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The scientific consensus is that there is no relationship, causal or otherwise, between vaccines and incidence of autism, [16] [17] [15] and vaccine ingredients do not cause autism. [ 18 ] Nevertheless, the anti-vaccination movement continues to promote myths, conspiracy theories and misinformation linking the two. [ 19 ]
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure is a 2008 book by Paul Offit, a vaccine expert and chief of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The book focuses on the controversy surrounding the now-discredited link between vaccines and autism .
Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds is the fifth book published by New York Times bestselling author, activist and television personality Jenny McCarthy. [1] Her previous book, Louder Than Words , reached #3 on the New York Times bestseller list, and has more than 200,000 hardcovers in print after five printings.
Now, Trump and RFK Jr. are perpetuating the myth. Vaccines do not cause autism, however many Americans believe they do. Now, Trump and RFK Jr. are perpetuating the myth.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson opened up about her struggles into parenthood, particularly as the mother of an autistic child, in her new memoir. The passage in “Lovely One ...
Representation of autistic people in media has perpetuated myths about autism, including characterizing autism as shameful and burdensome for family members, advertising fake cures for autism, and publicizing the long-disproven arguments surrounding vaccines and autism. These myths are perpetuated in mass media as well as news media and social ...
Autism in Love (2015) is an American documentary film. The Autistic Gardener (2015) is a Channel 4 documentary series in which a team of autistic people redesign people's gardens. [15] Girls with Autism (2015) is a documentary following three girls at Limpsfield Grange, a specialized school in the United Kingdom. [16]
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity is a book by Steve Silberman that discusses autism and neurodiversity [1] from historic, scientific, and advocacy-based perspectives. Neurotribes was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2015, [2] [3] and has received wide acclaim from both the scientific and the popular press.