{"id":187351,"date":"2013-03-30T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/30\/another-study-proves-that-jenny-mccarthy-is-a-dangerous-loon\/"},"modified":"2013-03-30T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T01:59:00","slug":"another-study-proves-that-jenny-mccarthy-is-a-dangerous-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/30\/another-study-proves-that-jenny-mccarthy-is-a-dangerous-loon\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Study Proves that Jenny McCarthy is a Dangerous Loon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have another study showing that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/03\/29\/us-usa-health-autism-idUSBRE92S0GO20130329\">no connection between vaccines and autism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">There is no link between receiving a number of vaccines early in life and autism, researchers said on Friday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a study slated to appear in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers said there is no association between receiving &#8220;too many vaccines too soon&#8221; and autism, despite some fears among parents around the number of vaccines given both on a single day and over the first 2 years of life.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As many as one in 50 U.S. school-age children have been diagnosed with autism, up 72 percent since 2007.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Abt Associates analyzed data from children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a statement from the journal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Researchers examined each child&#8217;s cumulative exposure to antigens, the substances in vaccines that cause the body&#8217;s immune system to produce antibodies to fight disease, and the maximum number of antigens each child received in a single day of vaccination, the journal&#8217;s statement said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The antigen totals were the same for children with and without ASD, researchers found.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>In the normal course of growing up, a child is exposed to hundreds, possibly thousands, of new antigens a day, the idea that adding a dozen or so to that would be received through a series of vaccinations would &#8220;cause&#8221; autism is ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the antediluvian thinking of the anti-vax crowd has real consequences:  we have seen increases in outbreaks of previously nearly vanished childhood diseases resulting from a loss of herd immunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have another study showing that there is no connection between vaccines and autism: There is no link between receiving a number of vaccines early in life and autism, researchers said on Friday.In a study slated to appear in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers said there is no association between receiving &#8220;too many vaccines too &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074,1150,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical","category-public-health","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}