Do Vaccines Delay Childrens Development?
According to the U.S. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, 7.5 million American children are considered developmentally delayed, compared to 4.8 million in 1991. Of these 7.5 million, an estimated 30% are autistic, which is not surprising as autism has been linked with the MMR vaccine. Children with developmental delays (based on a survey of 696 children, aged 1-12) are 27% more likely to have had at least three ear infections and 50% more likely to have been on continuing rounds of antibiotics (20 cycles or more), according to the Developmental Delay Registry in March 1995. Most important for this discussion, the study also found that developmentally delayed children were four times more likely than normal children to have had a negative reaction to a vaccination. Vaccination procedures are a politically motivated non-science, whose practitioners are only interested in injecting multitudes of vaccines without much interest or care as to their effects. Data collection on
