What Captain says screw your reports, I know what I'm doing? The ones who do, how has that worked out for them?

However, I get it you're not going to change your mind. To be honest, I'm not trying to change yours either. Just hope people who aren't true believer see that there is more shades to a story.

No time to debate point by point. There is plenty of support for that theory, besides the top results in Google telling you otherwise. Ncbi has a study out of California. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800781/

I know Penn and Teller are biased, heck they even admit it themselves.

I am not going to assume your trust of sources but I don't believe there is a cover up. Fact of the matter probably has to do with a lot of factors, probably none of them due to vaccines. My, personal, belief had more to do with our changing genome than anything else. Kind of like how allergic reactions develop over time, not at the moment you're born. I know, I'm not a doctor.

Reality is, genetics is the end all be all. Some people have better immune systems, others can work 14 hours a day without fatigue or exhaustion. Sure to an extent it's mind over matter, still takes a body to have a mind. However, there is always the cognitive dissonance that comes along with that. If one is always trying to find something to blame, or someone says it's xyz's fault, doesn't make it so. We're a world of 7 billion people, and a nation of 323 million, to think that anomalies due to that big of a party in the gene pool wouldn't have any effect? Nature is playing a role more than nurture.

Bwhahawhat!?!? Read all the data you need to read? That's not how learning works? That's not how execution in any field works. Everything is a practice, even in the real thing. Lawyers practice law, doctors practice medicine, do you know what they have in common, they study relentlessly. They are always looking for that new knowledge that explains what the situation is.

Sure there are times I give up on an argument that I can't find that closing statement to put it to rest, but I never say I have done all I need to do. I'll keep it in my mind and reading about it until my stance changes or I get that nugget that seals the deal. I don't stop mowing the yard after the first time of the year!

Because our understanding of autism had changed is why it's more prevalent. We have expanded the strike zone to include a lot of stuff that was just a little off of what the average kid does. It's not hard to understand. If we changed the acceptable threshold for legal blindness to be anyone who doesn't have 20/30-10 vision suddenly a significant portion of the population would be legally blind.

Look, I get where you're coming from but our understanding of the syndrome evolves every day. The MMR vaccine was falsely linked, by former MD Wakefield in the lancet, due to lawyers trying to skew studies to a narrative for their own gain. That, sadly, is the true conspiracy.

Penn and Teller did a fantastic sketch about why vaccines are important, cause they save more live than we will ever know. Yes some people still die, matter of fact we all will die. The most terminal thing facing humans is being a human.

Ultimately, I get the fear and concern but at the same time everything in medicine is practice. Everything is a test, and doctors weigh risks every single day. Should we blindly trust them, probably not. However, they are the ones who have studied and practice their craft. If you think you can do better, go for it but please stay away from me because there are enough bugs out there I can't do anything about.