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The truth is, there is no link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines are incredibly important.

Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.

I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases - smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication. Like any medication, they also should be - what shall we say? - approved by a regulatory board that people can trust.