Do Vaccines Cause Autism?

A May 9, 2007 NBC news report about the possibility that vaccines may cause autism.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• autism
• vaccines

[haltopen12]

@free2bemeinnc Vaccines dont cause autism. The onset of autism would have happened whether your child had a vaccine or not. The correlation between vaccines and autism is nothing more than Post hoc ergo propter hoc

[free2bemeinnc]

Maybe not in your child, but I'm very confident that it caused autism in mine. She was a very typical child until after her immunizations at about 13 months. After that, she lost all of her language, her ability to interact with us and wouldn't respond to her name anymore. This went on until she was almost five. She is now 10.

[Tigerbabe38]

VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, MY SON HAS HAD NO VACCINES WHAT SO EVER AND HE HAS AUTISM. Sorry Guys cant blame the vaccines on this one.

[paulwady]

Child is a high-functioning Autistic

Child has an allergic reaction to a vaccine

Child’s functionality diminishes due to the allergic reaction

Parents blame vaccine for causing condition that was always present

Parents pay fortune for biomedical interventions that upgrade childs functionality

Child is able to learn to be Neurotypical again

Parents think they have healed their child from a condition placed upon it

[lancedance2]

@temtes What you just said is a load of shit the mercury in vaccines is probably nothing you could see without a microscope what he swallowed was probably a lot more then what you have in a vaccine. On top of that he bit down on it so the mercury went straight to his brain as opposed to injecting it.

[temtes]

@lancedance2 what a load of shit, my friend bit down on a mercury Thermometer when he was younger and he swallowed a very small amount of mercury, it caused brain damage, he can't walk normally, and he has severe learning problems.

yeah sure swallow enough mercury and you probably will die...but small amounts do cause severe issues, depending on the child's ability to deal with the toxin in question.

[lancedance2]

If the mercury was to affect kids then it would kill them not cause autism. But fortunately there isn't nearly enough mercury in vaccines to kill a rat. To bad some idiots don't realize this. 

[TheAtomicist42]

@stylefighterdks Your bold approach to ignorance is somewhat refreshing. I appreciate your ability to speak confidently on subjects where you have no real knowledge. However I must point out, that most of human existence has been plagued by horrendous diseases and that was a major cause in the fact that life expectancy averaged about 25 before modern technology like sanitation, medication, modern surgery and yes, VACCINES did away with many of the major health issues we face as a species.

[TheAtomicist42]

Autism is caused by random mutations. That these people's children had an adverse reaction to the vaccine is sad. But what kind of evidence do they have to support their claims? They haven't even established a correlation, much less causation. It's much more likely that one or both of them has had some environmental factor alter the chromosomes in their gametes (sperm and eggs.)

Sorry people, it's pretty much impossible to cause autism via environmental factors like vaccines.

[Applemask]

This report should consist of the word "NO" in very slow motion.