I think it's ridiculous that scientists are trying to present this as a strict IF/THAN scenario.

If the vaccine causes autism then it will effect all human beings equally and present the exact same symptoms at the exact same rates.

Well with those guidelines you could just as easily prove (as I pointed out before) that food allergies don't exist.

What if these perservatives or vaccine cocktails or some combination only effects 1 in 75,000? Or only 1 in 100,000 kids?

And what if -- as is most likely -- people react to the vaccines in very different ways?

Does every who gets MS or Parkinson's disease develope symptoms on the exact same timetable? What's that? THEY DON'T!?!?

Yeah, no shit.

Some people have it attack them very, very quickly....other's have it advance very slowly.

So what if we have a situation where a combination of chemicals or "preservatives" are attacking the brain and causing damage, but the result of that damage can range anywhere from "none" to "ADHD" to "full blown non-verbal autism"?

And shame on Salon for pretending that science has the "answer" as if it were handed down on a stone tablet from God.

All they've proven is that they can't find uniform specific "reactions" to these vaccines in all human beings.

That's a far, far cry from "proving" that these vaccines have absolutely no ill-effects on any human being it's given to.

Some people can smoke for 50 years and never so much as develop a cough.

Some people can smoke for 5 years and get lung cancer.

Some kids can get this vaccine and have absolutely no ill-effects.

Some might get it and not tolerate it as well as everyone else and develope a wide-range of neurlogical problems that only become apparent years down the road.

Do peanuts cause a serious allergic reaction?

Simple way to test it: gather up 1,000 people and feed them peanuts. Not one of that 1,000 had ANY adverse reaction, therefore that "proves" that peanuts do not have any harmful effect on human beings.

But we all know that's bullshit.

Food alergies are rare and vary wildly from person to person. Some can eat peanuts, but will die if they have shellfish. Some can eat shellfish, but only have a very, very mild reaction if eating certain nuts. Other may have their throats close up in minutes of eating some nuts!

So now we have a mecury-based vaccine that (in all reality) only impacts 1 out of 75,000 children and the "reactions" range wildly from severe autism to mere ADHD.

So how do you "prove" a direct link when it only effects one out of 75,000 children and even then the "reaction" to the mercury is not uniform and varies wildly from individual to invidiual (causes full blown non-verbal autism in some kids and only ADHD in others)?

Again....how do you "prove" something like that?

You can't and they didn't.

But goddamnit you don't need 15 Phd's to know that MERCURY IS A NEUROTOXIN!

An increase in WAGES would do wonders. But all CEO's in America have (apparently) sworn blood oaths on Satanic bibles that they would rather burn American to the ground than increase hourly wages from $7.25 to $8.25.

"Why that would only leave us with $12 billion in profits as opposed to $14 billion! I'd rather kill my entire family than live in a world where my company only earns a extra $12 billion!"

No shit.

That's why we're all broke and can't buy any of their products.

There is no way outta this mess. So long as every CEO in America is refusing to increase wages, then this situation will never get better. And so long as Obama has also refused (inexplicably!) to give workers the cash...there is no way out.

Every one I know is dumbfounded that Obama is cutting checks to Billionaires and thinking that it will somehow change anything.

We're broke and can't buy anything before the stimulus bill.

Obama signs the stimulus bill and...we're all still broke and can't buy anything.

clap...clap....clap....

Thanks, Obama!

If he just would've given US the cash instead of Bill Gates we all would've gone out and bought shit which is exactly what everyone is trying to get us to do. Well, we will! Just give US the damn money istead of Warren Buffet.

140 characters?

Seriously?

What's interesting is that soooo many people think that a three to four word sentence is "communicating."

Move over Hemmingway! In 2009 it's all about paring communication down to as few words as possible.

Or a single emoticon.

:-(

Wasn't eliminating language the entire goal of the Party in Orwell's "1984"? This is all doubleplus :-(

Does any actually work for a living in these movies?

EVERYONE is a writer....or a lawyer, or a doctor or some kind of unspecified ultra-high level executive.

No one actually sits at a desk all day doing data entry.

No one is actually (gasp!) fat or unattractive.

That is why this movie fails. It's the same crap over and over and over again.

I mean, what was Carrie's job in Sex & The City? Ah yes, she was a writer.

And what did her friends do again? Work 3rd shift in a factory? Nope. I believe Miranda was some kind of unspecified lawyer and the blonde one did PR (I think?) and the other one didn't actually seem to have a job now that I think about it.

Huh. Being a "writer" must not be that hard. All you have to do to succeed is just write a script wherein everyone else....are writers too!

Bleh.

Same old crap. Same old stories. Same old characters.

It is soooooo depressing that the person who wrote this script (which probably took all of 20mins to crank out) is at this very moment cashing a check for $1 million dollars.

I'm sure the writer is hard at work on their next script. This one involves an incredibly attractive lead that works as a writer and....I'm sure you can guess the rest by now.