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Even if vaccines sometimes caused autism, the immense good they've been bringing for many decades to the human species would largely outweigh the risk.
What the anti-vaxxers are doing is akin to trying to convince people to give up electricity because some people get electrocuted sometimes.
There is literally no evidence for them somehow causing autism, though. It's a myth that was put into the world by a fraudster.
I know. What I meant was, even assuming vaccines did cause autism in some cases and it was 100% confirmed, it'd still be a stupid idea from a public health point of view to give up vaccines, and it'd still be a risk worth taking for the health benefits from an individual point of view.