SAN ANTONIO — Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood continued his anti-vaccination crusade Tuesday night on his official Facebook page where he engaged in discussions, arguments and advocated for parents' rights to not immunize their children against diseases.

Overwhelming scientific evidence, including studies and explicit statements from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the San Antonio Metro Health District, shows there is no link between autism and vaccines. LaHood's opinion on the issue was first reported by mySA.com Monday.

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"I have received nothing but judgmental and hypocritical criticism for my opinion," LaHood said, adding that he has "done (his) own research" and told others that "you have no science that supports your position and please don't reference that false CDC study."

In the thread posted Tuesday afternoon that amassed nearly 900 comments by Wednesday morning, LaHood called one commenter a “fool” with their “head in the sand” and said another was being as dramatic as a character in a "novela" and said they were not a “doctor or scientist either.”

Click through the gallery above to see some of the highlights from LaHood's Facebook rant.

In addition to heavy criticism, hundreds thanked LaHood for speaking out on the issue calling him "brave" and said his comments were "historic" as he had set an "important precedent" for the movement. The supportive comments garnered hundreds of likes for posts like one which thanked him for "being a voice that main stream (sic) media will pay attention to."

LaHood said the public should “let doctors be doctors” and it was “a shame that, if they do not support vaccinations, they are ostracized, slandered, and chastised by licensing boards and certain segments of the public.”

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LaHood, who identified himself in his official capacity in a plug for an anti-vaccination documentary he screened at a local theater Sunday, said he believes he has a right, as an elected criminal district attorney, to make his controversial opinion known.

“So I disagree that I shouldn’t talk about this issue as DA,” he said. “Aside from me being a daddy of a son on the spectrum, I have a duty to address this issue in our CPS system.”

Many said they would not be voting for the district attorney in 2018 when his four-year term is up. But he said he would be “just fine” without the votes.

In spite of scientific evidence that shows, as the CDC put it,“there is no link between vaccines and autism,” LaHood said people should watch the anti-vaccination movie “Vaxxed” to land at a well-rounded opinion as he had.

Andrew Wakefield, the director of the "Vaxxed" documentary lost his medical license in the United Kingdom after he authored a now-retracted study in 1998 that claimed a link between vaccinations and autism, Richard Marini reported in Wednesday's print edition of the San Antonio Express-News.

Marini also provided context for why some people may believe there is a link. He wrote: "Children usually develop autism between about 12 and 18 months of age, which is the same period during which most childhood vaccines are administered. Most medical experts explain the rise in the incidence of autism on increased recognition and improved detection of the disorder."

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LaHood cited personal experience as backup to his beliefs, including him and his children.

“Currently, I have not been vaccinated with anything (to include a flu shot) in over three decades and I'm just fine,” he said, adding that he eats superfoods and fiber to stay healthy and build up “natural immunity.”

On Monday, LaHood told mySA.com that two of his children suffered from injuries after receiving vaccines.

“In our opinion, they were both injured by vaccines because their effects were immediate after a certain round of vaccine. No one is going to tell me my son was born autistic. I have the pictures and the video to prove it,” LaHood said at the time.

According to the CDC website, one vaccine ingredient that has been studied specifically is thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used to prevent contamination of multidose vials of vaccines.

"Since 2003, there have been nine CDC-funded or conducted studies that have found no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and ASD, as well as no link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and ASD in children," the site states.

Additionally, LaHood called Brian Chasnoff, a staff writer for the Express-News who has covered the district attorney in the past, an “unethical ‘journalist’’ who is “as dishonest as they come” after one person posted a link Chasnoff wrote about Lahood's undisclosed business interest to the Facebook thread.

Staff writer John Gonzalez contributed to this report.

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