Despite Ben having to work 3 hours late after a long hard day with the kids, I was in a surprisingly good mood tonight. All because of my stint doing laundry in front of the Oprah show in the afternoon. It seems like once in a blue moon that somebody from the "mainstream" agrees with me. It felt like a wave of relief to hear a similar opinion. I think the last few years I've become very quiet in my social life, afraid of any of my "crazy ideas" coming out into the open. All in effort to avoid conflict. So I stay quiet, burdened inside by deep issues.
On this show Jenny McCarthy was discussing her son's autism. I was not looking forward to another politically correct broadcast about this "mysterious" disease. Instead I was thrilled to see a celebrity commit career suicide - by not only revealing a natural cure she believes is dramatically improving his condition, but the trigger she believes started it all - a vaccine. As soon as Oprah said "what Jenny believes triggered her son's condition, after the break," I said out loud "the MMR shot." I was very happy to be right. I've heard so many stories that are all too much the same. A healthy, normal baby... and then some time after 1 year old...
When challenged with the CDC statement that Oprah presented saying the majority of science does not support the vaccine-autism link she said "Evan is my science." She talked about how moms need to stand firm with their convictions and instincts in front of their doctors. Her first drs told her her son was having febrile seizures, or that he had epilepsy. She knew that wasn't right and kept pursuing until she found the best of the best to get his autism diagnosis.
Previously she had had very bad feelings about the MMR shot the day of his 1 year checkup and tried to ask her dr for more information and he made her feel ignorant, she said. "Right before his MMR shot, I said to the doctor, 'I have a very bad feeling about this shot. This is the autism shot, isn't it?' And he said, 'No, that is ridiculous. It is a mother's desperate attempt to blame something,' and he swore at me, and then the nurse gave [Evan] the shot."
In recent years, the number of children diagnosed with autism has risen from 1 in every 500 children to 1 in 150. "What number will it take for people just to start listening to what the mothers of children who have seen autism have been saying for years, which is, 'We vaccinated our baby and something happened."
This is me talking now - Despite the thousands of testimonies out there, the medical community relies on their biased, goal-oriented studies to prove their point. There actually are many studies showing a vaccine correlation with autism but they're picking and choosing for the sake of profit, in the name of public health. How are they even coming up with large enough samples of unvaccinated people to study? I know the Amish have virtually zero cases of autism (an exception is some accidentally vaccinated kids through adoption processes, etc.) Drs use their trusted reputation to present only one option to a mother: "the nurse will be right in with the shots!" They use scare tactics to anyone who questions them. Kids these days receive more vaccines than any generation prior and have more health problems than ever before. (I blame this on artificial foods too, not just vaccines).
The CDC statement actually discussed only a belief that the "thimerosal" (form of mercury) in vaccines is not linked to autism. Yet ironically they called a few years ago for it to be removed from all childhood vaccines. What mothers don't know is that there are still plenty of old vaccines being used up that still contain this. They cannot be thrown out because they are hazardous waste! They can't be in the ground but they can be in our bodies! What the CDC doesn't mention and what most people never discuss is that there are plenty of other nasty ingredients in vaccines that have gone virtually unstudied for their long term effect on our health. I'm disappointed that people have decided it's all about the mercury. Why not formaldehyde, aluminum (both carcinogens!), MSG, dead animal tissue, or the various unplanned contaminations?
What mothers also don't realize is that the federal govt. spends billions of dollars every year compensating families for "vaccine injuries" and that this doesn't include the majority of the instances, where the drs explain away the effect and do not report a child's complication as vaccine related. On the message boards after the show I skimmed a few posts and saw one mother say her son had a seizure and died 2 weeks after the MMR shot. Her son is not going to be in any govt. study. The drs of course refused to document that this was related to the vaccine. SIDS instances are almost never reported as related to vaccines even though almost all cases are within 48 hours of shots. Try to find that in CDC literature!
So maybe it wasn't career suicide...McCarthy does say that she thinks vaccines are good but that they need to do more research and also get a safer vaccine schedule. But I'm confident that since she's opened the door to the world of natural health and treatments she will eventually discover that vaccines only weaken the immune system and that there are better ways to prevent and overcome disease. I believe we are trading mumps and measles for cancer and heart disease. One of my favorite authors on the subject of how vaccines harm our health and suppress our immune system is Dr. Mercola.
http://www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/immune_suppression.htmDISCLAIMER: (for Shayna, so she doesn't get mad at me) The vast majority of people in the medical community have very good intentions.
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