I think Pie has access to some medical studies, but I don't know if it's all of them.
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
I am particularly convinced of Clod's earlier point that there is a genetic basis that is aggravated by some other condition.
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This is really the crux of everything. If it has a cause--and it obviously does--the CDC has an obligation to be looking for it. They are steadfastly
not looking for it, at the moment. Some might surmise this is because they know what they will find.
I was discussing this with my mom the other day, and her take on it was, "Why won't they just admit there were mistakes made and move on? Hiding something only makes it worse in the long run." What I had to explain to her is the very real financial side of it--not from the pharmaceutical companies' perspective, from the government's. Current law says that anyone damaged by a vaccine is entitled to compensation. This fund was set up from the very beginning, because they always knew there would be a very small number of people who would have complications from these shots they were mandating--anything from triggering recognized genetic conditions (as opposed to triggering autism, which is not recognized in this fashion yet) to a staph infection at the injection site spreading and causing significant damage.
The minute they acknowledge that vaccines can exacerbate autism, nevermind trigger it, they are opening themselves to quite literally billions of dollars in litigation.
Here is what is going to happen: the outcry will slowly but surely grow until, just like with thimerosal, another few Congressmen have themselves autistic grandchildren. And then Congress will pass a law requiring the CDC to moderate the vaccination schedule, regardless of what the CDC says its studies have found. The CDC will shrug and comply, insisting all the way that there is no link. Autism rates will go down, research will be able to grow without the political baggage because the decision's already been made, and in another 30 years they will be comfortable saying perhaps there was a link after all. By that point we will know so much more about treatment and recovery, and the current autistic population will have aged so much that they will not be on the hook for nearly as much money anymore.