myOtaku.com: Solo Tremaine

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Vitals

Birthday
• 1985-07-23
Gender
• Male
Location
• Chichester, England
Member Since
• 2003-08-04
Occupation
• Ex-OtakuBoards Team Miyazaki Leader, Actor, Writer, Director, Stage Combatant...
Real Name
• N/A

Personal

Achievements
• Becoming a Moderator on OtakuBoards, starting up my own production company with my best friend Dan.
Anime Fan Since
• I liked the Mysterious Cities of Gold before I did Pokemon, but Pokemon was the first Japanese Anime I really liked.
Favorite Anime
• Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Outlaw Star, RahXephon, Zoids, Princess Mononoke, Trigun, Howl's Moving Castle, Bleach, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Fruits Basket
Goals
• To write my series of stories, and to act in cool stuff.
Hobbies
• Writing, acting, anime, GameCube, Wii, swordfighting
Talents
• Stage combat, writing, acting, being vaguely humourous, and listening.

myOtaku.com: Solo Tremaine

Friday, April 30, 2004

*Ill, figures*

Hmm, something about the computer doesn't feel right today, not to mention my guts >.> That was a rather unpleasant experience to say the least.

I Hate Ignorant People
I'm not sure how many people outside of the UK know of the huge controversy regarding the combined Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccination injection givcen to children at an early age to (what else but) prevent them from getting either of those three viruses, which can be lethal.

A while ago a study was carried out which suggested that this vaccination might have a possible link to autism. I am going to outline why this is a load of rubbish.

-Firstly, the person who carried out the experiment was a doctor, not a scientist, and was being funded by people who wanted to disprove the MMR was safe. His colleagues who helped carry out the study have hence dissociated themselves from him entirely.
-The sample study of was 14 children, most of whom had already started showing syptoms of autism before the study began. 14 is NOWHERE NEAR a representative of the entire population, and trying to determine the cause of something like autism after it happened is ludicrously difficult- there are too many extraneous circumstances.
-The MMR jab is given at a time when autism symptoms begin to develop anyway. Just because two things happen in close sequence to one another does not mean that the two are linked.
-Studies in Denmark of around 10,000 (considerably more than 14, I hasten to add) children found no link between the two whatsoever. There really isn't that much difference between Danish and English physiology.
-Separate studies on autism have shown that more boys are affected than girls, suggesting its development is related to testosterone levels in the womb during pregnancy.
-Like a lot of immunal tendencies, the likeliness of developing autism can be genetically linked.

This was sparked off by some woman trying to convince everyone that the MMR vaccine was to blame by having her autistic son being filmed. I'm sorry that he happened to develop it, but it's ridiculous to jump into an argument without knowing the full details. The media aren't making things any better because the longer they can keep the debate rolling, the better press they get and the more money they earn. Scientists are tearing their bloody hair out over this. The link hasn't even been fully proven yet, by anything. Studies made after the anti-MMR one that prove that experiment was incredibly unreliable haven't been noticed at all.

It's like trying to prove alink between buying a shirt from a specific shop and having someone spill baked beans down you, or walking under ladders and being hit by low-flying aircraft.

These things really piss me off. They don't know the full story and yet they're happy to lay everything on a scapegoat which does far more good than harm anyway. You're putting your child at far more risk if you don't give them the combined jab.

Not that I expect many parents read my MyOtaku site, but still... if nothing else it's an exercise in showing that not everything's as it seems. I was taught to pick apart TV adverts at an incredibly early age so as not to be drawn in by them (and probably because I'd tell mum that I really wanted something I saw on TV). Doing a Psychology A-Level really made me see how these things can be so critically flawed. It's annoying that so many other people seem to take them as read.

In Other News:
Visit Lady Katana's site for some fantastic preliminary Enter the Net character artwork, hehe ^__^ Deserving nicelies much rounds of applause, definately.

-Happy Birthday James!
-I've removed my Shoutbox, because I couldn't see it and I'm sure it was making the site load much more slowly. There's a fault somewhere and I can't figure out what it is. Annoying.
-I missed answering Sara's set of questions >.> I might sneak mine in in a minute.
-I have the whole weekend at home, which is a lovely surprise ^_^ I was expecting to be rehearsing constantly until Wednesday. So now I can catch up on everything else I've missed, heh.

EDIT: Having now discovered who Trix the Rabbit is, I'd like to change the answer to Lady Katana's last question which she asked me a few days ago: I'd rather have neither o_o;

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