Is Autism really caused by vaccines?

There has been much talk about vaccines linked to Autism. 90 percent of people say there is no connection, but the other 20 percent beg to differ. The vaccine the children are getting is MMR; measles, mumps, and rubella. The first dose of the vaccine is around 12-15 months. The second dose of vaccine is between 4-6 years of age and could be given earlier if has been 28 days since the last dose of the vaccine. (1) So what is everyone really saying? Why do they hassle doctors not to give their children vaccines and why do others follow the rules?
In Vaccines & Autism: A Deadly Manuufactroversy, Harriet Hall, MD, is proving British doctor Andrew Wakefield wrong in his article The Lancet. In this article, Wakefield says that Autism is in fact caused by the MMR vaccines. He explains that the vaccines interrupts the bowl walls and somehow it shoots the interference to the brain causing Autism. Wakefield came out in 1993 that measles RNA caused Crohn’s disease. Others went off and tried to find out if his study was right and they could not find a legitimate outcome that would make the measles vaccine cause Crohn’s disease. “10 studies showed MMR doesn’t cause autism. 6 studies showed thimerosal doesn’t cause autism and 3 studies showed thimerosal doesn’t case subtle neurological problems.” (2)
I browsed through a website called “Autism Science Foundation. It has different areas you can click on such as: how common is autism?, Early signs of Autism, Autism Diagnosis, Following a diagnosis, Treatment options, and so on. The link I found interesting is Autism and Vaccines: Recommended Reading. Of the recommended readings there are no books going against vaccinations. One title is Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All. There are 7 recommended reading total and no one of them is bashing vaccines. You can treat autism if it is caught early enough so that the child is able to understand the concept of  kindergarten. Children can be diagnosed with autism as early as 6 months. (3)
“Even among the parents who followed the recommended schedule, 25 percent said they believed delaying vaccines avoided side effects, and 29 percent thought allowing parents to skip vaccines let them avoid "those vaccines that aren't really necessary.””  In more parents think its safer to delay vaccines it force fully asks, why do you want to delay your child’s vaccines?
What good will it do? When parents delay their child’s vaccines, they don’t believe they are entitled to disease or illness out there. They think that just because their child didn’t get sick means its ok not to get vaccinated. (4)
I didn’t have a view on autism and vaccines until just know after this assignment. Before I didn’t see the disconnection from the two, neither the connection. Today I feel that vaccines do not submit autism into young children. I don’t know how else to say that there isn’t any lick of evidence linking the two. If people are so hyped and crazy about what Andrew Wakefield said then they need to find new facts because he had other mishaps in his career that were false and he also publicly apologized for false statements by him. I can’t believe how many children are not getting vaccinated. As a parent, I am furious with the amount. 20 percent of children not getting vaccinated puts my child at risk for disease. My son has been constantly sick from daycare because parents are delaying their vaccines due to laziness! Now that is a whole other chapter. But I stick by the scientists and say there is not evidence to support vaccines and autism mesh together somehow.
In the first article it talks about Wakefield saying they are linked together. But you have an Autism website that says nothing of the sort. How could people believe that the two are linked if even the Autism website isn’t saying they are linked. It is freedom of speech to be able to promote anything you want on your website. Does this mean that the autism website supports vaccines or do they just want to keep it undercover that they believe it is true?







(1) http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-mmr.pdf
(2) http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-06-03/?gclid=CJPQubWOibUCFciDQgodhnUA5g#feature
(3) http://autismsciencefoundation.org/what-is-autism/autism-diagnosis-0
(4) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44755094/ns/health-childrens_health/t/more-parents-think-its-safer-delay-vaccines/#.UQWRs79ZUs0