Okay, I loved Frontline: The Vaccine War. I really fail to see why the anti-vaccine side is offended either, it had plenty of their side. Not really PBS's fault that their side has little scientific evidence to go on. After all, they are the ones who use Jenny McCarthy as an advocate; it is not like PBS picked an obscure person to feature for their side. Seemed to have most of the main players. I don't think anybody was censored, they even had J.B. Handley on with his *lovely* language. (happy they censored the actual language though, I can do without that, thanks)
You can watch Frontline: The Vaccine Wars yourself here:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1479321646/
However....the annoying thing to me is there still IS a vaccine war. Why? We've seen study after study about vaccines and autism: no link. There is only so much money and time for autism research and advocacy. Why are people wasting it on vaccines? So many other issues are pressing: education support, respite, communication devices, sensory issues, safety, faith community inclusion, bullying, and on and on.
Studies all around the world have shown no connection between autism and vaccines. People are dying and getting ill from not having vaccines. From June 3rd, 2007 to April 17th, 2010 there have been 509 vaccine preventable deaths and 57,309 vaccine preventable illnesses. So not only are we wasting autism money and time; we are risking lives.
Please, please, vaccinate your kids, encourage others too. And autism community, stop harping on vaccines, it is NOT an autism community issue!
If you agree, please sign my petition to end the vaccine war within the autism community and move on to more important issues:
End the Vaccine War
(friendly remminder: No hate speech/cursing allowed in comments, that you need to send to my e-mail. Love you anways)
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It is nice to find someone that is concerned about moving forward instead of being mired in quicksand. Enough information about vaccines! Let's spend our energies and money on other pressing issues that will not only help us prevent/cure autism but enhance the lives of people with autism as well.
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