LOL, Do you only spend your time just stalking vaccination threads trying to correct us wacky anti-vaxers? I swear I've never seen you anywhere else. An agenda maybe...

As for misinformation... well...

Are you seriously trying to tell me that a 273 percent rise over the last 11 years is based purely on better diagnosis? It's an asinine attempt to belittle the rising rates and is the proverbial ostrich head in the sand.

But if we want to talk about how a change in diagnosis criteria fudges the numbers, why don't you have a look at how a diagnosis of Polio changed in 1955 (conveniently 5 years after the introduction of the vaccine). It went from only requiring an examination 24 hours apart to needing a minimum of 10 days, without being able to confirm definitively unless it exceeded 70 days. Don't you think this would change the statistics? There's your polio cure - change the criteria! Perhaps you can cure autism the same way...

As for your proof on vaccine induced herd immunity (I do not disagree that natural exposure will lead to herd immunity), I'm glad the man with his computer was able to make some wonderfully complex mathematical simulations, but anyone who has done something on a simulator knows there is often a very big difference between it and the real thing. Lets see what science says about what is happening in real life....

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2. Measles outbreak in 31 schools: risk factors for vaccine failure and evaluation of a selective revaccination strategy. Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto, Ont. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 150(7):1093-8, 1994 Apr 1.

3. Haemophilus b disease after vaccination with Haemophilus b polysaccharide or conjugate vaccine. Institution Division of Bacterial Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Md 20892. American Journal of Diseases of Children. 145(12):1379-82, 1991 Dec.

4. Sustained transmission of mumps in a highly vaccinated population: assessment of primary vaccine failure and waning vaccine-induced immunity. Division of Field Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 169(1):77-82, 1994 Jan. 1.

5. Secondary measles vaccine failure in healthcare workers exposed to infected patients. Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 14(2):81-6, 1993 Feb.

6. MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) 38 (8-9), 12/29/89.

7. MMWR "Measles." 1989; 38:329-330.

8. MMWR. 33(24),6/22/84.

9. Failure to reach the goal of measles elimination. Apparent paradox of measles infections in immunized persons. Review article: 50 REFS. Dept. of Internal Medicine, Mayo Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN. Archives of Internal Medicine. 154(16):1815-20, 1994 Aug 22.

10. Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology, May 1996; 79(2): 163-170.

11. Trevor Gunn, Mass Immunization, A Point in Question, at 15 (citing E.D. Hume, Pasteur Exposed-The False Foundations of Modern Medicine, Bookreal, Australia, 1989.)

12. Physician William Howard Hay's address of June 25, 1937; printed in the Congressional Record.

13. Outbreak of paralytic poliomyelitis in Oman; evidence for widespread transmission among fully vaccinated children. Lancet vol 338: Sept 21, 1991; 715-720.


I've got at least forty more peer reviewed and published references like these if you want, but those should keep you going for now.