What's western medicine done for you lately? Well, did you die of measles yet?

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I know there are a lot of people out there who aren't sure about vaccinations, especially for kids. I always wondered where the idea that they cause autism came from. From a fraudulent study, as it turns out.

I think this one had so much traction because people like to distrust doctors.

Thanks to drhoz for the link.

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My child, and all other internationally adopted children, are subject by law and circumstance to more than the usual number of vaccinations - sometimes twice as many as children born in the US. And yet there isn't an autism epidemic among them (beyond something called 'acquired autism', which is a set of behaviors learned in the orphanage that they grow out of after a year or so).