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Re:Autism and Programmers by sridharvembu on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @07:35AM (#659958)
For your information, the government recently legally conceded a case of autism-vaccine connection where the parents (both medical professionals) had a perfect record of their daughter's medical history.

Keep down-voting me; but if you have a kid, please, please investigate this before you accept conventional wisdom.

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Re:Autism and Programmers by trapper on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @08:21AM (#660009)
I know both sides. I have a friend who is one of the greatest proponents of alternative medicine treatments of autism. Both my children have been vaccinated.

http://www.babble.com.au/2009/02/24/bad-science-how-the-auti...

I shouldn't have to explain how a legal ruling doesn't equal evidence. Scientific proof is demonstrated using repeatable studies, which have been done. Go look them up.

There is no validated mechanism by which vaccines cause autism. At the moment, my money would be on things like genes (highly likely) or environmental contaminants. But, it's just speculation. We just don't know at the moment. This may be hard to accept as a parent, but it's the reality.

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