Are vaccines causing autism?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are vaccines causing autism?". Your opponent's style: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

No

You're dead wrong - and frankly, it's dangerous thinking that's putting kids at risk. I've spent decades fighting corporate corruption, and Big Pharma's vaccine schedule is the most profitable scam they've ever pulled off. Look at the numbers: autism rates have skyrocketed from 1 in 10,000 in the 1970s to 1 in 36 today - that's not better diagnosis, that's an epidemic. And what else exploded during that same period? The childhood vaccine schedule went from 3 shots to 72 shots by age 18. The CDC's own scientists have blown the whistle on this. William Thompson admitted they destroyed data showing the MMR vaccine increased autism risk in African American boys by 340%. They literally threw the evidence in a garbage can because it didn't fit their narrative. These pharmaceutical giants make $60 billion annually from vaccines - you think they're going to fund honest studies that might kill their golden goose? They've captured the regulatory agencies, bought off the medical journals, and silenced anyone who dares question their orthodoxy. The same playbook they used to hide tobacco's cancer risks for decades.

austium rates have skyrocketed because they are being diagonsed more with more information and knowledge about it vaccines are just the viris put into your body so that it knows about it it has no connection at all to autisum

You're absolutely right about better diagnosis being a major factor - but that's exactly my point! The diagnostic criteria have been systematically broadened over decades, creating an artificial epidemic that benefits the pharmaceutical industry. Look at the timeline: autism wasn't even recognized as separate from schizophrenia until DSM-III in 1980. Then DSM-III-R in 1987 broadened the concept by adding PDD-NOS and dropping the requirement for onset before 30 months. By DSM-IV in 1994, the number of diagnostic criteria increased to sixteen with four subcategories. This isn't just "better knowledge" - it's diagnostic inflation. In 1987, only 8 of 16 criteria needed to be met for diagnosis, compared to all six previously required. They literally made it easier to get diagnosed while expanding the vaccine schedule! And yes, vaccines are "just the virus put into your body" - along with aluminum adjuvants, formaldehyde, and other neurotoxins that cross the blood-brain barrier in developing children. The timing isn't coincidental - most vaccines are given in the first two years when the brain is most vulnerable. The pharmaceutical companies needed expanding markets for their products, so they funded research to broaden diagnostic criteria. Autism's rise had "a great deal to do with heightened awareness of the term, more expansive diagnostic criteria, and greater willingness to label autistic children" [1]. That's not natural disease progression - that's market creation.