RE: The Amish don't get AUTISM, PERIOD! Ummm... they also don't get VACCINATED...PERIOD.
She just full of it...like usual. Where they get that from is that a reporter Dan Olmstead conducted a non scientic study in Lancaster County, one of the largest Amish communities and asked a person how many children in the special needs classroom had autism, to which she replied two that went to school there and one other who didn't attend school there that she knew of, of the three two had been vaccinated. Since then conspiracy sites have taken it and ran with it like it was scientific fact.
A real scientific study done on the Amish showed that one out of 376 Amish kids has Autism, this rate is lower than the national average and so are Amish vaccination rates but a study was also done in an Amish community who didn't have easy access to medical care if they vaccinated they children. Out of one thousand surveyed they received almost half back which 68% claimed their children got vaccinated, the findings found that the Amish as a whole do vaccinate but they are more selective about what vaccines they do get, it's a smaller percentage that don't vaccinate at all. Their national rate for Autism is lower but that could be related to any number of reasons than just vaccines such as they live a healthier life style.
...and no, NY isn't forcing Amish to shut down their schools and go to public schools. The court ruling was that private schools could no longer not vaccinate the kids and that each day a child who is not vaccinated is allowed to attend the school could face a two thousand dollar fine for each kid.
Thank you standing up and telling the truth here on Steemit. It scares me the levels of ignorance that spread and take hold here, permanently burnt into the block-chain. Happy New Year!
Sometimes it can be a real hoot if you read the articles then check out the links before reading the comments...then you realize just how many people are willing to take what the person wrote at their word without regard to linking up to the story and see what they wrote isn't even how it went down in the story. Granted I get around as a blogger and I read dozens of articles a week so I am a bit more alert if something doesn't sound right or seems to have a tinge of bias. The one's that really kill me and are a dead giveaway that something isn't right in Denmark are the people who'll source the article out to belonging to the front page of a website listing current news. (lol)....you then have to go on a google hunt to find what it is up with that, ninety nine percent of the time they are way off track with what they are writing. Happy New Year to you too.