Comments on: Channel 7 and the anti-vaxers; the story so far.

By: AndyD

AndyD — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:07:01 +0000

I just did a quick ring-around and found that of all the kids around here who caught a cold last year, the overwhelming majority had been inside of a vehicle sometime in the weeks prior. Hmmm, makes you think doesn’t it?

By: Bastard Sheep

Bastard Sheep — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:23:18 +0000

Vaccines are not 100% effective, nothing is. If the large majority of the population around your area are vaccinated, then yes, the majority of people coming in for it will be vaccinated too. Do you compare the number of vaccinated and unvaccinated coming in with pertussis to the number of vaccinated and unvaccinated in the area? I’m willing to bet the ratio of vaccinated coming in to vaccinated out there is miniscule compared to the ratio of unvaccinated coming in to unvaccianted out there in the local area.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:23:02 +0000

I work in a public hospital and witness every year children hospitalised due to petussis infection … guess what … the overwhelming majority are vaccinated.

My observation over 30 years is this … if you as a parent feed your children the “modern” diet of fast foods and soft drinks by all means get them vaccinated because your neglect will prepare that child for a (short) life time of illness.

By: Annette

Annette — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:46:47 +0000

I am so outraged by this anti vaccination network!. They are like a fundamentalist religion!!!!
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They are so dangerous, so much so I have written to the TGA with some of their website information. What they call ‘fact’ is false and misleading. Organizations such as these should be closed down for spreading untruths. No wonder diseases like whopping cough are on the come back!!!

By: Skep dick

Skep dick — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:39:26 +0000

Very interesting to read these through.
I seriously don’t know why someone doesn’t have a proper debate through a chanel like ABCs question show or something along those lines. Channel 7 is garbage. Anyone who watches today tonight, ACA or Sunday night wouldn’t know good journalism if it hit them over the head.

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By: mddawson

mddawson — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:44:30 +0000

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:20:05 +0000

@AndyD, I had a very brief look at PubMed and found a Cochrane Review from April 2008. AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: Research has shown of high rates of use of complementary and alternative therapies (CAM) for children with autism including gluten and/or casein exclusion diets. Current evidence for efficacy of these diets is poor. Large scale, good quality randomised controlled trials are needed. I will need to read the rest of the review more thoroughly, but what is clear is that "the included trials did not share common outcome measures and therefore no meta-analysis was possible".

By: AndyD

AndyD — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:51:22 +0000

Dr Rachie, could you comment on the latest blog link (or whatever it’s called) from “Unique Autism Experiments…” above? It links to a page apparently pushing the GFCF (gluten-free, casein-free) diet which I thought had been pretty much debunked as a treatment for autism. Is there new science here or is this the same old “solution” that’s been bandied about for a while?

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Unique Autism Experiments Offer Parents Hope — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:59:15 +0000

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