Today, the federal Court of Claims ruled against parents who have autistic children, finding that there is no link between vaccines and autism. I sympathize with the parents, autism is awful and frightening, and raising an autistic child can be exhausting. However, blaming vaccines is the wrong way to try and make sense of the condition.
This is an example of when conspiracy theories can cause a great deal of harm to those who follow them. Vaccines remain one of the most important developments in medicine of all time, one of the best ways to ensure that you and your children don't suffer serious but easily preventable diseases.
However, due to the fictitious link between vaccinations and autism, more parents are opting out. Because vaccines work best when there is not a large, unvaccinated population for the disease to survive and mutate in, this trend of opting out is putting everyone at risk.
The court demonstrated here that there is no link between vaccines and autism, the main proponent of the link has been shown to be falsifying his data, and all science points against the link. Hopefully today's ruling will ensure that parents continue to get their child vaccinated. There is just no excuse.
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