As someone who works with these children here are some things you should be aware of

1. You can't "cure" autism because they don't know what causes it.
2. there is no evidence to prove vaccines are the cause. Children are diagnosed with Autism from ages 1-5 which yes is around the time they are vacinated.
3. Children are diagnosed with Autism by watching behaviors, meaning there is no blood test or brain scan to find it. you can't cure behaviors, only help a child adjust and cope
4. the most popular belief is that you can be genetically predisposed and have an environmental factor help kick it in
5. There is no research to prove special diets help
6. Anecdotal evidence IS NOT scientific!
7. every child with autism is special and unique

Moving this video to marinara's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

Finally, proof that all of this is crap: http://www.videosift.com/video/Do-Vaccines-Cause-Autism-A-Detailed-Examination

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Modern medicine had been wrong before so who knows. I remember back in my high school years when my biology teacher argued that what happens to a mother during pregnancy has no effect to the fetus because there are no scientific data to prove anything. I argued that what moms do while pregnant has tremendous affect on the baby. He pointed out that there's no scientific evidence of it NOT having any effect either. So we just had to leave it at that. This was 10 years ago.


Nowadays recent studies show that excessive stress causes increased rate of heart disease in new borns later in life. We also have evidence of mother's dietary habits effecting the new born's diet. We already know that smoking or drinking while pregnant causes major damage to fetus growth. So now we know that what moms experience during pregnancies have long lasting effects to the baby, but just 10 years ago the western medical community deemed the idea unscientific and treated it as just another old wives tale.


Now that I think about it, Mr. Jones, the biology teacher was somewhat of a provocateur and was egging me on to do research on it I believe. And it worked, I suppose. Although I'm not in the medical field, the very subject we have discussed that day has kept me interested in finding out the answer ever since.

In any rate medical communities can be wrong, and I'm speaking to both parties here right now. One side says it has no link between autism and vaccinations, other side says there is a correlation. Who knows. There's no hard evidence to make the case since most evidence for or against it are still in early stages of research.

So give it time and collect more data.

The data has been in for long time towards the benefits of vaccines on society. Having Jenny McCarthy on a news network is a failure to be a news network. Fine she's a celebrity,........But this is a trash interview. Her ignorance is dangerous.