There are lots of perspectives on this thread. No one is more valid that another-- opinions are opinions. I would just like to suggest that like with other spectral diseases/disorders, we look at diagnosis methods among physicians to get a better understanding of just how wide this spectrum is.

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What?!

Or:

These forward thinking vets also decided to remove thimerosal from animal vaccines in 1992, and yet this substance, which is 49% mercury, is still in human vaccines. Don't our children deserve as much consideration as our pets?

How many logical fallacies in this one statement alone? There's Appeal to Authority, Weasel Words, Bandwagon Fallacy, Poisoning the Well/Loaded Question, and Observational Selection. 5 fallacies? Wow. Oh, and let's remember that currently except for some influenza vaccines, vaccines that did have Thimerisol, had it removed ~2001. There of course, were some that NEVER had it, like the MMR, Chicken Pox, Polio, etc.. But he won't mention that. He'll assert that the common vaccines we give kids aren't fit for dogs.

And here's a gem,

Dr. Frank Engly, a researcher and microbiologist who served on the boards of the CDC, FDA and EPA during the 70s and 80s, warned:

The CDC cannot afford to admit thimerosal is toxic because they have been promoting it for several years...If they would have followed through with our 1982 report, vaccines would have been freed of thimerosal and all this autism as they tell me would not have occurred. But as it is, it all occurred.

Wow, bringing in a Dr.'s statement, which refers to a substance that was never in most vaccines, and refers to what "he was told". And of course, he doesn't mention that after ~2001, when the thimerisol was removed, rates of Autism continued to rise. But since this Dr. wasn't told that, he won't repeat it.

You know, I wish I HADN'T read this. I would think higher of Mr. Carrey if I didn't read that.

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The tactic that Carrey is using is called "moving the goalposts".

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I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe. If the vaccine companies are not listening to us, it's their f___ing fault that the diseases are coming back. They're making a product that's s___. If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

Yet, they keep moving the goalpost when it comes to what makes them "unsafe". At first it was the mercuray. When that was disproven, they changed their tactics. Again, to quote the science-tit:

We don't believe it's only the mercury. Aluminum and other toxins also play a role. The viruses in the vaccines themselves can be causing it, too

So the measles virus MAY be causing Autism, and until they get the Measles virus out of vaccines, she advocates people NOT taking it. I mean, how can you say "I'm not anti-vaccine" when you say the virus the vaccine prevents might have to be removed. What is the vaccine for then?

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To a lesser degree, I put Sylvia Brown on the list, b/c people believe her, and I only think it's b/c she's a woman. I doubt John Edwards could get away with, "Your kid, she's dead."

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Remember that every dollar that gets spent researching a discredited theory like this one is a dollar that isn't going to some other research that could actually benefit humanity much more.

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The "doctors reccomending ciggarettes" thing isn't the same. Those were often personal reccomendations or came from the ciggarette company's internal research. This isn't at all comparable to dozens of NIH funded, national studies.

Every penny we spend on vaccine research foir autism is a penny that isn'rt spent on enviromental and genetic factors.

Plus, a lot of companies have left the vaccine business since the 80s. If we continue to focus them, some might throw in the towel, which could leave us with no vaccine.

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It's not like science is a single body of knowledge that encompasses all scientific ideas, ever, and that the preponderance of terrible ideas in the past discredits current scientific thinking.

A lot of folks try and use the "Scientists used to think that the world was getting too COLD!" argument to try and discredit Global Warming. That scientists were wrong thirty years ago doesn't really matter--that's not how science works.

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@LetsHaveAKeithParty: dude the oops story already came out on this topic: [briandeer.com]

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