Autistic woman's heart-wrenching Facebook post wins the "anti-vaxxing" argument

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33. Correct, and diverting money to investigating Wakefield's claims has diverted it away

from research into more appropriate treatments. By now, we might have medications that would allow autistic people and Aspies to cope with sensory overload without a meltdown, especially for kids.

I agree that most of the Aspies I've gotten to know over the years would devastate the average medically ignorant, self righteous antivaxer by letting them know in no uncertain terms that (1) science works and bullshit doesn't, (2) Aspies aren't particularly broken, so there is no crying need to fix them and (3) thimerosal was removed from vaccines over a decade ago and the diagnosis rate continues to climb.

If anything comes out of this, I hope it's that California reinstitutes common sense public health policy that keeps antivaxer kids out of day cares and public schools. That silly "conscience" exemption has gotten them nothing but outbreaks of easily prevented diseases.