AuTalkz II - 039 - Logic

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Besides that the fact has been debunked over and over again, some people (mostly those who are easily influenced, uneducated, or anti-vacciners) still believe in the myth that vaccines cause autism.

Well, just think about that a minute.  Danny poses a good question, here:
If a school requires all of its students to be vaccinated or they can't attend (I believe my school did this), how come I was the only autistic kid in the class?

If vaccines really cause autism, then how come my brother, who received the exact same set of vaccinations I got, isn't autistic?

I have friends who have kids; their kids are vaccinated.  How come their kids don't have autism?

Simple answer:

BECAUSE VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM;
ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE IS LYING!

What's really going on here, and I plan on touching more on the subject (and going more in detail with the explanation when I have issues ready for it), is that people are afraid of autism, so they latch onto things to justify their fears and spread their fears to others (even if said things, such as the debunked link between autism and vaccines, are not actually true).

This is a quick answer from Google on the subject:
"Vaccine ingredients do not cause autism. One vaccine ingredient that has been studied specifically is thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used to prevent contamination of multidose vials of vaccines. Research shows that thimerosal does not cause ASD."

That was from a study done in late 2015, nearly 2016.  The entire myth between the (falsified) correlation between vaccines and autism was debunked long before then.

A quick Google search also brought this up:
"Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born c. 1957) is a British former surgeon and medical researcher, known for his fraudulent 1998 research paper in support of the now-discredited claim that there is a link between the administration of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, and the appearance of autism and bowel disease."

For a less general and more credible source, WebMD had this to say this on the topic.

If you want an even more credible source, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) even very quite clearly states it in this report, with the headline of "Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism", and a sub-headline of "There is no link between vaccines and autism."

Anyone who claims otherwise is one of the three things:
1)  Misinformed
2)  Uneducated (I do not mean this in a mean way)
3)  An anti-vacciner


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