Who to believe?

Excerpt from the local TV news story:

"The CDC reports that no link has been found between the common Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccines and neurological disorders.
Frank Maye treats hundreds of autistic children and says he is haunted by the faces of parents struggling with the horror of the so-called lost children.

As a former Miami-Dade detective turned holistic clinician, he is in the investigation of his life, trying to determine if there is a link between children getting vaccinated and autism, which he says is presenting in high numbers at the 18-month mark."

Well, that's a no-brainer. Who wouldn't believe "a former Miami-Dade detective turned holistic clinician" instead of the CDC, major pediatricians' groups and the many studies overwhelmingly finding no link between vaccination and autism? (insert rolleyes smiley here).

"(Maye) confirmed that 80% of children diagnosed with autism develop problems at 18 months of age, and not at birth--a percentile he found shocking."

Autism is not a diagnosis made at birth. What's shocking is Maye's ignorance.

As for Mary Tocco, who says she wants to save children from chronic diseases by discouraging their parents from getting them immunized - the sad irony is that her antivax message will make those children (and their contacts in daycare and school) more susceptible to chronic effects and death from preventable communicable diseases. Tweet