Fair enough, I just have trouble with the incredible denial about vaccine injury and parents being left in the lurch when their whole child's being has changed over night; even if it is an the incredible low percentile. What worries is the less obvious more subtle of these same reactions, low to moderate encephalitis type reactions, but this is pure speculation though and near impossible to prove, we can still not even prove or test for encephalitis/inflammation in people who clearly have it, at least without spinal taps and extensive costly immune testing. Anyway I have also stated much earlier already I think autism is likely due to reactions of many environmental factors (toxins, pollutants), with genetic factors, something has changed in recent decades to be making the numbers spiral. Some can even possibly be behavioral/misdiagnosis and treatable with the right care (hard to find).

I agree genes are fairly fixed but they also clearly mutate and change during the course of a life time and then can be passed down, radiation exposure is an extreme example. Everyone does try and adapt to their surrounding, just as every animal does, how well depends on circumstance as much as anything, especially in the natural world, abundance quality and type of resources, adaptations to threats, ingenuity.

Of course, our gene pool is forever adapting. New sequences being added, but rarely is it the case that our existing genes are directly modified in any way.
Personally, I can't stand the anti-vaccination argument myself. It has a minuscule downside compared to a massive upside for the mass majority of humanity

Serum sickness and anaphylaxis, namely. These can be avoided by getting allergy tested before getting vaccinated.

too bad vaccines aren't active bacteria/virus. They are deactivated lol.

LOL? what does anything in your stomach have to do with autism?

Potentially a lot, linked to MS now apparently Parkinsons as well,

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-parkinson-disease-gut.html

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00401-014-1343-6

Gut brain connection is a big thing, potentially linked to a whole host of issues, your gut bacteria not functioning properly can easily directly impact your brain function. Of course treating it, for different conditions involves integrative medicine opposed to the singularity nature of a pharma drug, so do not expect much mainstream progress in the area.

This post was edited by Psychonautica on Oct 23 2014 05:41am

not reading anyone elses post just going to say this : jenny mcarthy (an uneducated pornstar) self diagnosed her sons autism and then cured it with backrubs (some tai chi massage or some shit), and a healthy diet (whatever a porn star considers healthy) and andrew wakefeild http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy scammy as fuck, is the only reason this controversy even exists, look where it started, then see why i think this is a ridiculous discussion.

Yep was readin bout it

Philosophical argument more than an empirical one

Philosophical? What a dumb comment, not to mention I am not arguing anything, just presenting possibilities and information, there are no definitive answers here.

Gut brain connection is complicated and I believe fairly new research wise.

All kinds of things can happen in the gut to cause a whole host of other issues, especially behavioural and mentally.

I am sure there are endless amounts of information on it online if anyone is actually curious, I am also certainly not suggesting this is a cause of autism, but it could play a roll in some cases.

http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=autism+gut+brain+connection&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=QKxQVMyVHtjf8AWik4D4Cg&sqi=2&ved=0CBoQgQMwAA

This post was edited by Psychonautica on Oct 29 2014 02:58am