You wanted a takedown right?
Well, first off, greenmedinfo is reposting a story from the “Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute”
So, already we are in copypasta territory. (Write one story, post it to dozens of “green-blogs”) One seems less kooky than the other, but they are both anti-vax heavy sites.
This is simple as reading the study, which is free to read.
Basically they use a microscopic technique that heretofore had not been used to study vaccines, to suss out components, and they found some contamination. With any article, I always just jump straight to the conclusion.
The analyses carried out show that in all samples checked
vaccines contain non biocompatible and bio-persistent foreign
bodies which are not declared by the Producers, against which
the body reacts in any case. This new investigation represents a
new quality control that can be adopted to assess the safety of a
vaccine. Our hypothesis is that this contamination is unintentional,
since it is probably due to polluted components or procedures of
industrial processes (e.g. filtrations) used to produce vaccines, not
investigated and not detected by the Producers. If our hypothesis
is actually the case, a close inspection of the working places and
the full knowledge of the whole procedure of vaccine preparation
would probably allow to eliminate the problem.
Basically, we invented a way to better screen vaccine lots for contamination, and it seems like the current methods we have let things slip through the cracks. It is hard to read this study, and make the enormous leap that these contamination cause any sort of adverse reaction in the body. They study is more about the new technique used in finding them, not what they do. To wit, from the introduction.
The notice of Tripedia DTaP by Sanofi Pasteur reports “Adverse events reported during post-approval use of Tripedia vaccine include idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, SIDS, anaphylactic reaction, cellulitis, autism, convulsion/grand mal convulsion, encephalopathia, hypotonia, neuropathy, somnolence and apnea”. The epidemiological studies carried out did not show a clear evidence of those associations
So, vaccines can cause side effects. We know that, we also know they are exceedingly rare. But, and I would agree with the author on this one, exceedingly rare =/= no side effects. We should strive towards limiting those.
Another odd find.
http://imgur.com/7VSKfFX
Note the bibliography links to 4/5 (Discourse is going to make you click these images to be able to read them)
http://imgur.com/8wO9yHL
Hmm… MMR vaccine linked to autism? What does the article say about that?
Oh… it says “No evidence for a causal link” Seems legit…
Anyway, I feel that the author is playing up the popular vaccine-as-boogyman theories to sell people on this new screening technique. Funny. Read the published articles, not the blogs.
Also… why does discourse blow up imgur images to unreadable size?