The Independent: Italian court rules MMR vaccine did trigger autism

[Ms. Toad]

119. You indicated we know how vaccines work.

I deliberately chose articles which support the broad conclusion you reach to demonstrate from a source you are likely to accept that despite having been used for decades, we really have some significant gaps in our knowledge, specifically we do not know how some of the adjuvants work. If I had cited a source for that proposition that reached a different general conclusion, you would have rejected it as "woo-woo."

The recent research into autoimmune disorders suggests that most are caused by one or more genetic predispositions combined with one or more triggers. My concerns with vaccines are primarily in connection with autoimmune disorders other than autism - and one specific concern I have is that adjuvants, which are deliberately added to vaccines with the intent of altering the immune response, may be one of the environmental triggers.

Researchers have observed a correlation between adjuvants some autoimmune disorders, and are doing further research to see what that correlation might mean. That is the second set of links in my last post.

As to why the explosion of autism in the last few decades - why the explosion of all sorts of immune diseases? One of my daughter's diseases is statistically a disease of 40 year old men - yet there is a rapidly increasing subpopulation of children manifesting the disease between age 2-21, unheard of just a few years ago. The childhood incidence of her second autoimmune disease increased 1100% starting in the '90s, based on a 60 year study that was just completed. I don't have an answer as to why - but that dramatic increase in many immune disorders is another reason we ought not just sit on our laurels, smug that we know everything about the safety of vaccines with respect to a rapidly growing population which is vulnerable to environmental triggers.