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Contrary to viral Facebook claim, numerous studies show vaccines don’t cause autism
Claim:
there are no studies that prove vaccines don’t cause autism
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Source: Collective Evolution, The Highwire, Del Bigtree, Joe Martino, 2020-03-05 -
InaccurateNo increased risk of autism observed in African-American boys associated with MMR vaccine; claim based on erroneous study retracted in 2014
Claim:
The CDC found a 236% increased risk of autism in African-American boys associated with the MMR vaccine
Source: Facebook, Brian Hooker, 2014-08-08 -
UnsupportedVaccines do not cause autism, diabetes or cancer, contrary to Shiv Chopra’s claim
Claim:
All these diseases [...] use [sic] to be rare. Autism use [sic] to be 1 in 10,000. Now it’s 1 in 50. Now, where is it all coming from? Vaccines are doing it.
Source: Natural Nana, Shiv Chopra, 2013-04-07 -
UnsupportedClaim that vaccines can cause individuals with mitochondrial disorders to develop autism is unsupported
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If a child has a mitochondrial disorder [...] she is more at risk of having a vaccine pushing her over the edge and causing a bad reaction
Source: GreenMedInfo, JB Handley Jr, 2018-09-13 -
How we know vaccines don’t cause autism – and why this belief persists
The claim that “vaccines cause autism” first received its scientific backing by Andrew Wakefield’s now-retracted study in The Lancet, published…
