In your eagerness for a cheap “Gotcha!” you missed the point completely, not surprisingly.
The vaccine alarmists claim the Amish as support for their vaccine-autism link. The correlation between TV viewing (I never claimed causation) and autism is far more solid than any evidence for a link between autism and vaccines, but the vaccine alarmists won’t even look at it. Even when it’s staining them in the face with the Amish population.
Why?
Because they can’t sue anyone or blame anyone if it’s related to TV viewing habits, which is completely under their own control.
Well you got me. And I stand corrected in that your posts seemed to be supporting the vaccination = autism claim. I see now that you are quite skeptical of those claims and good for you. However you need to do some more research into the claims of fetal DNA in vaccines being a cause for Autism as there is no solid scientific evidence to support that claim any more than “bad mom”, mercury or TV theories are definitive cause, or that vaccines contain any fetal DNA or even if they do, it would be in such miniscule and fragments amounts as to have a negligible effect. If that is proven not to be the case, I will stand corrected there as well.
But otherwise it would seem we are, well, mostly on the same page.
What bothers me is how so many are willing to jump on the band wagon that vaccinations are bad based on junk science and the claims of “expert” celebrities like Jenny McCarthy. Many of these same people willingly jump on the AGW bandwagon, the meat is bad bandwagon, the only good foods are organic foods bandwagon, cell phone towers cause cancer bandwagon, the Pharmaceutical Companies and Doctors are engaging in a vast conspiracy to kill us all bandwagon. I could also mention the Area 51 cover-up theories as part of this overall group too.
There is however a very clear link between parents choosing not to vaccinate their children along with a influx of illegal and medically unscreened aliens from third world countries and the rise in instances of once rare and potentially fatal childhood diseases that vaccinations had nearly all but eliminated in the US and other developed nations.
Again, it would seem we perhaps agree more than we disagree.