2011-02-04, 12:01 PM
TaliaNCo Wrote:I really hate to use this as an example but I will anyway. In my generation, and many before, our mothers smoked while pregnant with us. With the exception of one of my grandmothers, every single woman in my family smoked while pregnant. None of us had any of the complications that they've now found to be associated with smoking during pregnancy. However, decades later, the claims and the "proof" are that smoking while pregnant is harmful to the unborn fetus. So just because you say that 99% of southperry have been vaccinated but aren't autistic, doesn't mean the two can't possibly be related. It's still a matter of injecting harmful substances into the body and it's "possible" that in some, not all, could cause autism.
Genetics, my dear. The people in your family probably had a high resistance to the toxic substances within the cigarettes, and weren't affected by it. The people on Southperry, on the other hand, come from all walks of life and have very different kinds of immunities. Furthermore, there's the issue of sample size; anecdotal evidence is hardly reliable.

