[quote=CA renter][quote=harvey][quote=CA renter]I’m talking about incredibly dramatic and permanent changes happening within ~24 hours after a vaccination. A perfectly normal child becoming totally unresponsive to their own parents and siblings within a day.
There are thousands upon thousands of people who’ve had this very experience. […][/quote]
Speaking of the “I read something on the internet” brand of “science” …[/quote]
No, two families we have known in person. One family had one child with a reaction (they didn’t vaccinate their other child), and the other family had two children who reacted negatively to their vaccines (with one child having very severe autism, and the other with a mild-moderate form).
In all three cases, their reactions happened within about 24 hours after getting the vaccines. Again, these were *perfectly normal* children who had very dramatic changes within a day of getting vaccinated. This was not progressive, nor did they have any indication of being autistic before these vaccinations.
In the first case (with one child), the child just walked into the parents’ bedroom the next morning with his eyes glazed over. He didn’t smile or have react in any way when his parents spoke to him. When I last saw this family about ten years ago, their son was still severely autistic, though he was making some progress because of the daily work with his one-on-one therapist who came to their house for hours each day.
In the other case, the children got very sick, had rashes and very high fevers, were screaming in pain, etc. As they recovered from their illnesses (they were basically catatonic during their illnesses), the parents noted that they were not responding to them, either. One child eventually responded to some extent (though never fully recovered), and the other ended up being extremely autistic.[/quote]
I think scaredy’s right. Humans in general are wired to understand the world by anecdote. For many people, any scientific theory or fact or test or idea that takes into consideration more information than they’re really able to comprehend doesn’t compute for some them. So they ignore it.
I bet back when scientists first showed that the earth revolved around the sun, most people didn’t believe it. Because they could look up in the sky and see the sun going around the earth. It probably took centuries, or at least decades, for that fact to be accepted. Of course, back then, ordinary people didn’t have access to the latest science like we do now. But if they did, there still probably would’ve been a large percentage of the population that would refuse to believe that the earth revolves around the sun.
Cleverness and ingenuity were an evolutionary advantage when humans were evolving. You have to figure that’s why we (some of us) have it. But when we were evolving, we didn’t have the ability to collect that much data (i.e., more than a reasonably intelligent human could understand). So the usefulness of our cleverness was restricted to relatively immediate concerns. But once we learned to write stuff down and keep data over periods of time and such, science progressed to the the point where a hypothesis could be formed and tested using more data than a pre-science person would’ve been exposed to in his lifetime. For some people, given their wiring, and possibly their lack of ability to think very well in the abstract, this is too much for them to comprehend. So they ignore it.
But, hey, it takes all kinds. Everybody has their flaws. If we were all abstract thinkers and data crunchers, that would suck, too.
