Thursday July 17, 2008
Vaccinate the kids
Apparently the anti-vaccination celebrity crowd has a celebrity opponent: Amanda Peet.And it's high damn time. This nonsense about vaccines causing autism is getting out of hand. Studies find that the link all these anti-vaccination celebrities and fear-mongering parents on television claim exists between vaccines and autism is bogus.
More importantly, who the hell are you kidding? Are you going to believe a bunch of Hollywood celebrities -- the same Hollywood that produced Tom Cruise jumping up and down on Oprah's couch and all the other Scientologists who claim several psychiatric treatments for severe psychological problems don't work -- and a few parents on the TV claiming that a vaccine causes autism or doctors and researchers who study autism?
Autism, if I remember, is also something of a spectrum disorder, so you probably know some very mildly autistic people (I do not stand by this as absolute fact -- this is from conversations with a friend with an autistic brother, who [my friend] is very involved in the North Carolina autism foundation).
And here's the bottom line: would you rather have an autistic child or a dead child?
Posted by pdmccaul [Random News] ( July 17, 2008 05:16 PM ) Permalink | Comments[2]
Autism is a spectrum disorder.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) refers to a group of developmental disabilities?including classic autism, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), and Asperger?s Syndrome?that affect a person?s ability to understand what they see, hear, and otherwise sense. It is a brain disorder that impacts communication, social interaction, and behavior. Individuals with ASD typically have difficulty understanding verbal and nonverbal communication and learning appropriate ways of relating to other people, objects, and events. No two people with ASD are the same. As its name implies, ASD is a spectrum disorder that affects individuals differently and with varying degrees of severity. Additionally, ASD is often found in combination with other disabilities.
PS-your friend sounds amazing :D
Posted by Negrodamos on July 18, 2008 at 04:07 PM EDT #
Autism is a spectrum disorder.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) refers to a group of developmental disabilities?including classic autism, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), and Asperger?s Syndrome?that affect a person?s ability to understand what they see, hear, and otherwise sense. It is a brain disorder that impacts communication, social interaction, and behavior. Individuals with ASD typically have difficulty understanding verbal and nonverbal communication and learning appropriate ways of relating to other people, objects, and events. No two people with ASD are the same. As its name implies, ASD is a spectrum disorder that affects individuals differently and with varying degrees of severity. Additionally, ASD is often found in combination with other disabilities.
PS-your friend sounds amazing :D
Posted by scott on July 18, 2008 at 04:09 PM EDT #