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Anti-vaccine groups outreach to Minnesota Somali families over measles outbreak

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2017 and anti vaccine groups still lying about the link between vaccines and autism?

They are very dangerous

I've never thought this way before, but after reading the story of that woman it hit me. You're someone, perhaps with low education, and your baby is diagnosed autism. He/she had a vaccine some times ago. As most human being you're looking at something or someone to blame. And then you hear of the rumors about relation between vaccines and autism. You surely connect the dots. And start talking to friends and family. And the rumor grows. I have a better understanding of why now. Still frightening.

Or perhaps you are someone whose parents scrupulously followed government nutrition recommendations when they raised you and your siblings, and you and your siblings continued following those recommendations for yourselves as adults, and for your children.

You and and your siblings all turned out fat and diabetic, and you've all got fat children, and you've concluded that maybe some of those government recommendations were driven more by politics and preservation of profit than by science.

So now you are inclined to be skeptical of government recommendations, especially where the recommended actions benefit someone with a big lobbying apparatus.

How following nutrition recomendations makes you fat?

> So now you are inclined to be skeptical of government recommendations, especially where the recommended actions benefit someone with a big lobbying apparatus.

In the case of vaccines, what big lobbying apparatus are we talking?

There are groups with higher education that are looking into the data.

http://oatext.com/Pilot-comparative-study-on-the-health-of-v...

Are you aware that this pilot study is an anonymous internet survey?

And now, it is retracted

http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/08/retracted-vaccine-auti...

What's the reason it was retracted? My vision is not so great (not being sarcastic sorry if it sounds as such).

http://oatext.com/pdf/JTS-3-186.pdf http://oatext.com/pdf/JTS-3-187.pdf

I'm so confused by this headline and the same label is in the article. Should it be anti-anti-vaccine groups or just vaccine groups?

Anti-vaccine groups are behind measles.

I re-read and understand now. The article starts talking about "public health officials are battling to contain the disease while also trying to educate parents in the face of an organized opposition" but immediately flips to talking about the enemy.

Nope. Basically anti-vaccine groups are doing advocacy in the community encouraging people NOT to get their children vaccinated as a measles outbreak happens. It so screwed up.

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