So it's been a while

[draggonlaady]

since I read Bad Science. I'm catching up on back issues. Which means lots of links for you lovely folks.

Once more into the breach on Autism vs vaccination... a specious correlation so wide-spread into 'common knowledge' that clients have declined vaccinations for puppies despite my best efforts to educate that them that 1: vaccines don't cause autism, 2: dogs don't get autism anyway, even if vaccines did cause it in humans (which they don't-see 1), 3: dogs get Parvo regularly, 4: even if autism DID happen in dogs, and even if it WERE caused by vaccination, it's not fatal, and 5: Parvo kills dogs in a disgusting and decidedly uncomfortable manner (and we'll just not even get started on distemper...)

http://www.badscience.net/2008/12/its-not-my-fault-i-fall-into-repetitive-self-parody-you-started-it/

Comments

[evil-egg.livejournal.com]

I was always under the impression that A. the germs in a vaccination shot were dead, or as near to dead as such a simple organism can get, and B. that they "acted" on the bloodstream and immune system, not the nervous sytem.

Didn't some comedian or Internaut once suggest that people who don't want their children to get vaccinated should have to do a thousnad-word essay on "Why [disease] Isn't So Bad"?

[kresentia.livejournal.com]

Someone shoot me. Or the stupid people.
I can understand the fear for your kids (and just wait until we get small pox and polio back! Then they can really be afraid!) but at least ask questions before deciding that totally different vaccinations for your dogs are a problem! (Isn't it one specific vaccination that is "linked" to autism rather than vaccinations in general?) Sigh. People hurt.