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RE: Vaccines didn't cause GWS (or autism, or ___, or ...)

Comment a comment by Brandon U. Hansen (Brandon), published on 09 November 2009
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I’m not sure how you can read the conclusions quoted in my original post and think report authors consider the door closed:

The Asa/Tulane studies may have correctly identified excess rates of squalene antibodies in ill veterans, whether or not they were caused by vaccines, by vaccine contamination, or by clandestine use of an unapproved adjuvant. It is important to determine whether the observed association between squalene antibodies and Gulf War illness is supported, or refuted, by more definitive research.

As for the portion you quoted, I agree it frowns on the idea of an association between the anthrax vaccine and GWS. It does, however, specifically claim “an association between Gulf War illness and receipt of a large number of vaccines cannot be ruled out.”

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RE: Vaccines didn't cause GWS (or autism, or ___, or ...) by mikeforbes :: NR6

I didn’t say the door is conclusively closed, just that there is no convincing evidence to support the hypothesis that it might be open. Especially when there is clear empirical evidence for an actual causal relationship between GWS and exposure to PB tablets and pesticides. Why so much emphasis on what has repeatedly and consistently been shown to be an extremely low-probability theory?

Here’s a little bit more info on squalene. Actually, that entire site has some good information and links: http://www.anthrax.mil/

What really seals it for me, though, is the fact that DoD has been vaccinating troops like crazy for the past 8 years for anthrax, smallpox, and everything else they can think of … and there is no comparable “OIF Syndrome” or “Afghanistan Syndrome.” What part of the vaccines given to troops changed between 1991 and 2001? Answer: nothing. It is likely that they give even more now than they did then. Every other exposure associated with deployment to that part of the world is pretty close to the same also … except, as I mentioned already, PB tablets and pesticides. To me, that is an impressive stack of evidence.

Is this post and discussion really about GWS and the anthrax vaccine, or are you more concerned about vaccines in general—that is, those available for you and your kid(s)?

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