Pseudoscience are scientific things that are make believe or imaginary. pseudoscience is non-provable science which stems from a wish to probe something in this case. it is a vague inclination that something might be possible like time travel. these do not have scientific proof to them which is why they are called in essence fake science. the theory that vaccines may be under this category is what i will be testing in my paper. the idea that vaccines may cause autism is widely proved to be an unprovable claim.
About.com seems to say that there is definitive proof that it does not and that rumor is caused by parents who have children that develop autism. they like to blame their kid's autism on vaccines. the dispute is not mainly between scientists and scientists, but scientsist and the parents looking for an answer. although vaccines can have side effects, autism is not one of them. it could also be dangerous to the kid because like any unvaccinated kid, they will be more seceptable to diseases.
Parents fight mounting scientific evidence that the MMR or measles, mumps and rubella, which are three of the shots infants are required to have, do not cause autism. "The latest study exonerating the MMR vaccine comes from Denmark, where investigators looked at the health records of every child born from 1991 through '98, more than 537,000 children" (Gorman). since denmark is known for providing accurate medical reasearch, when these findings were published in the new england medical journal, it was highly believed. the fact that the mercury in the chemical called thermosal was causing the autism but since there is so little of it, mercury causes moement disorders which is not a characteristic of autism and additionally, no link between autism and mercury has been found, this theory is disproved. another reason given is, "There is no scientific evidence or logical reason to believe that autism has a toxic cause" ("Misconceptions About Immunization").
Today, every child that has enough money is vaccinated and brands like pampers donate money so that babies in poor countries can be vaccinated. it has grown more and more important than ever. Articlesbase.com says that the only way to explain how only 25 years ago the chances of a child having autism were 1:10,000 and today they are 1:110 is onl explained by the rise and need for vaccinations. more and more vaccinations for all ages are becoming required in schools and colleges to be able to attend. autism does not pick and choose its victems because they all have these vaccines in common. for a kid to be considered fully vaccinated, they will have 36 vaccines by the age of 2. even if one vaccine does not have very much mercury, that many vaccines would.
About.com seems to say that there is definitive proof that it does not and that rumor is caused by parents who have children that develop autism. they like to blame their kid's autism on vaccines. the dispute is not mainly between scientists and scientists, but scientsist and the parents looking for an answer. although vaccines can have side effects, autism is not one of them. it could also be dangerous to the kid because like any unvaccinated kid, they will be more seceptable to diseases.
Parents fight mounting scientific evidence that the MMR or measles, mumps and rubella, which are three of the shots infants are required to have, do not cause autism. "The latest study exonerating the MMR vaccine comes from Denmark, where investigators looked at the health records of every child born from 1991 through '98, more than 537,000 children" (Gorman). since denmark is known for providing accurate medical reasearch, when these findings were published in the new england medical journal, it was highly believed. the fact that the mercury in the chemical called thermosal was causing the autism but since there is so little of it, mercury causes moement disorders which is not a characteristic of autism and additionally, no link between autism and mercury has been found, this theory is disproved. another reason given is, "There is no scientific evidence or logical reason to believe that autism has a toxic cause" ("Misconceptions About Immunization").
Today, every child that has enough money is vaccinated and brands like pampers donate money so that babies in poor countries can be vaccinated. it has grown more and more important than ever. Articlesbase.com says that the only way to explain how only 25 years ago the chances of a child having autism were 1:10,000 and today they are 1:110 is onl explained by the rise and need for vaccinations. more and more vaccinations for all ages are becoming required in schools and colleges to be able to attend. autism does not pick and choose its victems because they all have these vaccines in common. for a kid to be considered fully vaccinated, they will have 36 vaccines by the age of 2. even if one vaccine does not have very much mercury, that many vaccines would.
