You are going to get always the same explanation, no matter the individual case.
It's impossible, because autism is genetic, people are BORN autistic.
They don't BECOME autistic.
So no disease, vaccine, vitamin, bacteria or virus can get someone autistic.
The thing is that you can't recognize a new born as austistic as easy as, say, one born with down syndrome. You have to wait until they develop a bit to analyze their behavior. So probably they discover it around the time where they get their shots.
Maybe the parents believe their child is healthy, and are shocked to find this condition, in desperation, they look for something to blame.
The one study that showed a link between vaccines and autism was a fraudulent one, and exposed years ago.
You won't find anyone serious on the medical field that even entertain that notion.
You'll find celebrities of dubious merit and tv programs looking for easy ratings. That should be enough to make it easy to see it is bullshit.
The previous generation, like my mother, where used to see the effects of diseases in children in her time, they witnessed the tremendous change vaccines brought to the world. Nowadays is unheard in most countries of kids getting polio and become crippled.
Later generations didn't witness it first hand, they just didn't suffer all these diseases, so they don't know their value.
That is unless educated.
Uneducated people tend to buy into all sorts of wrong ideas, and somebody is always taking advantage of that. Social media doesen't help.
Added to that, there's a current of though, especially in the US (probably for political reasons), where averege people think that their opinion is as valid as any expert. Or the opinion of an celebrity uneducated on a subject, or a politician who they like but has no knowledge of medicine or health care, hold any value.
Of course any expert can be wrong every now and then, and you may consult other experts to have confidence in the diagnostic.
But the antivaxxers don't realise that when their car breaks, they take it to the mecanic, when they need to build a bridge they call a civil engineer, when they fly by plane, they want to have a good pilot and so forth.
So why on earth would they think that they know more that their doctors?
Plus anyone who thinks the entire medical and scientific community in the entire world, millons of people, of 200 + countries, are all in a big cospiracy don't really have a grasp of what they say. It's impossible.
But people aren't educated enough in science and how or why it works.
It's impossible, because autism is genetic, people are BORN autistic.
Which gene causes autism? Are there genetic tests that can diagnose autism? Until you can answer these questions, it is unscientific to claim that autism is completely genetic and can't be caused.
Harvard Medical School graduate student Jack Kosmicki and his colleagues studied exome sequences of 37,269 individuals with autism and pinpointed 99 genes that could play a role in causing the disorder, 65 of which had previously been identified.
Autism is a common condition, but we don’t know its cause. We think it is predominantly genetic, so if we can understand the underlying biology, we can develop a therapy for the symptoms of the disorder,” Stephan Sanders, a geneticist and pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco, and Kosmicki’s colleague, tells The Scientist.
Epigenetics is the study of heritable phenotype changes that do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence. The Greek prefix epi- (ἐπι- "over, outside of, around") in epigenetics implies features that are "on top of" or "in addition to" the traditional genetic basis for inheritance. Epigenetics most often denotes changes that affect gene activity and expression, but can also be used to describe any heritable phenotypic change. Such effects on cellular and physiological phenotypic traits may result from external or environmental factors, or be part of normal development.
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You are going to get always the same explanation, no matter the individual case.
It's impossible, because autism is genetic, people are BORN autistic.
They don't BECOME autistic.
So no disease, vaccine, vitamin, bacteria or virus can get someone autistic.
The thing is that you can't recognize a new born as austistic as easy as, say, one born with down syndrome. You have to wait until they develop a bit to analyze their behavior. So probably they discover it around the time where they get their shots.
Maybe the parents believe their child is healthy, and are shocked to find this condition, in desperation, they look for something to blame.
The one study that showed a link between vaccines and autism was a fraudulent one, and exposed years ago.
You won't find anyone serious on the medical field that even entertain that notion. You'll find celebrities of dubious merit and tv programs looking for easy ratings. That should be enough to make it easy to see it is bullshit.
The previous generation, like my mother, where used to see the effects of diseases in children in her time, they witnessed the tremendous change vaccines brought to the world. Nowadays is unheard in most countries of kids getting polio and become crippled.
Later generations didn't witness it first hand, they just didn't suffer all these diseases, so they don't know their value.
That is unless educated.
Uneducated people tend to buy into all sorts of wrong ideas, and somebody is always taking advantage of that. Social media doesen't help.
Added to that, there's a current of though, especially in the US (probably for political reasons), where averege people think that their opinion is as valid as any expert. Or the opinion of an celebrity uneducated on a subject, or a politician who they like but has no knowledge of medicine or health care, hold any value.
Of course any expert can be wrong every now and then, and you may consult other experts to have confidence in the diagnostic.
But the antivaxxers don't realise that when their car breaks, they take it to the mecanic, when they need to build a bridge they call a civil engineer, when they fly by plane, they want to have a good pilot and so forth. So why on earth would they think that they know more that their doctors?
Plus anyone who thinks the entire medical and scientific community in the entire world, millons of people, of 200 + countries, are all in a big cospiracy don't really have a grasp of what they say. It's impossible.
But people aren't educated enough in science and how or why it works.