The medical industrial complex relies heavily on the lie that autism is a mystery. Much like cancer, we're constantly badgered about donating our time and money to the same establishment that plagued us with these diseases in the first place, so they can offer us the cleverest and most convoluted treatments while hiding the simple truth of these largely self inflicted illnesses. Wear ribbons, tell tearjerker stories and take jogs all you like, just don't for one moment suggest that there are easily identifiable causes of these diseases. More people earn a living from cancer than are suffering from it, and this economic reality would collapse like a house of cards should the public ever become significantly aware of what a large role they play in their own sickness.
Government and industry much prefer the population to view diseases like cancer and autism as a problem caused by everyone, contracted mainly as a result of vague and ubiquitous "pollution" and simply unavoidable environmental hazards, which is why the superior overall health of Amish and other unvaccinated populations of children is a serious embarrassment for the corporate medical establishment. There really isn't much room for vaccine propagandists to wiggle around this problem, either. Isolation is not the answer. The Amish are exposed to the same polluted air, radiation, and often polluted water as the rest of us, and live as close to industry and roadways as many rural non Amish Americans. Neither is contagion an adequate explanation. America's Amish communities very often engage in commerce and direct contact with the rest of American society, so their children aren't simply too tucked away to be exposed to communicable diseases.
For quite some time the more densely concentrated industrial areas of the northeast were cited as a likely explanation for the higher autism rates within this part of the country. Many Amish, however, are located directly within the northeast, which throws a mighty big wrench into the "industrial pollution" theory of autism. The utter lack of autism within Amish communities strongly supports the theory that industrial pollution, while quite possibly an exacerbating factor of autism, is not the primary factor. Indeed, there seems to be very little about the Amish that is environmentally unique, from a scientific perspective. Where the Amish stand out is in their lifestyle, namely the aspect of their lifestyle that holds in high regard clean and safe food production methods and abstaining from practices like childhood vaccinations. In other words, while studies have not been conducted to rule out, or determine to what extent environmental factors could play in the across the board superior health of Amish communities, it is highly apparent by basic observation that behavior and dietary choices are much more likely to explain their lack of autism and other childhood diseases, especially given the abundant body of evidence already conclusively linking vaccinations to neurological and immunological disorders.
While the medical establishment was able to assassinate the character of many of the doctors and medical professionals who initially have spoken out about vaccinations, this "shoot the messenger" approach to deflecting the issue is becoming more difficult for them by the day, as more and more damning evidence continues to appear. There's the recent University of Pittsburgh study, for example, which revealed that baby monkeys given the same vaccines as human babies developed autism-like symptoms, just as the human babies often do. This helps to rule out other explanations for autism, such as environment or genetic predisposition, since the only difference between the monkeys in the experiment and other monkeys is the injection of highly toxic vaccines. The link between vaccines and autism is even becoming clear from a legal perspective, as well as a scientific one. In May of this year an Italian court awarded damages to the parents of a now autistic child, concluding that it had been demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that the disease was caused by the MMR vaccine.
For the sake of accuracy, however, it should be mentioned that there have actually been three cases of autism within Amish communities. Two were adopted Chinese children who were vaccinated, and the vaccine history of the third child is unclear.
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