I came back too late to follow up on the old topics. I think there is NOT enough research on vaccinations and autism. Why do we trust they followed up the right paths? If you're older than 35 like me, look at your shot record and compare to a small child's today. By 2 years old they have double or so of what I had as a kid and I didn't see kids dropping like flies all around me growing up. My friend is a molecular biologist and stopped immunizing her kids after the 1st showed signs of autism- all other kids are fine and no one is dropping like flies from catching this or that disease. What disease? Everyone ELSE is immunized so who are they going to catch it from? I have another friend who did the same thing. Has a son w/pretty sever autism. Had another son and put off immunizations and he's MORE than fine. There needs to be research comparing families that continue to have kids with autism who do or don't do immunizations. There needs to be research on kids in 3rd world countries who have far less immunizations, if any, and compare THEIR rates of autism against the U.S. rates. Japan's rates have supposedly gone down since revised their immunization schedules and amounts.
And on the note about toxins and our endocrine systems. I acquired Grave's disease (a type of hyperthyroidism) and I wondered if there was a link there and my son's autism. In other words, my body may have already been under the fritz due to Grave's when I was pregnant with him and I don't know if my pregnancy exams would have detetected it and so forth.
We just don't KNOW and just b/c we don't KNOW doesn't mean there isn't some type of link somehow between the toxins, immunizations, endocrine systems, autism etc etc... I sometimes wonder with all the hype on Autism why their isn't MORE research - in any direction. I can't help think there is suppression in researching links with immunizations b/c of the repercussions upon the industry. Thanks for that article, it said the resraction was that the MMR vaccine can't be linked to autism. That isn't my point. My view is ALL vaccines in general on the U.S. vaccination schedule may have an affect on our autism rates. I believe the article, but it's about the comprehensive effect of immunizations and the early schedule of adminstering them and in bundles and batches that I have in question. The article only retracted ONE aspect of immunizations, not ALL. Just b/c 1 bundle can't be proven to cause autism, doesn't mean the whole schedule of vaccinations isn't having an affect on kids that have the gene that runs amok.