I'm just going to play devil's advocate for a moment.
The Amish community as a sample group makes this a flawed study from the get-go, because they have so many other differences in lifestyle, diet and environmental factors that it's difficult to isolate this one particular difference as being the key factor in the low occurrence of autism.
However, even if vaccines don't cause autism: this study makes it pretty clear that modernity in general definitely plays a role.
On top of that, I've seen a number of studies that show a strong correlation between parental age at birth and ASD occurrence. The older the parents, the more likely the child is to develop autism.
And the Amish start earlier, which means that even if they have the same amount of kids as another family they will also be stopping earlier.
We could probably sit here all day listing factors that probably contribute just as much as vaccines speculatively. Which is the point of "science and control groups." To remove as many of those as possible to try and only measure the singular variable.
I'm just going to play devil's advocate for a moment.
The Amish community as a sample group makes this a flawed study from the get-go, because they have so many other differences in lifestyle, diet and environmental factors that it's difficult to isolate this one particular difference as being the key factor in the low occurrence of autism.
However, even if vaccines don't cause autism: this study makes it pretty clear that modernity in general definitely plays a role.
Yeah, its equally likely to be our diet, chemicals in any number of random things around us, or even just electrical waves from things radiating.
Shit it could even not be the vaccines themselves but other random garbage they shove into it because they can, like fluoride in our water.
On top of that, I've seen a number of studies that show a strong correlation between parental age at birth and ASD occurrence. The older the parents, the more likely the child is to develop autism.
And the Amish start earlier, which means that even if they have the same amount of kids as another family they will also be stopping earlier.
We could probably sit here all day listing factors that probably contribute just as much as vaccines speculatively. Which is the point of "science and control groups." To remove as many of those as possible to try and only measure the singular variable.