Quote from: abrakadabra on June 19, 2013, 06:24 amI have a friend who I consider a very intelligent and reasonable person that has twin boys, now in their late teens. One is 100% "normal" and the other has sever autism and is completely unable to function and requires special care 24/7 and can not even speak or communicate.My friend told me that he is 100% certain that his son's autism was a direct result from the vaccine shots given as a child. He said his son was totally normal and even ahead of his twin in developmental progress, they took them in for the routine vaccinations and his son became sick immediately afterwards and never the same since.They eventually diagnosed him with severe autism but refused to admit any connection to the vaccinations.He is completely certain the vaccines caused his son's condition.Anyone else heard of this possible cover up?I understand that your friend is quite certain the vaccine is what caused it. But please, do not subscribe to this theory. To my knowledge there is no evidence -- none at all whatsoever -- that links vaccinations to this sort of thing. It could have been anything. It could have even been something other than a vaccine in the syringe that caused it; mistakes are extremely rare, but they do happen. Who knows. To think it's a cover up or conspiracy or that vaccines do more harm than good based solely on one case is not logical though.It really does a great deal of harm to society as a whole and all of our well being to think that just because A and B happened at approximately the same time means that A caused B. You must not let yourself see causation where there is only coincidence. The human mind is an incredibly complex and powerful thing, but intuition is prone to mistakes. The power we have as intelligent creatures is to correct those mistakes when needed.I strongly believe that your friend's intuition on the matter is such a mistake.