The Voice of Heard/Overdose of Emotion
by wcca - October 20, 2008 12:10pm
A few weeks ago, I have read a few articles discussing the debate of autism and vaccination. To be more specific, an article about a mother whose son had died supposedly from vaccine shots and how that story is being told in a book titled Mother Warriors by Jenny McCarthy, a celebrity whose own son has autism. Mothers such as these believe that thimerosal, an inorganic mercury compound used in vaccines, cause autism. That belief had been debunked by the medical community. But there are still protests calling the medical and political systems’ handling of the autism-vaccine issue "tobacco science".
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-06-20.html
This article discusses the whole science debate of the supposed link to the rise of autism and vaccines.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20080929/NEWS/809290386/1012
This is the article I have read that led me to consider writing this blog entry.
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/wire/sns-ap-flu-shot-fight,0,3679586.story
This article covers against a recent protest decrying a New Jersey policy that requires children to get vaccinated in order to enter preschool.
The whole issue of autism is a serious emotional one for parents everywhere. They are all desperate to find the cause of autism. If we end up persuading the officials to regulate the medical establishment with too much emotion, we are bound to be doing more harm than good for our children. Therefore, in order to understand the causes of autism, we should do so in the most logical way possible. The first step is to allow qualified scientists, who are doing the research on autism, to find the causes.