[Al B.]

To blame that epidemic on medicine that didn't even start getting used until after the epidemic has begun is fool hardy.

You've got me confused with someone else. I'm not blaming the huge increase in autism diagnoses on anything. As a parent who has vaccinated his kids with MMR, I AM, however, interested in getting to the truth of the matter, not just play some silly game of abstract posting.

And I know all about the objectivity of medical journals, peer-reviewed and otherwise. Getting to the truth in medical research these days isn't all that easy.

[discostu]

Except that there have been hundreds of studies that show over and over no possible causal link between the two. The best the anti-MMR crowd can muster are opinion pieces reinterpretting somebody else's study, and graphs that clearly show they're barking up the wrong tree. I'd like to get to the bottom of it too, it's hard to cure something if you can't pin down the cause. But it's clear that the MMR vaccinations are not the source, there have been too many studies done too many ways and there's just no valid science that contradicts them even a little. Those working to cure autism have wasted enough time on MMR research, it's time to find some other possible cause to research.