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Originally Posted by Homesteaded
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I'm not doom and gloom. Just concerned with trends.
Speaking of the Amish, they don't get vaccinated. Guess what else they don't get, Autism, auto-immune disease.
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This is why I feel bad for the misinformation fed by right consulting echo chambers.
“This concept gained traction in 2005, when reporter Dan Olmstead conducted a a non-scientific survey in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (which boasts one of the largest populations of Amish people) to find cases of autism. Controversially, he claimed he could find only three.”
But, a majority of them do vaccinate to some degree.
Furthermore, researchers have documented many cases of autism amongst the Amish populations. Researchers from the University of Miami and Vanderbilt University interviewed 1,899 Amish children from two prominent Amish communities in Holmes County, Ohio and Elkhart-Lagrange County, Indiana.
Additionally, there is an actual clinic (The Clinic for Special Children) devoted to researching developmental diseases in Amish children and this clinic (among many other things) actively researches the occurrence of autism in Amish (and Mennonite) communities. This center is located in Lancaster, PA - the same place that Dan Olmstead searched for cases of Autism in 2005.