>>7524141The most obvious signs of autism tends to show up around the same time most people give kids their first vaccines. Also, people are too high on themselves to consider the possibility that their child's autism was a result of their own decisions, so finding ANY scapegoat that's not themselves is completely necessary for their understanding of the world.
Combine this with a general mistrust of authorities or the medicine industry, and the emergence of the internet which allows these loonies to spread their ideas and convince each other, and suddenly you have a whole community of self-righteous anti-vaxxers who see every attempt to convince them otherwise part of a conspiracy or part of the sheeple.
Of course, it would be interesting to compare the statistics for autism in vaccinated and non-vaccinated kids. Does anyone know if there's a study like this? However, until I see any evidence to the contrary I remain convinced that the age of the parents, or how often they smoke or drink, have a higher correlation with autism than vaccinations do.
