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Originally Posted by kdogg
1 . We have a good friend who works with autistic children. She said that mostly all parents have a common theme claiming vaccinations changed their children.
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So you listen to those, but ignore the parents who had vaccinations a claim they didn't change their child.. why? Why listen to one but not the other?
Or why ignore the many studies done with actual data?
You (and the other parents) are committing a very basic error in reasoning in thinking correlation equals causation.
Event A happens, then event B happens. That's correlation. The flaw is thinking that just because B followed A, A
caused B. It's flawed reasoning and drawing a conclusion on it (as you and these parents have done) is incorrect.
Children start to exhibit behaviours from autism around the same age as they receive a round of vaccines. It makes as much sense to say potty-training causes autism.
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Originally Posted by kdogg
2. Every doctor who speaks against vaccinations has their medical license taken away.
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Evidence? Sounds like something made up just to sound scary and appeal to people's sense of freedom.
And even if it were true, so? If a doctor advocated using leeches, or talked about the four humors, or wanted to do some blood letting should they have their license taken away? Is it terrible to censure a doctor who speaks out against the germ theory of disease?