Let’s just say that if you had personally experienced what these other families had, my guess is that you would feel differently. Sometimes, anecdotal evidence is enough to make one question the official message.
And, just as you’ve noted in your other posts, the benefits of vaccination to society generally outweigh the risks to certain individuals who might be genetically(?) predisposed to autism which might be triggered by vaccinations. That is reason enough for the medical community to circle the wagons and refute any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, that might cause people to stop vaccinating their children in large numbers.
BTW, these parents were all very well-educated and financially well-off. They were not uneducated “idiots” who were looking for a payout from the pharmaceutical industry.[/quote]
You have absolutely misinterpreted what I said. Just for clarity – I do not believe that vaccines have EVER caused autism. I do believe that people with allergies to eggs might develop a serious allergic reaction to a flu vaccine (if it’s a heat killed vaccine where the virus was grown in eggs). You and I agree that there has been no proof of a systemic sensitivity to thimerosal, therefore I do not believe that it is (was) a consideration when deciding on whether to vaccinate.
Being smart does not stop people from being misguided (Unibomber etc). As I’ve said in an earlier post I think the parents of autistic/Aspergers kids have a higher than average chance of displaying symptoms that might tend to interfere with their ability to interpret the causation of their children’s affliction.
