The thing that got me, once I did the math on it, is that even if you assume all the anti-vax foam-at-the-mouth 'statistics' are valid, and take the overall prevalence of autism 'caused by' vaccines, in their view ...
it's still less common than intersex conditions. Which are never, ever mentioned in any parenting book I've come across; I only knew about them and prepared myself ahead of time for the possibility because I'M QUEER and knew intersex people through being in GLBTQIA organizations.
I'm not saying intersex is COMMON; I'm saying it's distinctly more common, statistically, than the anti-vaxers claim vaccine-caused autism is.
We're worrying about the wrong things, societally ...
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-11-08 04:26 pm (UTC)it's still less common than intersex conditions. Which are never, ever mentioned in any parenting book I've come across; I only knew about them and prepared myself ahead of time for the possibility because I'M QUEER and knew intersex people through being in GLBTQIA organizations.
I'm not saying intersex is COMMON; I'm saying it's distinctly more common, statistically, than the anti-vaxers claim vaccine-caused autism is.
We're worrying about the wrong things, societally ...