It drives me crazy. And ten bucks says the anti-vaccine camp is still going to keep using this. Even though, you know it was only MMR that was implicated AND that was bogus. Argh.
I am actually relieved to see this article. I think it's going to take 1-2 generations to undo the damage he's done...people won't believe it even though he admitted to lying. My nephew is autistic, but we didn't think for one moment that it was from vaccinations. Most kids who are autistic (and now I know several), it's not the overnight transformation that some people speak of. It's easy for forget just how scared and in denial people really are about it. My nephew showed symptoms practically from birth, such as screaming at music or electronic toy sounds, and yet my sister's family didn't accept he might have these issues until he was 4. The most interesting part of the article to me was that even though the families who were supposedly claiming that the vaccination injured their kid had already brought up issues before the immunization and then "forgot." Not even a little surprising to me.
Current estimates put the autism spectrum somewhere in the region of 90% heritable, which of course isn't to say there aren't aggravating environmental factors, but I'd hazard at that rate, the environment is probably only contributing to severity, not incidence. And whether or not vaccination is part of the contributory input is highly debatable. Either way, like I said to hurry_sundown, there hasn't been a good reason yet to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Everybody stops vaccinating, all we're likely to end up with are autistic kids with diphtheria. *sigh*
Self-report is SUCH a minefield, especially when people may have already decided something must be causing the disorders (a psychologist might say it's parents trying to relieve themselves of genetic guilt, but idk).
I love these asshats who "defend" themselves when they're caught. Ya, deny it. You'll just look like an even bigger jackass. Me thinks this guy has some serious punishment ahead of him.
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Self-report is SUCH a minefield, especially when people may have already decided something must be causing the disorders (a psychologist might say it's parents trying to relieve themselves of genetic guilt, but idk).
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