There are somethings, which despite being continually rejected as ludicrous ideas/theories by people who know what they are talking about, still come out as complete rubbish.
This is just to mention something, which 99% of the (mainly female) public believe(d) in. No not ghosts, E.T. or other weird paedophilic aliens, but the idea that if you take the MMR jab (well for your kids) that they would in some way develop autism and some bowel disease.
From the moment this became a public thing, suddenly everyone's running around saying their autistic kid had the MMR jab, so are going to sue etc. More importantly, parents were afraid to vaccinate their kids, against potentially life threatening disease. Stupid? Yes. Ill-informed? Yes.
I don't really know how the truth gets lost in all this media crap. Newspapers, TV channels need to make money, so just jazz it up a little. One numpty says something bad about it, with absolutely no leg to stand on, yet it comes to the forefront.
Well the lesson is both twofold. Firstly don't believe (basically) anything anyone tells you- association isn't causation. Secondly, please get the MMR jab, it says lives.
p.s. The Lancet journal completely retracted their so called finding about autism and MMR. This is basically unheard of, as people, especially science journals never admit they are wrong.
p.p.s. what we should be scared of is some hurrendous auto-immune arthritis after the swine flu vaccine. Only kidding......or am I?
This is just to mention something, which 99% of the (mainly female) public believe(d) in. No not ghosts, E.T. or other weird paedophilic aliens, but the idea that if you take the MMR jab (well for your kids) that they would in some way develop autism and some bowel disease.
From the moment this became a public thing, suddenly everyone's running around saying their autistic kid had the MMR jab, so are going to sue etc. More importantly, parents were afraid to vaccinate their kids, against potentially life threatening disease. Stupid? Yes. Ill-informed? Yes.
I don't really know how the truth gets lost in all this media crap. Newspapers, TV channels need to make money, so just jazz it up a little. One numpty says something bad about it, with absolutely no leg to stand on, yet it comes to the forefront.
Well the lesson is both twofold. Firstly don't believe (basically) anything anyone tells you- association isn't causation. Secondly, please get the MMR jab, it says lives.
p.s. The Lancet journal completely retracted their so called finding about autism and MMR. This is basically unheard of, as people, especially science journals never admit they are wrong.
p.p.s. what we should be scared of is some hurrendous auto-immune arthritis after the swine flu vaccine. Only kidding......or am I?
