[wanderfowl]

Agreed. That was my first thought, too. Part of the reason that these silly vaccine/autism conspiracy theories are hard to shut down is the fact that Autism is harder to detect pre-vaccination, so there's confirmation bias here among parents of Autistic children.

If this study provides nice evidence to the Anti-Vax crowd that Autism can be measured and detected well before vaccination age, this might help take some of the wind out of the sails of the movement.

Of course, for many, science won't help, much like usable retroreflectors will only break down the fantasy for a subset of moon landing conspiracy theorists, but if it gets brought up even once in a Whole Foods somewhere, they've done a good thing.

[205guy]

In the other comment thread that got shadow-banned, someone pointed out that there are several vaccinations recommended by 2 months of age [1]. I remember my child getting the first one before leaving the hospital (HepB [2]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16979836 [2] https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/immunization-chart.html