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[[2015
July vid] Dr Andrew Wakefield - America has been sold out.
Jan 2010 Update: Read
Silenced Witnesses Volume
II: The Parents' Story for some parent anecdotes that will tell you MMR
causes autism and bowel disease. Then you will know why 'anecdotes don't
count.'
'Just an anecdote' is a classic
medical industry
Rationalization,
unless it is one supporting their beliefs, beloved of
pharma trolls. You can see how Pharma
controlled
Wikipedia downplays anecdotes in
Vaccine Injury Anecdotes Are No Joke by Sandy
Gottstein. There must be thousands of parent
'anecdotes' linking MMR to autism (5,000 cases in the US Courts) yet the vaccinators say
'anecdotes don't
count'. To quote Mandy Rice Taylor "they would say that wouldn't they."
In a real world those experiences and observations would have caused the vaccine
to be withdrawn years ago, and the victims compensated, but when you are in
power you can make the rules, in this case: 'anecdotes don't count', and get
everyone to believe it. They are doing their best to suppress the
truth (favourite method so far is submerging that with junk science in the form
of
Epidemiology studies. Only a handful of
scientists are studying the children and they have no connection to the
government or medical industry. The medical industry is never going to
fund real studies, for obvious reasons, so thousands You can see the game by observing a very anonymous
(he doesn't want identifying at all) medical editor linking the
Logical Fallacy page
[ref]
to the Anecdote page.]
See:
Analogy madness
[2013 April] Vaccine
Injury Anecdotes Are No Joke by Sandy Gottstein
Cawadias (1953) has said that "the history of medicine has
shown that, whenever medicine has strayed from clinical observation, the result has been
chaos, stagnation, and disaster."--British Medical Journal, Oct 8th, 1955, p.867
(Quoted in Clinical Medical Discoveries by Beddow Bayly)
''Torch's
report provoked an uproar in the American Academy of Pediatrics. At a hastily
arranged press conference he was soundly chastised for using "anecdotal data,"
meaning (will you believe it?) that he actually interviewed the families concerned! This
mistake was not made again. Gerald M. Fenichel, MD, chairman of the Department of
Neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in 1983 published an article on
vaccinations entitled "the danger of case reports," and the pro-vaccination
literature produced in profusion in later years and decades has generally steered away
from and around any such thing as a "case report." These researchers will
examine with minute precision hospital card files, medicare cover sheets, even physicians'
records, but God preserve us from contact with the children themselves or their families!
Another sign of the hardening official position was a two-part article by Daniel Shannon,
M.D., in a 1982 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Shannon was Director of the
Pediatric Pulmonary Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a "principal
investigator" of SIDS.''
SIDS and Seizures by Harris L.
Coulter, PhD
Doctors may notice that their patients don’t seem to fare as well
with certain treatments as the literature would lead them to expect, but
the field is appropriately conditioned to subjugate such anecdotal
evidence to study findings. Yet much, perhaps even most, of what
doctors do has never been formally put to the test in credible studies,
given that the need to do so became obvious to the field only in the
1990s, leaving it playing catch-up with a century or more of
non-evidence-based medicine, and contributing to Ioannidis’s shockingly
high estimate of the degree to which medical knowledge is flawed. That
we’re not routinely made seriously ill by this shortfall, he argues, is
due largely to the fact that most medical interventions and advice don’t
address life-and-death situations, but rather aim to leave us marginally
healthier or less unhealthy, so we usually neither gain nor risk all
that much. [2010 Nov] Lies,
Damned Lies, and Medical Science
I asked how he got involved. He told me his daughter got the MMR, came down
immediately with a 103-degree fever and regressed forthwith into autism.
"It's like someone took out her good brain and replaced it with a bad
brain," he said. It was that immediate.
I had another conversation with the mother of fraternal twins who told me
this story: Both sons were scheduled to get two shots -- the MMR and another
vaccination -- on the same day at the same office visit.
But -- oops -- the healthcare worker gave the first child two MMR shots,
not the MMR and the second vaccine. That child soon developed autism; the second
one didn't.
And I spoke recently with a Texas man whose son got the MMR in 1993; the
injection site swelled up to the size of his father's fist; he had seizures at
the dinner table that night, and within days was spinning, flapping, chewing
wood and not talking ever again.
You get the picture. "Anecdotal evidence." But you have to wonder how many
of these stories -- one is tempted to say, bodies -- must pile up before the
medical authorities go back and take a fresh look at the issue.
This blithe disregard for case histories -- for what parents, the supposed
bedrock of our "family-friendly" society, say -- is one of the most appalling
features of the current climate surrounding autism research. In fact, Sen.
Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., has talked publicly of forcing the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, which sets the childhood immunization schedule
and stoutly rejects a link with autism, to actually go out and interview some of
these parents.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20060612-023341-6204r.htm
The Minnesota Somali Autism Study: That and a dollar will buy you a hot dog.
After the briefing I spoke with Judy Punyko about where the comment
regarding 25% to 30% of educational diagnosis not qualifying for medical
diagnosis came from. As she had admitted that it was actually opinion, I asked
her why the MDH gets to use anecdotal observation as a basis for denial of the
actual increase in rates among Somali children. I said when parents use
observations of what happened to our children, like developing autism after
vaccinations, we get attacked. I explained it was inappropriate for the MDH to
use those percentages from now on and urged her to discontinue its use. She
looked at me with the stone cold face equal only to a cat responding to an order
to get off the kitchen counter. It was like I never mentioned it at all.
The simple fact that 1 in 41
nine year old boys in Minnesota have enough developmental deficits to qualify
them for autism services should scare the hell out of everybody.
Examples
Oh, and some anecdotal data of my own. I also have
mercury fillings, with no apparent health
repercussions. My mother, however, had hers removed
because she'd read they could result in symptoms of
multiple sclerosis (which she has). No improvement
resulted. So, score 1 for no harm from my fillings,
and another for "mercury doesn't cause MS." Aren't
anecdotes fun? :
Tara
C. Smith
"The plural of anecdote is not data."--Putz the pharma shill
"Case studies are anecdotes. Nice try.....These are anecdotes.
DUH. Not data."--Putz the pharma shill
As far as I can ascertain there is no supported
research that proves mmr causes autism. All the people that
supported the original research have retracted their support and the research
has proved to be seriously flawed. Everything else is anecdotal.
