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And they're the ones telling us that everyone else is lying.

Malcolm wrote:

And they're the ones telling us that everyone else is lying.

Vaccinations were endorsed by the CDC back in 1946. The studies saying they're evil are the ones claiming the lies. The CDC has put out study and after study which supports their almost seventy year-old stance.

"I regret that my co-authors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article," Thompson said in a statement sent to CNN by his lawyer. "I have had many discussions with Dr. Brian Hooker over the last 10 months regarding studies the CDC has carried out regarding vaccines and neurodevelopmental outcomes, including autism spectrum disorders. I share his belief that CDC decision-making and analyses should be transparent."

However, Thompson went on to say that Hooker had recorded these conversations without his consent, and had posted them online without his knowledge.

"I regret that my co-authors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article," Thompson said in a statement sent to CNN by his lawyer. "I have had many discussions with Dr. Brian Hooker over the last 10 months regarding studies the CDC has carried out regarding vaccines and neurodevelopmental outcomes, including autism spectrum disorders. I share his belief that CDC decision-making and analyses should be transparent."

Students at all 10 campuses of the University of California will be required to be screened for tuberculosis and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella and other diseases under a new health plan set to take effect in 2017, the university said on Friday.

"I told him that he might be called down to the office because of this," she said. "We explained to him that Mom and Dad love him very much and this is our choice because we feel this is protecting him by not being vaccinated."

Though health professionals and researchers have said links between autism and vaccines have been repeatedly discredited, Donovan and other parents believe the damaging side effects of vaccines are not fully known and often downplayed.

"It's not right. It's truly bullying. My son is being singled out and we're made to feel like were bad parents because we've decided not to vaccinate anymore."

Chickenpox, she noted, is usually not a serious disease. Only in rare cases does it have deadly complications.

"They're saying it's some deadly disease but, hello, we all had it," she said.

Malcolm wrote:Elmo says, "Vaccinate, bitches."

I'm surprised there isn't a law saying religious or other reasons are not legally exempt from doing what you're told. I mean, an unvaccinated person could spread a disease to a gay person, and then that would be discrimination.

“This was true even among those children who were at an increased risk of having autism spectrum disorders by virtue of having an older sibling with ASD,” said Dr. Anjali Jain.

The issue of mandatory vaccination has even divided Hollywood. In February, actress Kristen Bell said that her friends and family weren't allowed to hold her daughter Lincoln before she was two months old if they didn't have the whooping cough vaccination. "It's a very simple logic: I believe in trusting doctors, not know-it-alls," she told

TheCatt wrote:

The issue of mandatory vaccination has even divided Hollywood. In February, actress Kristen Bell said that her friends and family weren't allowed to hold her daughter Lincoln before she was two months old if they didn't have the whooping cough vaccination. "It's a very simple logic: I believe in trusting doctors, not know-it-alls," she told

Oh, Kristen. You should have been on my list of 5 if you weren't.

TPRJones wrote:I still maintain that anti-vaccers are inadvertently working to improve the species. We don't get nearly as much culling of the stupid as we need to, so every little bit helps.