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works in my favor because of the source I compared this one to, has quite a bit on aluminum, and
also other myths, which I’m sure if she continued writing the article, she would state those myths
as truth.
Garrett, Laurie. “Commentary: Donald Trump and the Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracy Theorists.” Chicago Tribune,
Bruce Dold, 16 Jan. 2017.
In this news article by Laurie Garrett, talks about how Trump met with Robert F Kennedy Jr. and
the disgraced Andrew Wakefield, both are opposition to vaccines, saying that they cause autism.
Kennedy had a meeting with Trump on January 10th, and in a statement after said that he will
chair a commission “on vaccine safety and scientific integrity” at Trump’s request. Wakefield
conducted experiments on children that he claimed proved that they had gotten autism from
MMR vaccines, and he published this research in the British medical journal Lancet in 1998,
only to be retracted in 2010 because his claims were found to be false. His license to practice
medicine in the United Kingdom was stripped for “serious misconduct.” People think that the
increase we see in autism diagnoses in parts of Europe, the United States, and Canada is from
MMR vaccines but it is largely in part because psychiatric associations have widened the definition
of the disorder, now describing autism as a spectrum that ranges from the extreme to the
complete non functionality all the way to the socially challenged genius, or Asperger’s syndrome.
It has been found that boys are at least five times more likely to be diagnosed with autism
spectrum disorder than girls, yet the genders are equally likely to be vaccinated. Mercury used to
be used in vaccines such as these to keep it preserved in the doctor’s office, and Kennedy claims
that this preservative, known as thimerosal, is still used today as a preservative and causes brain
damage. However, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Food and Drug Administration
removed it from vaccines since 1999. Companies such as UNICEF, GAVI, the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, WHO, and countless other organizations, the mortality rates in third world
countries has gone down dramatically. Refusal or inability to get vaccines has caused polio to
return and eruption of measles across the Middle East. In early 1980s Soviet virologist Galena
Petrovna Chervonskaya made the first claim of association among vaccines, which led to a massive
drop in vaccination rates. The drop in rates caused an epidemic where 200,000 unvaccinated
children contracted diphtheria, and nearly ⅔ of the children died.
This source will be useful because it is a current event. It reiterates some of the same points that
other sources talk about, such as the effect of limiting access to vaccines. In comparison to the
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