RE: You're Still An Asshole, Lady
April 11, 2015 at 10:06 am
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2015 at 10:09 am by Heywood.)
(April 10, 2015 at 11:24 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(April 10, 2015 at 11:12 pm)Heywood Wrote: .... However I understand that there are some good, peer reviewed, studies which suggest a link between vaccinations and autism. ....
Your understanding is completely wrong. There are no good peer-reviewed studies that suggest that. (Notice, there are two adjectives for the word "studies" in the previous sentence.) There was a study that suggested that some years back, but it was not a good study, and it was retracted. Yet the anti-vaccine idiots still refer to it, even though it has been totally discredited.
There is NO good evidence that vaccines affect autism.
Here is a study from 2011.
http://omsj.org/reports/tomljenovic%202011.pdf
Is this the one you are talking about? If not this must not be a good study. Why isn't it any good?
I doubt that vaccines cause autism. I would recommend that all parents get their kids vaccinated so I am not arguing against vaccines. I am arguing that just because a parent does not get their kids vaccinated does not automatically mean they are idiots....as suggested by Sionnach Suppose the woman relied upon the above study and concluded that because everyone else around her is vaccinated, it is unlikely her kids will contract a contagious disease. Why risk, the allergic reaction, the small possibility it causes autism, etc when you can just free roll off everyone else?
