The Amish.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you actully cited to comments made by that whack-job, Steven Kirsch? Who is neither a doctor nor Amish...🤣🤣🤣🤣.
You see, being an attorney I tend to research bull💩 🔥 takes for a living. I ve had this exact same "scenario" spouted to me before.. in fact a few days ago.
I thought the guy above talking mess to 1776 was funny, then you come along.
Just a snippet from the article below.....which you post is based on..
Kirsch referenced the well-worn falsehood linking the MMR vaccine to autism, but broadened it to suggest that vaccines, generally, cause a host of ailments as well as gender dysphoria and homosexuality.
He told legislators, “The Amish are a perfect example of a large group of people who are largely unvaccinated and there’s no autism — we can’t find an autistic kid who was unvaccinated. It’s very, very rare. In the Amish community — very, very rare. You won’t find transsexuals. You won’t find homosexuals. You won’t find kids with ADD, with autoimmune disease, with PANDAS/PANS, with epilepsy. You just don’t find any of these chronic diseases in the Amish.”
The facts....
One paper from 2017 that studied an Amish community in northern Ohio found that 98% of the parents surveyed had immunized their children in whole or in part. Another paper from 2011 found that, of the parents surveyed, 85% had vaccinated at least some of their children.
Also, it’s worth noting that a 2010 conference paper studied autism among the Amish, specifically, which shows that the disorder does exist within that community. The paper said, “Preliminary data have identified the presence of ASD in the Amish community at a rate of approximately 1 in 271 children using standard ASD screening and diagnostic tools although some modifications may be in order.” That rate was lower than the general population, the paper noted, but that could be due to a variety of factors, including differences in how caregivers answered screening questions or genetic differences. Even if autism is less common among the Amish, there is no evidence that it has anything to do with vaccination — and indeed, numerous studies contradict such an interpretation.
Studies have found the rate of autism is the same in vaccinated and unvaccinated children. But the false claim that vaccines are associated with the disorder persists. A prominent spreader of COVID-19 misinformation wrongly told legislators in Pennsylvania that autism is virtually nonexistent...
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Then there is this...
Many Amish parents vaccinate their children
First, published scientific studies show that the Amish aren’t “100 percent unvaccinated”. But it is challenging to obtain consistent estimates of vaccine coverage in the Amish because they live in close communities without telecommunication, therefore different studies report different levels of coverage, as shown below.
- In 2011, a study of 359 Amish parents found that only 14% “reported that none of their children were vaccinated”[2].
- A 2017 study of 84 Amish parents found that 97% of them accepted at least some vaccinations for their children[3].
- A 2021 study of 391 parents showed that 41% of respondents accepted at least some vaccinations for their children[4].
Decades of epidemiological and clinical studies show that vaccines don’t cause autism and effectively reduce the risk of potentially disabling or lethal childhood illnesses like measles and polio. The Amish are a Christian group of about 350,000 people, most of whom live in the U.S.. Although...
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I mean..... oh never mind... this was too easy.