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Re:Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No ... by sam36 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @12:28PM (#21127324)
Hi, anti-vaxxer here. It's never really been about "the mercury". Its about having a perfectly normal child that suddenly "regresses" after shots, be it through autism, sudden seizures, new allergies, or even death.

Don't take my word for it, the inserts themselves state most of the risks[0] from death all the way to shedding live bio-engineered virus onto the immunocompromised (so much for that argument). Plus part of the deal that the government had after removing vaccine manufactures for any liability for injury or deaths was to have a "database" of reported injuries for the public to analyze the safety for themselves[1]

So you see, we are not crazy, we are people that have children and we research what we believe is best for them. Following one's conscious is a one of the ideas allowed by our founding fathers. This image sums it up best: https://i.imgur.com/PdsJLLD.png

[0]:https://vaccine.guide/

[1]: https://tinyurl.com/y6ap37qo

Re:Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No ... by driverdan on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:18PM (#21128805)
Correlation is not causation. There is not a single shred of credible evidence to support causation.
Re:Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No ... by gus_massa on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:16PM (#21128768)
About the last image you linked: Even if you agree that the parents can make (wrong) decisions that put their kids at risks avoiding vaccines, it doesn't force you to make the same decisions. So what is your reason to not vaccinate your children?

(Moreover, if some people is not vaccinating their children, it makes me more alert not to skip/delay the vaccines of my children.)

(It's a problem for the children that can't get the vaccines for medical reasons.)

About the last link [1]: Note that there are 400 cases in 40 years, so it's like 10 case per year. Probably the trip to the hospital and back is more dangerous. Also, the first case looks like a sepsis that is almost surely not related to the vaccine. The last one in the page says that the diagnosis was "H. Influenza meningitis;" that is unrelated to the vaccine. Some other cases are not so clear or have previous illness. Some look like an allergic reaction that perhaps may be caused by the vaccine, but I only look at them for a few seconds and I'm not a medical doctor. Do you have a link to a list of cases that are filtered to exclude the cases that are obviously not caused by the vaccine?

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Re:Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No ... by gus_massa on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:17PM (#21130762)
The last one is not an announcement of the FDA or a conclusion of the FDA. It's the brochure of a vaccine made by the manufacter. The table 2 to table 9 have the confirmed side effects. The part about autism is in a list of unreliable reports of symptoms:

> Adverse events reported during post-approval use of Tripedia vaccine include idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, SIDS, anaphylactic reaction, cellulitis, autism, convulsion/grand mal convulsion, encephalopathy, hypotonia, neuropathy, somnolence and apnea. Events were included in this list because of the seriousness or frequency of reporting. Because these events are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequencies or to establish a causal relationship to components of Tripedia vaccine.2

Re:Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No ... by TacticalTable on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:42PM (#21128284)
This is anecdotal scaremongering. There is no correlation between vaccines and any of the side-effects you've claimed. This has been debunked repeatedly. Autism, seizures, and allergies are often associated with vaccines because they are not visible birth defects, but are instead discovered.
Re:Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No ... by SubiculumCode on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:51PM (#21129170)
Vaccines do not cause autism. Regression events are likely due to genes being expressed (or failing to be expressed) at certain critical periods during development under which important neurodevelopmental processes are controlled e.g. synaptogenesis. This is a case of correlation does not equal causation.