From David M. Brown, commenting at Respectful Insolence post Shifting goalposts, shifting stories. The "they" in the paragraph below consists of Generation Rescue, the editors and commenters at Age of Autism, and other members of "autism must be caused by the vaccines" I added the emphasis.
Mr. Brown's writings can be found at http://evilpossum.weebly.com/When it seemed that autism appeared around age 2, they blamed MMR, which is administered at 12 months or later. Now that strong evidence shows that 12 months is too late for a cause of autism, they are looking backward into vaccines before age 1. In a further display of selective memory and perception, 6 of the 25 “vaccines” listed are the PCV and rotavirus vaccines, which were added well after the early- mid-1990s “autism epidemic”. They do not just “move the goal posts”, as critics have charged; they also move the first-down lines, switch the end zones, rewrite the rule book and change the game to cricket.
The theories on vaccines and autism are about as sound as the theories on global warming!
Lindsey Petersen
http://5kidswdisabilities.wordpress.com
Posted by: Lindsey Petersen | Monday, February 22, 2010 at 08:16 PM