[webstersII]

The evidence for "vaccines causing autism" is (a) child is vaccinated; (b) child is diagnosed as autistic; (c) therefore, vaccination causes autism. It's about as realistic as (a) child breathes; (b) child is diagnosed with autism; (c) breathing causes autism.

It's easy to have an opinion like this when you make sure that you don't look into any evidence contrary to said opinion.

There is enough evidence out there to warrant more investigation of a link, whether you want to look at the evidence or not.

[Poohbah]

It's easy to have an opinion like this when you make sure that you don't look into any evidence contrary to said opinion.

The initial survey was on 12--count them, TWELVE--children. That's way too small a sample pool. The follow-up studies have not supported the initial claim made by Wakefield.

There is enough evidence out there to warrant more investigation of a link, whether you want to look at the evidence or not.

Wow. The initial reports turned out to be BS, but there's reason to investigate. Kinda like how the Democrats conceded that there was no evidence of Bush participating in an "October Surprise" during the 1980 election, but then arguing that the charges were SO SERIOUS that we had to spend unbelievable amounts of money investigating them.