“I have to wonder what would happen if 60 years ago you said that antibiotics were dangerous because of the Bacterial resistance....
They would probably call you an anti-antibiotic kook.”
Not if your hypothesis was actually feasible and couldn’t be contradicted by observation and experiment. You see, that is how science works. Reasonable people will believe a feasible, confirmable hypothesis (like antibiotic resistance), while only loons will believe an unfeasible, debunked hypothesis (like vaccines cause autism).
[ Not if your hypothesis was actually feasible and couldn’t be contradicted by observation and experiment. You see, that is how science works. Reasonable people will believe a feasible, confirmable hypothesis (like antibiotic resistance), while only loons will believe an unfeasible, debunked hypothesis (like vaccines cause autism). ]
I am all for doing double blind research on vaccines and combinations of vaccines etc... but saying that vaccines don’t cause autism, case closed, is close minded “The science is settled” thinking. It could be another mechanism that causes autism and that vaccines are an accelerator in cases where an individual has a genetic predisposition for autism. It may not be the vaccine, it may be something else in the vaccination shot or maybe just the stress of provoking an immune response in a child who has certain immune conditions that we don’t know about.
In 20-30 years we may finally recognize the actual connection if there is one, but now what is to hurt by delaying the vaccinations a bit until the child is a few months older, and not bundling them, but doing them one at a time with a nice stretch of time in between each one?
The bundling of vaccines concerns me, it may be a necessity in the 3rd world where a child may not be able to see the doctor but once in their childhood, and the risk of the vaccine is minimal compared to the risk of dying from the diseases being vaccinated for. But in the 1st world spacing out the vaccines is infinitely easier as you can do them one at a time with a 6month gap between during bi-yearly routine checkups.
Why expose yourself to more risk if it can easily be helped?