Hmmmmm,

Acorn4, Medicine is not a certainty. Public health is a matter of statistics and tradeoffs. Jeri almost died from measles, it was an inconvenience and a couple of unpleasant days off school for me.

The bureaucrats in the Dept of Health look at the odds of dying or permanent injury vs the cost and side effects of vaccine and make a decision. It is not a cut and dry choice.

I also not a Dr. But a few years ago I participated in an online depate about this and someone pointed out that the MMR shot is given about the same time that kids start to talk. So that if a kid doesn't start talking the parents go back to the last memorable event and blame it on the shots.

Getting back to my question about whether kids without the shot get autism anyway.   I think that your logic was a little flawed when you said there are other causes of autism.   The public health approach would be to compare the number of instances of children with and without the shots, with an without the symptoms to see if there is a correlation. To my knowledge there is no statistical correlation between Autism and MMR shots.

As to the Blairs, I don't see the correlation there either.