Vaccines do not cause Autism*
Alternate title: The return of the asterisk
We’ve got an update to the CDC website. It looks as though they’re finally walking back the ridiculous claim we’ve all heard from how many vaccine apologists that the science shows “vaccines do not cause autism.”
When you’re talking to someone like that — to someone that will repeat this obvious lie — you’re not talking to a real winner. You’re talking to someone that wants to force you to do things. You’re talking to a mouthpiece of power. You are not talking to a scientifically literate individual.
Most people that throw around the term “science” are nowhere near scientifically literate, which is a point they clearly demonstrate themselves if they’re given a few moments speak on the subject.
It takes an extraordinary amount of study to prove that something does not cause something else. If we had lifelong placebo-controls, the type of thing any sane society would do, then they would have an argument. But we don’t have anything like that. We have a population vaccinated willy-nilly for decades upon decades. It’s not clear what scientific evidence, at this point, could even support the conclusion that vaccines don’t cause autism, much less prove it. Without double-blind studies, I don’t see any way that such an association could be disproved.
Anyway, baby steps. Here’s the update, and I’m warning you: you’re in for a double-dose of doubletakes:
Don’t break your brain. The asterisk — whatever happened to asterisks? — means something. It means there’s a note:
So, the scientists are speaking the opposite of the truth because they promised the powerful they would do so.
Isn’t that something?
These reviews have consistently concluded that there are still no studies that support the specific claim that the infant vaccines, DTaP, HepB, Hib, IPV, and PCV, do not cause autism and hence the CDC was in violation of the DQA when it claimed, “vaccines do not cause autism.”
CDC is now correcting the statement, and HHS is providing appropriate funding and support for studies related to infant vaccines and autism. [Emphasis added]
Luckily for us, the scientists are in charge. Lol.
You know, that’s why I didn’t become a scientist, or a public expert in some topic: I always knew they were trotted out when useful, and TOTALLY ignored, or worse, when not useful. Society doesn’t listen to the experts. It listens to the powerful.
We have a long way to go.
Anyway, I guess that’s it for this update.
Good news on the vaccine front.
Anybody that thought this wall would crumble when RFK Jr. leaned on it must live in an alternate universe. We will have many more asterisks to look forward to,* and a Kafkaesque mountain of nonsense behind it.
Shout out to the good people down at Zero Hedge that authored the article where I found out about this.
And also a shout out to the news compendium site, most likely Revolver, that linked me to the article.