The Trench Reynolds Report

  • Doctors turning away the children of idiots who won’t get their kids vaccinated

    This is an article about how some doctors in the US are declining treatment to children whose parents refuse to get them vaccinated. I say it’s about damn time and more if not all doctors are doing this. It’s the doctor’s damn right to protect his other patients from ill-informed, misguided, stupid, gullible Luddites who…

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  • Make anti-vaccine parents pay higher premiums

    Link Refusing to vaccinate a child is dangerous not just for that child but for entire communities. It’s precisely this point a colleague of mine was considering when he had the idea that parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids should pay substantially higher health insurance premiums. That is an awesome idea. It’s time to…

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  • Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud,’ British journal finds

    Link An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study’s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study — and that there was “no doubt” Wakefield was responsible. Can we finally move on and get…

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  • One third of parents are Luddites

    AP Poll: Third of parents oppose swine flu vaccine: Let’s go over this again. There is no scientific proof that vaccines cause autism. The odds of something happening to your kids from a vaccine are the same as winning the lottery. Personally I’d rather not have my kids die from swine flu but that’s just…

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  • Vaccines didn’t cause autism, court rules

    Link A special court ruled Thursday that evidence presented in three cases by parents of children with autism did not prove a link between autism and certain early childhood vaccines. Will you Luddites and conspiracy nuts get your kids vaccinated now?

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  • Amanda Peet speaks out for vaccination with backup

    Defending Vaccines: Actress Dispels Link To Autism: My newfound respect for Amanda Peet keeps increasing. Instead of spreading fear and junk science about vaccinations like Jenny McCarthy, Amanda Peet us speaking out in favor of vaccinating children and actually has a prominent doctor backing her up. After her baby was born in early 2007, she…

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  • Jenny McCarthy Slams Amanda Peet Over Vaccines

    Link LOS ANGELES — Actress and new mom Amanda Peet referred to parents who choose not to vaccinate their children as “parasites” in a recent interview. But despite her public apology aimed at parents of autistic children who believe that vaccines may have caused the illness, Jenny McCarthy hasn’t forgiven or forgotten. “She (Peet) has…

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  • Public needs to know vaccines are safe, docs say

    Public needs to know vaccines are safe, docs say – Yahoo! News A new coalition of 22 major medical groups says public confidence in vaccine safety needs to be restored to avoid risks for deadly disease outbreaks. Thursday’s message comes from the Chicago-based American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and 20 more of…

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  • No Connection Between Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) Vaccine And Autism, Study Suggests

    Link We found no relationship between the timing of MMR vaccine and the onset of either GI complaints or autism.” Not that this will convince the Luddites of anything. They’d rather have their kids die of infectious diseases than embrace current scientific data. As much as I feel for kids with autism a lot of…

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