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American Academy of Pediatrics questions autism data

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:56:00 +0000

By Sheilah DowneyA study published today in Pediatrics stating that autism rates are affecting 1 in 91 children is raising alarm bells throughout the nation,

Paul

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:48:40 +0000

The only studies vindicating vaccines for their role in the autism explosion are statistical manipulations done by people associated with the vaccine program. A good example of how this is done can be found by reading, "Dissecting a Thimerosal Study". To find the article just Google those words. The AAP is nothing but a bunch of corrupt, spineless, lying cowards!

Hank

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:19:52 +0000

How convenient to throw out a 2007 study in favor of a 2002 based numbers study when it favors your opinion!

I agree with PAUL!

Sara

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:49:46 +0000

The numbers are only going to get worse. Denial isn't going to help these children.

Patty

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:38:45 +0000

"Approximately 38 percent of the children who were diagnosed with autism were reported to no longer have the diagnosis."

Autism is treatable as long as you work with a Doctor who is not a member of the AAP. All the successful treatments have been developed by dedicated parents. The AAP's work has been nothing more than putting up hurdles so these kids stay sick. Autistic children are nothing more than little profit centers for the AAP which is nothing but a front group for vaccine companies. Don't believe me? Check out where they get 90% of their funding by going to their own website.

Pediatrician

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:55:37 +0000

Immunizations have practically eliminated Haemophilus influenzae b and pneumococcal invasive infections, which were the main causes of meningitis when I was a pediatric resident in the 70s. Pediatric researchers and epidemiologists soon after identified sleeping prone as a risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome, and aspirin for Reye syndrome. Between the elimination of aspirin for children, and childhood vaccination for influenza and chickenpox, Reye syndrome has disappeared from the US. When I returned to hospital medicine as a fellow in 2000, none of the pediatric residents who were training had ever seen a case any of these horrible diseases that used to kill so many children in the 1970s. Native Americans, who were among the most impacted by these and other deadly diseases, such as hepatitis B and A, now have the same vanishingly low risk as others in this country. The only data that suggest that vaccines are associated with autism are ecologic fallacies that link the increase in diagnosis of autism, a considerable portion of which is increased reporting/recognition, to increased vaccine use. I can't believe that people can be so ignorant as to say that vaccines are in the net primarily harmful, or that AAP is "nothing but a front group for vaccine companies." The regulation of vaccines is an FDA responsibility. AAP, ACIP, CDC and others are advisory... and there is considerable evidence that vaccines, on the whole, continue to greatly reduce mortality among children in the US.

theresa

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:03:46 +0000

How inconvenient for those who profit from the over-victimization of autism. The AAP has rightfully concluded that the recent 1-in-91 study is INDEED flawed as it's source was JUST the parents of the child and not the caregivers as well. The other respondents above are simply mad because it doesn't further their exploitive efforts.