Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
What if it causes autism? Are you happy to just blindly take that risk? For the sake of vaccinating against a (usually) non-lethal disease? Some people would call that moronic.

My comments come from someone who doesn't have kids, who doesn't have to make this decision. If I did have kids, I'd be thinking about this from a completely different angle.
Actually Ong I know about the whole thing, which is rare. Look up the original case yourself. It basically exists from some really bad data interpretation from a scientist that has been shown to be complete nonsense a thousand times over. It was shown to be crap at the time and since then no large scale data analysis has shown anything.

There is no proposed mechanism for vaccines causing autism. Vaccines in themselves don't all work the exact same way so even it was true for one vaccine (which everything says it isn't) there is nothing to suggest it'd happen for others either.

If the link between autism and vaccines were true then the development of autism just through your kid getting some disease they got over would be as likely. So basically every time you got a cold there would be a ~equal chance of developing autism. I'm also fairly sure that bar brain injuries on some level people don't just develop autism from anything and there hasn't been anything to suggest otherwise. That tiny part I may be wrong on though.