Letter to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board

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RE: “Child vaccines deemed safe” (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/75644_vaccined.shtml )

Dear Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board:

WOW, over 2,000 studies on millions of children, vindicating the MMR vaccine. That’s really impressive.

Only I’m really puzzled, because when I did a search of the literature, going all the way back to 1965 (way before there was any mention of MMR and autism, or hardly even any mention of MMR, for that matter, since it is my understanding MMR wasn’t licensed until 1971 or added to the schedule until 1979 http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNews/January2002/VaxTimeLines.pdf ), using my paid subscription to “Silverplatter”, there were only 1520 studies combining the search term “MMR” with the “exploded” thesaurus term for the “Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine”. Not even MMR and autism, or some related thing, but just MMR. So I find it very interesting that you know of around 500 more studies on MMR and autism than appear to exist for MMR, period.

I anxiously await receipt of the list of 2000+ studies “ruling out a link” between MMR and autism. Please include the abstracts, if possible.

Sandy Mintz

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