I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: even if vaccines did cause autism it takes a special kind of evil to hate autistic children so much that you’d prefer to have a dead or suffering child

Haha, nice graphs. I remember when I was studying probability theory/statistics at uni our teacher told us a fun story - at one point the scientists in one of the European countries decided to do certain research(can't remember the details unfortunately). And...they found that apparently the number of babies being born correlates pretty closely with the number of storks in the area. So...babies are brought by storks after all?! But after more research they found out it's in fact the other way round - the country had recently passed a law that made it easier for newly wed couples to get their own houses(lots of new houses built just for that too). So all of a sudden a whole lot of young couples were getting their own places - and, as a consequence, a lot of them also felt comfortable getting babies=>more babies. But at the same time all of those nice new houses in the country were super convenient for stork nests=>more storks ;) Gotta be careful with your statistics.

Other possible correlative if not causative factors: Age of people when they have kids (aging parents are being studied as a factor, btw, for real, no joke); cumulative effect of environmental toxins on parental DNA (e.g., exposure to lead/lead gas exhaust, pesticides, etc., causing glitches in transcription); and this can go on for-freaking-ever. But it's not vaccines, or what is in vaccines. THOSE SAVE LIVES. People in other countries find anti-vaxxing inhumane and child endangerment. I agree.

I have autism and anti-vaxxers are not only incorrect, they're upsetting. They're essentially saying they'd prefer their child to die of a completely avoidable disease than have autism. I know what my mum prefers and it isn't having a dead kid.

Autism rates have NOT been rising. What has been rising is diagnoses of autism, which correlate inversely to the decline in diagnoses of other mental handicaps. People who would have been called "r******d" thirty or forty years ago are being diagnosed as autistic today. And the rate of the two is level, not rising.

I have no problem with people who refuse to vaccinate their children as long as they go live on Mars. One thing always bothered me though, how come no one mentions that the drug use has increased by a lot for the past few years. How come no one talks about the correlation between a drug abuser mom and having a child with autism afterward? Also, from experience, 8 out of the 10 times I meet a parent of a child with autism, the parents have serious mental issues. Don’t get me wrong, it does not happen with everybody, but it is definitely genetic as well.

you cant diagnose autism until well after the age a child is vaccinated - I hope every autistic child has been vaccinated for their own safety. I feel for the unvaccinated autistic children - who do the parent blame?

I don't think it's vaccines, I think it's the packaging and the preservatives in foods that are dinking with our DNA and thus the men and women that ate a lot of processed foods as children are having children and more and more of them are being born with issues, developing cancer, autism, et. al. I'm not a doctor or geneticist but it would be interesting if they did a study on the increased consumption of packaged/preserved foods of children in the 70s and 80s who's children are being diagnosed with these conditions and others. My argument is that my mother's generation, 1930s, didn't consume many or any products that were packaged in anything other than glass, paper or fabric. My generation (the 1960s and 70s) are the generation of the colorful cereals and pop tarts etc. very few of my generation has autism but our children do. We ate the c**p we saw on TV our parents ate home cooked meals seems like a justified research project.

I've never seen any documentation/study/research that quantitatively proves a correlation between vaccines & Austism. It didn't get any attention until Jenny McCarthy started shooting off her mouth about her son, Ethan. I understand as a Mom, you want someone to blame, that's pretty normal - but guess what? Sometimes there just ISN'T. Medical conditions occur. S**t just happens. It sucks, but it's the truth. Now we've got a generation of anti-vaxxers whose role models are Jenny McCarthy and Kat Von Dee. And I thought having Trump as a president f*****g sucked.

We’re still trying to “prove anti-vaccers wrong”? Louis Pasteur is rolling in his Petri dish.

my nephew has mild Aspbergers Syndrome - the most intelligent child i have ever met in my life

bro if vaccines cause autism i say give your child autism, it ain't a bad thing and certainly doesn't threaten your childs life like not getting vaccinated does

Friggin hilarious...Penn & Teller still best video on why they are Bullsh*t

I wonder if vaccines actually help autism in a way. High fevers can cause brain damage so some vaccines could potentially prevent autism. Or am I completely wrong here?

I have autism

Ok so how does an anti-vaxer parent answer the question: So what would you do if you, your spouse & your autistic child inhaled anthrax? "Please Louis Pasteur i'll pay you anything for your vaccination to save us." Louis P quietly asks solemnly "have you taken my advise about pasteurization to heart?"

The Internet lacks elementary ability to respond with understanding. We live in a world where information is spreading at enormous speed. Untested information passed on by people who are mentally limited. The Internet will kill us. Although sometimes I have the impression that everything is so full of idiocy that we have already died a long time ago, but it did not reach us. And as to which these charts are addressed, they will not understand them anyway. Unfortunately.

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If you hate Autistic children that much - who would you rather have as your child - Forrest Gump or nothing?

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It is sad that people mock those who suffer for an answer... good stats stick , but mocking is just mean. Support those who want the best for their child.

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It is true that corrolation does not prove causation. However, it is also true that lack of verified proof does not disprove causation.