Reply #100: I wouldn't hold my breath for "closure" to the screaming on that... [View All]

...because there's already been arguments both ways on the autism rate data as of 2006, and what doesn't help is that of the two databases I've seen mention of, one was influenced by the publicity surrounding the issue -- more people looking to get diagnosis -- and the other, well, wouldn't you know it, the methodologies changed just at the wrong time.

So on the one hand, it'll have to be long enough for people to be convinced that all the vaccines with it are long ago out of the supply lines, and on the other hand any downward trend would have to be very long and pronounced and not simply due to our suck-ass health care system failing to diagnose more uninsured children.

I suppose maybe rates from Great Britain might make a better case whichever way, given their system actually treats people.