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The assumption that MMR vaccines cause autism is not isolated to the United States. A seven-year study was done in Denmark from 1991 to 1998 following children who received the MMR vaccine. The results of the study found that when comparing the vaccinated children to the unvaccinated children, the risk of autism in the vaccinated group was 0.92 ...
The proposal of a vaccine-autism link has been called "the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years". [ 9 ] Fudenberg claimed in a 2004 interview with Brian Deer that he was able to cure autistic children using his own bone marrow . [ 12 ]
Following this determination, the vaccine court has routinely dismissed such suits, finding no causal effect between the MMR vaccine and autism. [12] Many studies have failed to conclude that there is a causal link between autism spectrum disorders and vaccines, [13] and the current scientific consensus is that routine childhood vaccines are ...
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 ...
Many medical researchers make use of VAERS to study the effects of vaccination. VAERS warns researchers using its database that the data should not be used in isolation to draw conclusions about cause and effect. [11] Nonetheless, raw data from VAERS has been used in vaccine litigation to support the claim that vaccines cause autism.
The idea of a link between vaccines and autism has been extensively investigated and conclusively shown to be false. [136] [137] The scientific consensus is that there is no relationship, causal or otherwise, between vaccines and incidence of autism, [53] [138] [136] and vaccine ingredients do not cause autism. [139]
[8] [9] [10] In 1999, due to concern about the dose of mercury infants were being exposed to, the U.S. Public Health Service recommended that thiomersal be removed from childhood vaccines, and by 2002 the flu vaccine was the only childhood vaccine containing more than trace amounts of thimerosal. Despite this, autism rates did not decrease ...
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