On Aug 30, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: >> The reason to give shots early is that's when the >> immune system is >> doing its major formational work, "learning" as >> much as it can as fast >> as it can. Vaccination is more likely to be effective for >> different >> diseases at different times. >> Charlie. > > as long as they are not all given at the same time, when there is a > possibility of an interaction that could cause autism...
I think this is what "Charlane" was trying to get at with her question: According to the guest, there have been many 100s or even 1000s of concomitant vaccine studies intended to determine whether the immunological agents affect each other's effectiveness, and (one hopes, though I have no data) have no other effects that arise from their combination. Many people have a desperate need to establish causation when their child is suddenly seriously ill. When my son Kevin was diagnosed and later died from brain cancer, we actually had family members try to pin it on us for letting him play with battery operated toys and computers. Un-freaking-believable nonsense came out of people who, if they were even slightly sane, would have been comforting us instead of blaming us. We are wired to form conclusions: otherwise, the world would make no sense to us at all. Most of the time, we either get it partly right, and further experience confirms or contradicts our conclusion with little consequence. But when your kid is suddenly and unexpectedly seriously ill, this mechanism can go horribly awry. Are you to have a bunch of other kids and immunize some and not others, in order to collect more experience? Of course not. So these poor parents, and people who know them or are five or six degrees of separation away from them but nonetheless hear about them, spread the virus of misinformation that hundreds or thousands of scientific studies cannot overcome. Pray for wisdom Maru Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
