I am sure I heard a collective gasp tonight around 6:30 PM.
I was listening to ABC News when all of a sudden there was a story about the CDC, how they just completed a study that concludes that there is no link to any danger of thimerosol. WHAT? And, to add insult to injury, they then said that it was a mistake to take it out of the shots.
Are you kidding me? If you are not outraged by this, I don't know what to say. In fact, I'm practically speechless.
I will eagerly be tuning into the Rescue Post in the morning to see what J.B Handley has to say about this. There was also a tiny mention about the fact that, of the 19 symptoms studied, none were specifically typical of autism. (This makes absolutely no sense to me when the parents of autistic children have been the loudest to complain about the thimerosol). The CDC also said they are doing a "new" study to address those issues specific to autism. Finally they are going to look at autism specifically and it was just mentioned as a postscript?
The timing is interesting, isn't it? It comes on the heels of the interview of Jenny McCarthy - first on Oprah, then Good Morning America, The View, and tonight, Larry King. Also, she and her son's faces are now plastered on the cover of People.
You can read the story here. I have to go sit down.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Germs/story?id=3655803&page=1
3 comments:
I saw that headline on the Internet. The good news is that so many of my friends who are new moms are being very cautious...regardless of what the "media" and "studies" are saying.
Well, that is one thing that is good about people like Jenny speaking out. I think the safe schedule approach is the best..you just have to find the doctor with the safe schedule!
I recieved an email that showed an article of the things the study left out. There were no children with Autism in the study and any "vunerable" children (birth weight lower than 5lbs 8oz)were excluded.
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