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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Simple reason - more vaccines have a direct coorelation to autism.  Autism rates have dramatically increased from the 1980s to 2024, rising from roughly 1 in 2,500 in the early '80s to about 1 in 36 children by the early 2020s.[/quote]
Here are some other things that “correlate” with the increase in autism diagnoses since the 1980s: 
-increased use of seatbelts
-reduced rates of smoking
-declining use of fax machines
-increased television flatness
-reduced consumption of Aquanet
-decline in the frequency of Molly Ringwald movies

All of these have changed at the same time autism diagnoses have increased. That is not evidence that they cause autism. [/quote]

I’m not the person you’re responding to, but I think your response—while technically correct (I assume; not exactly a Molly Ringwald buff :-))— is, in my view, somewhat harmful.

It is, I believe, basically a scientific truth that autism is associated with indicia of immune abnormality. Just to take a few examples, I don’t think any serious scientist would dispute that research suggests that, compared with their neurotypical counterparts, children who go on to have autism tend, as a group, to have more ear infections, require antibiotics more frequently, have disrupted gastrointestinal microbiota, have higher circulating levels of cytokines associated with an immune response, and were born following pregnancies in which the mom underwent an immune response. Does that mean that vaccines cause autism? Of course not. But it does mean that if we stigmatize discussions of immunology when we’re discussing autism, we risk stigmatizing potentially important research into a debilitating and poorly understood condition. [/quote]

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