(May 5, 2014 at 4:02 am)Godslayer Wrote: My mother went to school as an Autism specialist, and has stuck by her guns that vaccines cause Autism. My brother has Autism and she completely blames the medical system for my brothers Autism, despite evidence to the contrary. She sites studies from the 90s that claimed Autism was caused by Vaccines (basically the Jim Carey, Jenny McCarthy crowd) and she refuses to believe that she is fallible on the topic since she studied it for years and she refuses to believe that the information she has learned is fallible. She refuses to believe that Science can progress, and I think this is a problem within her head since she is a religious person, dogmatically believing whatever she wants to believe to give her comfort. I have tried everything, given her evidence that the people who made those studies that claimed Autism was caused by Vaccines have since retracted their statements, but to no avail. She has called me ignorant on the topic even though I am looking at it more objectively than she is, since she will not bend with new evidence. Just wondering, what should I say to her? Maybe this topic is too intense for her and I should leave it alone. But at the same time I am hugely against Anti-Vaccination people for obvious reasons. Any advice would be awesome, otherwise I'm sure I'm going to here the same thing I've heard from my friends.
There is nothing you can say to her Godslayer. Not one damn piece of evidence will change her mind, she is religious about this topic and nothing will sway her POV.
She IS wrong, like religious people, but that will change nothing
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