Thimerosal found to REDUCE autism!

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I still find the Amish very interesting... I'm not saying they have more or less zero autism because they don't vaccinate (as people so often claim), but I'd love to know what it is about them that gives such a low rate of it... is it pure genetics, or is it their diet/environment/what?

That's not what I've heard about true Amish...

I thought they opposed all modern developments and lived off the earth? From what I've read they don't vaccinate, but rather use natural foods etc that they grow themselves and harvest the traditional way...

(I would assume they know the benefits of natural immune boosters, especially given echinacea is one of the potent of all and is endemic to the US?)

That was many years ago.

Some of them drive cars now...

So they aren't really Amish then.

Or there are different groups of Amish, some 'real' and others 'pseudo/adapted' ?

The Amish in my community (Lancaster County, PA) still use horse and buggies and don't have cars, electricity, or telephones. I'm pretty sure they don't vaccinate their children.

Here's an article on the Amish, vaccines, and autism:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/scienc ... _amish.htm

Here's the beginning of the article, click above to get the rest:

"NO AUTISM FOR UNVACCINATED AMISH?
The Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret'

UPI | December 7, 2005
By DAN OLMSTED

It's a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill.

But thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don't have autism.

"We have a fairly large practice. We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines," said Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst's medical director who founded the practice in 1973. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies at home, and thousands of them have never been vaccinated.

The few autistic children Homefirst sees were vaccinated before their families became patients, Eisenstein said. "I can think of two or three autistic children who we've delivered their mother's next baby, and we aren't really totally taking care of that child -- they have special care needs. But they bring the younger children to us. I don't have a single case that I can think of that wasn't vaccinated."

That doesn't necessarily mean that not vaccinating = no autism though... and you need to take into consideration other factors. They also stay clear of electricity; could it be electro-sensitivity that leads to autism? Or a non-natural diet? Perhaps, if it's caused by something that disrupted the genes a generation or two ago in the wider environment/food chain/medicine, the Amish adults escaped it and so couldn't pass it on, thus the young ones don't have autism either? Maybe it's all of the above in conjunction with one another?

This is why it fascinates me; they don't have it, so what's the reason? They do a lot of things different than the majority of people, so it may not be vaccination, though I must admit it does make me wonder more about vaccination as a potential link.

I'm willing to bet the Amish have the genes associated with autism. They're probably just as genetically susceptible to the environmental factor (probably vaccines) that causes autism.

I mean environmental factors as in something in the wider environment - pesticides, crop sprays, car exhaust, toxic paints and cement and industrial fumes and smog, chemtrails, pylons, phone towers etc... things we have no control over our contact with.

I'd call 'vaccines' medical; things we do have control over (for the time being).