don't believe in common sense.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Where does Jenny McCarthy stand on shampoos with tea tree oil, which may or may not make men sprout breasts, according to one dubious study? Huh? HUH?!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
no wonder why i have man tits.
― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
nah, that's just the soy, man.
― mh, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Both of which may be just a way to scare people into thinking that using nice shampoos and eating soy stuff will turn you into a girlyman.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
soy does fuck with the hormones of males, though it requires very large amounts to do so (i.e. an entirely soy-based diet).
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://john.kism.com/files/2009/08/vera-de-milo.jpg
They did end up breaking up, so I'm guessing she doesn't like them.
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
zing
Antivaccinationists tend toward complete mistrust of government and manufacturers, conspiratorial thinking, denialism, low cognitive complexity in thinking patterns, reasoning flaws, and a habit of substituting emotional anecdotes for data
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1010594
― nanoflymo (ledge), Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Can anyone link through to the Andrew Wakefield magazine piece in the Times?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/magazine/mag-24Autism-t.html
― mh, Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Michelle Guppy, the coordinator of the Houston Autism Disability Network
Why oh why does life so often pitch us hanging curveballs like this?
― Paul McCartney and Whigs (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Can someone link the MoJo article that Chris Mooney did?
Y'all should read it.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
God, Wakefield is an all-time jackass. I'm incredibly perturbed to find out that he's become an Austin resident. There's a not insignificant number of parents around here who have bought in to his nonsense. It drives me up the wall!
― Moodles, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
“To our community, Andrew Wakefield is Nelson Mandela and Jesus Christ rolled up into one,” says J. B. Handley, co-founder of Generation Rescue, a group that disputes vaccine safety. “He’s a symbol of how all of us feel.”
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
scary
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
What has become increasingly clear to Insel is that something is to blame. Some environmental factor is, or many environmental factors are, interacting with certain gene types, yielding who knows how many different pathways to the same disease. And although many parents think they know with instinctual certainty what that factor was in their own child, researchers “haven’t found anything that looks like a smoking gun,” Insel says. To him, the M.M.R. vaccine, so aggressively studied since the media splash following Wakefield’s 1998 paper, is one of the few factors that can be been ruled out. But could it be aspartame? UV rays? Elmo? No one knows.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
well that last part is right, isn't it
xps
― goole, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://awesomeappliques.com/zc-commerce/images/elmo.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
would definitely be down for an anti-elmo movement
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ah, here we are, check this:
The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/denial-science-chris-mooney
How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and the vaccine-autism link.
— By Chris Mooney
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
They can make a special toy for autistic kids: "Ignore Me Elmo."
― Paul McCartney and Whigs (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point." - Leon Festinger
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
my brother and his wife haven't vaccinated their kids, and it's so tough. i just don't even talk to them about it...
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
You...also don't take your kids to play there?
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
no, we do! i don't know, it's weird, they have a whole circle of people around them who don't vaccinate.
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess if your kids are vacc'ed then technically they're prob safe but a whole circle of little germy breeding grounds who aren't vacc'ed seems like a petri dish for the re-introduction of scarlet fever or something.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that's what we figure. they go to a waldorf school -- i dunno if being anti-vaccine goes along with waldorf necessarily, but it seems to attract anti-vacciners. i dunno, my brother and his wife are very sensible people in a lot of regards ... just not this one!
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno if being anti-vaccine goes along with waldorf necessarily
― kate78, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, don't Waldorf schools teach all kinds of mystical "science"?
I don't get how these schools have become prestigious, the sound really cultish to me.
― Moodles, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
they sound...
“To our community, Andrew Wakefield is Nelson Mandela and Jesus Christ rolled up into one,” says J. B. Handley, co-founder of Generation Rescue, a group that disputes vaccine safety
TS: Generation Rescue vs. Operation Rescue
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Inoculations that make you irrationally angry
― Moodles, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link