According to “Whitecoat Tales,” he is a third year med student whose only knowledge of ASD is through his university.

I am a third year med student. My knowledge of ASD is NOT through my university. It is through science. Throughout my blog I have posted thorough references to science literature on the subject.

His university gets lots & lots of money from the pharmacy companies.

Pharma. Shill. Gambit. Since I blog anonymously, you have no idea what university I go to. You therefore have no idea IF they accept money from pharmaceutical companies at all.
Even if my university DOES accept money from pharma companies, I see no way in which it invalidates my posts, since a)I don’t get any money from big pharma, and b)I reference primary science literature.

He obviously has not read the links that people have posted on his own blog.

For shame. You obviously haven’t read my blog. I have responded to every vaccine denialist claim made on my blog, by reading their links, and correcting the mistakes found within.

The mercury preservative that is still used in vaccinations should be replaced with something less lethal like arsenic or potassium cyanide.

Disappointing. Thimerosal is no longer used in vaccines. It has never been proved to be dangerous at all, let alone as dangerous as arsenic or potassium cyanide. You have crossed the line from “ignorance” to “malicious disinformation.”

Google “minimata disease” to see the extreme symptoms of mercury poisoning.

For shame. Minimata disease is mercury poisoning from MASSIVE DOSES of mercury. The doses seen in minimata disease are literally millions of times higher than recieved in the entire vaccine schedule. Infact, a few tuna sandwiches put more mercury in your body than vaccines do.

Aluminum is called “adjuvant” in vaccine mixes because it causes the body to go on full alert. Not surprising; it as well is poisonous.

Learn immunology before you make claims about it.

No doctor knows what excess aluminum from a battery of shots does to the body.

Argument from YOUR ignorance is not an argument. Just because you don’t know doesn’t mean doctors don’t know. “excess aluminum” is incorrect. If you’ve ever eaten a small amount of aluminum foil on an overcooked piece of pizza you’ve had more aluminum than is in a battery of shots. Chemisty is far more complicated than you’re making it. A quick pubmed search on aluminum will tell you all about what aluminum toxicity is. It only occurs at doses multiple orders of magnitude higher than those given in vaccines.
I sugest you do your homework before you post here. Don’t let your beliefs get in the way of learning.

The Mennonites are not some tiny group in Waco Texas that is having trouble with inbreeding. They are a large number in settlements all over the country. People come and people go from their settlements.

Simply, patently untrue. They may not be some tiny group in waco texas, but they are absolutely an isolated genetic population.

They are the exception to getting vaccinations and in getting autism. That’s the only difference. They have been researched for autism by doctors.

Ah, research, post a citation then. Because if there is no citation, there probably was no research. If you mention Mayer Eisentien, I’ll point out that he has refused to publish the “findings” that he has few patients with autism, and refuses to return calls to researchers who have said they’d be willing to do all the work to attempt to prove his point.

But the vaccinations are already losing their effectiveness.

The only way in which vaccines are losing their effectiveness is that some groups of people aren’t using vaccines. Vaccines work in societies by herd immunity – a very large percentage must use the vaccine to protect those who haven’t.

The hospitals are becoming dangerous places to go for surgeries.

A lie, AND a complete nonsequitor. A lie because, hospitals are as safe, or safer than they have ever been. They are not “becoming” dangerous. A nonsequitor because none of the significant causes of mortality in the hospital, especially after surgery, were ever prevented by vaccines.
No one is saying vaccines will eventually prevent every disease. But they are very good at preventing diseases where there is a vaccine.

There is no vaccine protection against the swine flu that is spreading across the world right now.

Stupid example, the H1N1 swine variant is new! There could be a vaccine as early as the fall. If there is, I’ll be taking it.

Honesty is the best policy.

I agree, honesty is the best policy. Honestly, you haven’t read anything about immunology before posting about it. You haven’t read the links that people referred you to to recieve more information. You’re trying to scare people with irrelevant information.

The Mennonite communities have no cases of autism; they don’t take vaccinations with mercury preservatives

The Mennonite community is also a very limited genetic pool. How would you differentiate a genetic cause from an environmental or other cause?
The same goes for almost every limited isolated group that supposedly has no ASD.

There are numerous testimonies of healing from autism on the chelation forums.

Unfortunately, ASDs are complicated. Their course is variable. That means that things don’t always stay the same, many people improve on their own, or get worse on their own.
Those testimonials don’t really prove anything, because odds are good that the people testifying would have improved anyway. Those people who didn’t improve, don’t testify. It’s a form of survivorship bias. Thats one reason that science is important to tell us what treatments are useful.
My apologies for the textbook of a reply!