Nope, if they had all the evidence they would know why autoimmune disorders are skyrocketing.
Its not just autism, but
type I diabetes too.
Oh oh oh me me me!!!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841828/
Hmm what if they are close and just missing the mark a little bit. What role do you think vaccines could be playing in this?
You know, in the last 200 years there has been a dramatic decline in the number of pirates in the world? Maybe pirates were protective against autoimmune disorders? There also has been a decline in the number of whales and tigers? Perhaps whales and tigers are protective against type 1 diabetes and as we kill them off we are creating an epidemic?
If you really want to talk about vaccines and autoimmune disorders, here's the truth. The difference in vaccination rates here and in most african countries is not that different. I think some of the lowest rates are like 70% in some the worst countries whilst here its in the very high 90s for the most part. However if you look at the rates of systemic lupus erythematosus in western africa, one of the most common and autoimmune disorders we see, you'll see that lupus simply does not happen in Africa. However, if you look at african americans (even the first set of kids of recent immigrants) here, you'll see that lupus is one of the most common autoimmune disorders to affect group. The difference in vaccination rates doesn't correlate at all with differences in lupus rates between the two regions.
Here's what you should know:
1) most autoimmune disorders have no clear cause. The pathophysiology of a lot of these disorders is well described, but the initial trigger (ie why 1 person gets it and another doesn't) has not been worked out. We know there are some strong genetic predispositions (ie if you mother had lupus or diabetes type 1, you have a much higher risk than the average person, if you're a twin and your twin has it, your risk is through the roof) and for some disorders there are a few known environmental triggers (coxsackie virus implicated as triggering type 1 DM through molecular mimicry, streptococcal infection with rheumatic fever, etc), but for the majority we really don't know why these diseases happen or why the rate is changing. I think some of the increase is how aggressively we test and screen for diabetes (before you just died. Now you die with a diagnosis. Before your introverted kid was just "funny", now he has autism). Some of it is probably environmental (we eat differently, we grow food differently, we are exposed to different types of air and water than say 70 years ago). No one really knows. But to jump off the deep end and say well maybe its vaccines with no credible evidence is asinine especially when vaccines have had a tremendous effect on a child's likelihood to see a healthy adulthood.
I will say there has been a bit of traction for the idea that we are too clean, that things your body should have learned to handle well it never gets to learn and so with all the idle time your immune system has to not have to fight anything, it eventually turns on itself in the form of allergic disorders, diabetes type 1, and etc. If you look at African countries, lupus is unheard off, but in african americans here its very very common. There are also rare reports of people being able to essentially cure their autoimmune disorders by given themselves chronic infections such as tapeworms and other parasites, against suggestive of perhaps an idle immune system that just needs something to fight. I personally however just think the rise is due to an increasingly technological medical community and rising standards on the degree of medical accuracy needed. If you find a 75 year old man today and ask him how his parents died, they often don't have a clue other than cases of clear accidental trauma. Today however if you die,you die with the correct diagnosis and everybody knows about it. But that's just my opinion.
I never said there was medical evidence for not taking vaccines on schedule as per CDC guidelines. In fact, I specifically pointed out taking a lot of vaccines all at once, and specifically used the word anecdotal when describing a story. And I get vaccinated more than 99% of the population, no problems so far...which is why I ended with staying on schedule with vaccinations, but avoiding getting a vaccine dump if you can. Because, why not just stay on schedule, or stay ahead of the game instead of waiting till the last minute for a bunch of vaccines?
There is no medical evidence suggesting that too many vaccines at once is bad but spreading them out is good. The current vaccine schedule for kids can call for 3 vaccines at once, sometimes more. A 65 year old man in this country can also receive 3 or 4 vaccines at once (shingles, pneumonia vaccine, a TdAP and a yearly flu vaccine may all end up falling on your 65th birthday). Whats important is to stay on schedule because the schedule is designed around expected declines in immune response to these vaccines. With adults its less important because you're talking 10 year windows for some of these vaccines, but with kids some of the initial windows are months, meaning if you delay a couple of extra months the kid may have no protection because his immunity has waned. There's a reason why the vaccine schedule for kids is so heavy: it takes multiple vaccines to create the long lasting immunization we need as adults, with each exposure creating a slightly longer window of immunization. However, those initial windows can be very short.
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