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Originally Posted by Muffin2
i'm not confused. i'm very clear on my thoughts thank you very much. and i am clear on the report, otherwise i wouldn't have mentioned it.
i'm sorry but i thought it was common knowledge that the study (wrongly) suggested the combined vaccine carried a high risk of autism. and so parents naturally went for the separate vaccines, carrying the lower risk (according to the report)
so therefore, my point was if the vaccines where to become compulsory, parents may perhaps be more comfortable with the idea of separate vaccines instead of the combined one. regardless of the fact the report has had all support withdrawn.
if you don't understand now i'm sorry, i've tried to explain in a multitude of different ways.
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Have you actually read the article? I do wonder, by the way you talk of it it does sound very much as though you're vaguely aware of some media hype but not of the actual paper. It's available at
ScienceDirect - The Lancet : Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children (if you have Athens!)
If you read the article carefully, you'll see that the abdominal complaints as well as various psychological disturbances (not just Autism) were linked by the authors not only to MMR, but to single measles vaccines, single rubella vaccines and to actual measles infection.
I don't claim to know much about this area of medicine other than what I've seen in the media, or in secondary medical sources, which is why I don't make that many claims about it. I think you should adopt a similar approach.
Or, perhaps, if you have read the paper, you'd be kind enough to give us a line by line critique explaining exactly why it is you believe it to be flawed? I would be genuinely interested, as whilst I do know of some of the ethically dodgy things which went on during sample selection (which, funnily enough, aren't mentioned in the paper), I've never heard a clear and unbiased account of why the actual research (or its interpretation) is flawed. As such an expert, I'm sure you could enlighten me!