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An increasing number of children are undervaccinated, of whom an estimated 13% or more are believed to be so because of parental choice. [15] One survey, published in Vaccine, found that 9.4% of parents in King County, Washington used an alternative vaccine schedule, [1] while another survey found that more than 1 out of 10 parents of children aged between 6 months and 6 years used an ...
Vaccine developers profiled in the book include Jonas Salk (p. 188) and Maurice Hilleman (p. 238). Allen, later in the book, describes the controversy over vaccines and autism and the founding of SafeMinds, writing, "The vaccines-cause-autism mindset was the product of a set of assumptions that were impossible to completely prove or disprove."
The Canadian Paediatric Society, [34] the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, [35] the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, [36] and the UK National Health Service [37] have all concluded that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and a 2011 journal article described the vaccine–autism connection ...
Finally, after years of scrutiny from the scientific community, major British medical journal The Lancet last week formally retracted a flawed study linking vaccines to autism.
The debunked theory connecting autism and childhood vaccines first garnered major attention in 1998, when a paper published in a British medical journal purported to find a link between the ...
Concerns about thiomersal and vaccines are commonly expressed by anti-vaccine activists. Claims relating to the safety of thiomersal, a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines, are refuted, but still subject to fearmongering, notably claims it could cause neurological disorders such as autism, leading to its removal from most vaccines in the US childhood schedule. [1]
A later-retracted article from The Lancet making false claims provoked concern about vaccines among parents. Its author was found to be on the payroll of litigants against vaccine manufacturers. [14] The idea of a link between vaccines and autism was extensively investigated and shown to be false. [15]
The idea that thiomersal was a cause or trigger for autism is now considered disproven, as incidence rates for autism increased steadily even after thiomersal was removed from childhood vaccines. [8] The cause of autism and mercury poisoning being associated is improbable because the symptoms of mercury poisoning are not present and are ...