Vaccinations – Autism; A Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Increasingly parents are refusing to vaccinate children making such decisions often based on the ‘advice’ of people who do not have a high-level, medical, scientific background. This group includes people with a background in everything from soft porn to stay-at-home parents who like to read a lot and building engineers with strong maths backgrounds.  Some years ago I trailed along behind a much lauded researcher into SIDS.  Spending this time with him I learnt that whenever a parent discovers that their child has a serious medical problem the natural, very human response is to try to find something or someone to blame.  The truth is, in SIDS, even if it is environmental issues that cause these tragic deaths it is something we do not know how to prevent at the moment.  Big difference between this and a parent who leaves a toddler unattended who then wanders off and drowns in a pool – too late then to say ‘but it was only a minute’, ‘it was an accident’ – no it was not an accident it was neglect!  Parents of children and teens with autism or Asperger’s do not have anything to explain to themselves or to anyone else.  When I began psychological studies a lecturer said ‘what we know about the brain is equivalent to a pin head on a pumpkin’.  This is something that parents and carers must never forget. We do not know what causes autism in any form.  However, we do know that many children die unnecessary from contracting diseases that are easily preventable.  Where I live we have serious problems with whopping cough; dear little babies dieing horrible deaths because someone somewhere did not want to get a vaccination.  Yes, vaccinations have some ingredients which may be highly toxic substances; but then if you ate things like ice cream not that long ago you might have been consuming rat poison and other ‘nasties’.  Do you know that some special margarine type spreads are one molecule away from been paint? Even the traffic fumes in your local area contain deadly toxins. Been for a plane trip lately; a short journey gives you a dose of radiation. Indeed just going out in the sunshine exposes you to radiation.  Is the toilet paper you use bleached, dose your child use bleached toothpaste, do you eat or drink food stuffs from packages – all have ‘toxic’ contents that we do not know what the long term damage to humans is likely to be – we only think we know.   The point is; anyone can read any scientific documents and journals and make what they will out of such information.  To understand this liken it to a person deciding to defend themselves for murder before a court – you can read all the textbooks, look up all the precedent law, and then write a wonderful defence. However, since you have never been in court, do not have legal training and do not have training in justice, court or trial proceedings you will be fighting a hard battle.  Please get your children vaccinated – if you do not and your child contracts something he or she may die; but before they die they may spread that illness.   Do you really want to be responsible for another child’s death?