Question: when was it settled science that vaccinations don't cause autism?

[Douglas Carpenter]

131. no an irritated throat and lung cancer are obviously not two different types of cancer affected

only by the degree of severity and life threatening conditions. However a person with a treatable melanoma and lung cancer do both have a form of cancer. Even if we limited the discussion to lung cancers we would have a wide range of levels of severity.

There are many, many nonverbal and totally withdrawn classic autistics who can write like University professors especially utilizing appropriate electronic technology. People who only two decades ago would have been dismissed as mentally retarded and no doubt and no doubt many still are . Are these little professors _ as Hans Asperger called them -any less classic autistic? Temple Grandin whose work in animal husbandly revolutionized slaughterhouse techniques in North America was diagnosed as full blown Autism at the time when it was frequently called "Childhood Schizophrenia and was totally nonverbal until she was about eight years of age. Her parents were advised to have her permanently institutionalized. Yet her writings on biology, animal husbandry, and autism practically caused a revolution in how autism is views.

There may be many disagreements in the scientific community's understanding of autism - There is almost no disagreement among serious researchers that like every other physical, psychiatric, medical and neurological condition known to science there is a vast range in degrees of severity. Lacking intelligence or human feelings are not and have never been a criteria to define autism.