Knowing the ignorance and stupidity of the anti-vaccination crowd, I’m certain that a few would stand up and say “maybe!”. Please. I might be autistic, but I’m not dead, blind, paralyzed, deaf, constantly sick, on a respirator, on a dialysis machine, looking for an organ donor…

Intelligent people shouldn’t be doing anything against the antivax movement.

No.

We should be ENCOURAGING IT.

How about them apples, you idiotic delusional religionists? Go right ahead and deny vaccines to your children.

I want you to.

i think people are very dumb and brained washed

Or maybe it is just you.

Historically some children have been harmed by some vaccines. Public health officials will say that these instances are rare, which may be true, but is of little consolation to the child affected, or his or her parents.

True. As with every medicinal product, there is a risk of harm. And I would agree that telling that to an injured person or their parent/family is of little consolation.

Mocking celebrities and parents is not sufficient though to beat concerned parents into submission.

Who is “beat[ing] concerned parents into submission”?

It is also necessary to ignore credible health officials, researchers and professionals who argue that the existing state of science does not actually disprove any connection between vaccines and autism.

Here’s where your logic fails. Researchers cannot approach the issue, stating the problem as: “Prove that vaccines don’t cause autism”. That is impossible. The best that can be accomplished (as has been done) is to show that if vaccines were truly involved in autism, it is so exceedingly rare that such a connection has never shown up in any of the studies that has looked at it; therefore, while still possible, it is highly improbable. The correct way to approach it is to attempt to prove, not that vaccines do not cause autism, but that vaccines do cause autism. You’re asking the wrong question.

While Jenny gets much ink from the “vaccines are sacred and shall not be questioned” crowd Dr. Bernadine Healy and Dr. Jon Poling who have stated that some vulnerable children may incur autism from vaccines are all ignored.

That’s because all they have offered is opinion. They have not offered evidence.

While the vaccine court decisions in which no vaccine autism connection is found are trumpeted far and wide …. and loudly, the cases like Banks and Poling, where the government folded their hand and settled before a media attracting court decision could ensure are ignored.

Interesting that you should bring up Banks and Poling, the two cases that anti-vaxers love to trot out. First, let’s look at the Poling case. This is the latter of the two cases, but the one that anti-vaxers first trotted out. The flaw with using this case is that the court decision was not that vaccines caused autism, but rather, that vaccines worsened an already existing mitochondrial disorder (MD) (note: not autism). Bear in mind that MD and autism do not go hand in hand. There are those with MD who do not have autism, just as there may be others like Hannah Poling who have MD and have been diagnosed with autism. Likewise, there are those with autism who do not have MD, and others who may have it.

The Banks case was only brought out after it was shown that the Poling case did not support the anti-vax argument. In fact, IIRC, it was several years after the Banks case that anti-vaxers started citing it. In the Banks case, remember, it was a finding that a vaccine cause acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), which is listed as a rare side effect in the vaccine’s packaging. Again, ADEM is not autism.

These two cases are not ignored. Rather, it is continually pointed out that they are not examples of the courts handing down a “vaccines cause autism” ruling.

When people like Dr. Bernadine Healy and Dr. Jon Poling argue that some autism cases might result from vaccination of some vulnerable children I am not inclined to disregard their comments.

Well, when they produce some science to back up their opinions, then I’ll take a listen to them. Until then, they are not helping anything. Indeed, they are just fanning the flames of the anti-vax movement.

Mocking celebrities and parents is not sufficient though to beat concerned parents into submission. It is also necessary to ignore credible health officials, researchers and professionals who argue that the existing state of science does not actually disprove any connection between vaccines and autism. While Jenny gets much ink from the “vaccines are sacred and shall not be questioned” crowd Dr. Bernadine Healy and Dr. Jon Poling who have stated that some vulnerable children may incur autism from vaccines are all ignored. While the vaccine court decisions in which no vaccine autism connection is found are trumpeted far and wide …. and loudly, the cases like Banks and Poling, where the government folded their hand and settled before a media attracting court decision could ensure are ignored.

I am not convinced that vaccines, and their ingredients, cause or contribute to instances of autism although I suspect they might be in some cases just as I suspect other environmental triggers might be involved. I am no longer convinced though, as I once was, by public health official statements that the science is complete, that all the research has been done and that vaccines are not, and never are, involved in causing or triggering autism. When people like Dr. Bernadine Healy and Dr. Jon Poling argue that some autism cases might result from vaccination of some vulnerable children I am not inclined to disregard their comments.