What is a worse fate for a child- a life-threatening disease or a developmental-behavioral disorder? Fortunately, it is not a choice anyone has to make with the help of vaccines. It may seem scary, leaving a child’s fate into others hands, but it’s necessary. Parents would normally feel helpless when children succumb to illness, and the last people they can trust for dire situations are doctors. Advancements in science and technology has made science fiction, into reality, and injecting children with modified diseases to help them build immunity to said disease may seem illogical, but it is not. It is actually very beneficial to them, and highly recommended by most doctors. But there are some who believe that vaccines do indeed cause ASD.
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He investigated 12 children, which seemingly had normal developmental progress, but due to environmental triggers, they regressed developmentally and acquired associated intestinal abnormalities (1). The environmental trigger in question which sparked the problems was the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. The 12 children all had a diagnosis under ASD, but for 8 of the children the sudden onset of symptoms related to that of ASD was linked to the administration of the MMR vaccine, based on the parents’ testament (1). Wakefield doesn’t directly state that vaccines caused the development of ASD symptoms in the children, but strongly suggests there is a correlation between the two events. He does so by stacking evidence which supports the correlation such as that of the parents’ opinions that their child’s behavior shifted within 2 weeks of the administration of the vaccine, mentioning other studies which also observed an association between the MMR vaccine and onset of behavioral symptoms, and conducting brain tests, especially for fragile x syndrome which came out negative, and deemed the child did not have genetic predispositions towards developing ASD (1). However, the parents’ evidence of behavioral changes post-vaccinations can be seen as a Hindsight bias, as they are recollecting the past events. It is also a possibility that
He investigated 12 children, which seemingly had normal developmental progress, but due to environmental triggers, they regressed developmentally and acquired associated intestinal abnormalities (1). The environmental trigger in question which sparked the problems was the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. The 12 children all had a diagnosis under ASD, but for 8 of the children the sudden onset of symptoms related to that of ASD was linked to the administration of the MMR vaccine, based on the parents’ testament (1). Wakefield doesn’t directly state that vaccines caused the development of ASD symptoms in the children, but strongly suggests there is a correlation between the two events. He does so by stacking evidence which supports the correlation such as that of the parents’ opinions that their child’s behavior shifted within 2 weeks of the administration of the vaccine, mentioning other studies which also observed an association between the MMR vaccine and onset of behavioral symptoms, and conducting brain tests, especially for fragile x syndrome which came out negative, and deemed the child did not have genetic predispositions towards developing ASD (1). However, the parents’ evidence of behavioral changes post-vaccinations can be seen as a Hindsight bias, as they are recollecting the past events. It is also a possibility that