An Aha moment, re: diagnostic substitution

[Guest guest]

When reading through the article sent by Mr. Krakow,

http://www.rochester.edu/pr/releases/med/vaccines.htm, I noted this small

passage in the mix:

" At the vanguard of the renaissance in vaccine research was the creation by

University scientists of a vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib), a

microbe that causes bacterial meningitis and other diseases. The bacterium used

to infect about 20,000 children in the United States alone each year, killing

more than 1,000 and leaving thousands of youngsters deaf, blind, paralyzed, or

with mental retardation. "

Let us assume for just one moment that they are not exxagerating the danger of

Hib, and thousands indeed were being made deaf, blind, paralyzed or MR from the

menigitus. We know that deafness is greatly reduced in the last couple of

decades, with those adults who are deaf up in arms about the " extinction " of

their " culture " . They blame cochlear implants, but certainly, if congenital

rubella syndrome, menigitus and other " vaccine-preventable diseases " also caused

deafness, the use of vaccines to make these diseases sub-clinical and less

harmful certainly also would reduce the incidence of deafness before the need

for cochlear implants would arise.

Now let us assume that the damage from measles, rubella, Hib, & pertussis which

would cause children to become MR was also reduce in a similar manner. Since

these vaccines were introduced over time there would be no clear cut line of

drop in the number of MR children. At the same time, as more and more vaccines

are introduced along with other environmental toxins (such as PBDE's) we have

seen a growing number of autistic children.

Some people opine that since school records show an increase of AU and a

decrease of MR it is diagnostic substitution. I propose that what is actually

happening is malady substitution, that we are simply replacing one form of

damage with another.

Curiouser and curiouser...