Posted on 02/04/2015 4:47:58 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
The Four Corners of Deceit Strike: Autism/Vaccine Study was a Hoax
RUSH: And two more frauds have been uncovered, ladies and gentlemen, both along the lines of the global warming fraud and hoax. How many of you have been persuaded to believe that vaccines have caused autism? Do you believe it? It's all a fraud. It's all a lie. "Study tying vaccine to autism was fraud, report says. Andrew Wakefield, colleagues altered facts about patients in their research, analysis shows." This is not some kooky blog that you've never heard of. It's AP, it's PMSNBC. "The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research. The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew --" and, by the way, these are the same people that write your political news every day. These are the same people that tell you what's going on with spending, the Obamacare repeal, the deficit, and all this rotgut. This pretty much typifies 90% of the crap that's in the media these days. The Center for Science in the Public Interest and all the death and destruction that's gonna come if you eat pork fried rice, for example.
"The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues were renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet, where it was published. Still, the suggestion the MMR shot was connected to autism spooked parents worldwide and immunization rates for measles, mumps and rubella have never fully recovered." Can I say Rachel Carlson? How about banning DDT and the jump in malaria all over the world? Another hoax, another fraud brought to you by nanny state liberals. "The analysis, by British journalist Brian Deer, found that despite the claim in Wakefield's paper that the 12 children studied --" 12 children led to a worldwide belief in a fraud. "-- 12 children studied were normal until they had the MMR shot, five had previously documented developmental problems. Deer also found that all the cases were somehow misrepresented when he compared data from medical records and the children's parents."
It's an elaborate fraud, and there's a second one to tell you about today. "'Great Garbage Patch' in the Pacific Ocean Not So Great Claim Scientists -- Environmental scientists have been criticised for exaggerating the size of an 'island' of plastic waste said to be swirling around in the Pacific Ocean after a study finds that it is 200 times smaller than claimed." So the Four Corners of Deceit: science, medicine, politics, journalism, news, you name it, continue unabated. They are eventually uncovered but look at the damage they have caused.
How many years have you gone through life assuming you know everything?
Autism was never heard of in the thirties any more than the term “left wing” was. Like I said before - give it up! You just absolutely refuse to accept that not vaccinating is a personal choice which has nothing to do with modern day scares!
I’m retired and I don’t know about you but I would suggest that you go to work or if you don’t work - do us all a favor and get a job!
I probably started listening to Rush long before you knew he existed. I go back to Sacramento with his program. How about you? Do I accept blindly everything he says? Nope - can’t say that I do. Do I need him to give me my talking points? Nope!
I see you’re all of 35 years old. That’s a wealth of experience you’re speaking from there.
I’m double that age and more so I think I can honestly say I’ve seen more/heard more/experienced more and haven’t gone through those 70+ years believing or even pretending I had all the right answers. I know what I believe and I don’t need anyone telling me that what I believe is wrong. You might try it sometime. It’s like trying to argue with someone who has a different opinion - it can’t be done! Or as someone on FOX said the other night - “Don’t argue with a stupid person. They’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
Now that I know I’m conversing with a juvenile, I give up on you!
I don't assume I know everything. I trust scientific and medical evidence when it shows that something is 100% false, as are your claims.
I’m retired and I don’t know about you but I would suggest that you go to work or if you don’t work - do us all a favor and get a job!
I'm in good shape on employment, thanks.
Do I accept blindly everything he says?
Rush accepts scientific and medical evidence and consults experts when it's a highly technical or scientific subject, whereas you seem to trust folklore.
You're quite an igoramus for being an old timer. I would suggest you pick up a medical journal, talk to a pediatrician, and stop believing in things that have no evidence to back them up. You might actually try learning what actually constitutes evidence.
And yet you're repeating claims that have been refuted, and spreading false information. Why is it that your life experience hasn't kept up with what medical science says? Do you still practice bleeding, or take snake oil to cure what ails ya?
I know what I believe and I don’t need anyone telling me that what I believe is wrong.
That's called being ignorant and stubborn, and those two traits obviously explain why you still believe in disproved theories after 70 years.
My lovely grandmother is in her 80s, but she doesn't know how to use a computer. Asking you for medical advice on vaccines would be like asking her how to write a BIOS, considering the depth of your ignorance on the subject, even from a layman's point of view.
I give up on you!
When presented with facts that disprove your worldview, that would be wise. Your retired years would be much better spent than trying to convince anonymous people on the Internet that you know things you clearly don't.
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