Vaccines and autism

Extensive investigation into vaccines and autism^[1] has shown that there is no relationship between the two, causal or otherwise,^[1]^[2]^[3] and that vaccine ingredients do not cause autism.^[4] Vaccinologist Peter Hotez researched the growth of the false claim and concluded that its spread originated with Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent 1998 paper, with no prior paper supporting a link.^[5]

Despite the scientific consensus for the absence of a relationship^[1]^[2] and the retracted paper, the anti-vaccination movement at large continues to promote theories linking the two.^[6] A developing tactic appears to be the "promotion of irrelevant research [as] an active aggregation of several questionable or peripherally related research studies in an attempt to justify the science underlying a questionable claim."^[7]

^ ^a ^b ^c Taylor LE, Swerdfeger AL, Eslick GD (June 2014). "Vaccines are not associated with autism: an evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies". Vaccine. 32 (29): 3623–9. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.04.085. PMID 24814559.
^ ^a ^b Bonhoeffer J, Heininger U (June 2007). "Adverse events following immunization: perception and evidence" (PDF). Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 20 (3): 237–46. doi:10.1097/QCO.0b013e32811ebfb0. PMID 17471032. S2CID 40669829.
^ Boseley S (February 2, 2010). "Lancet retracts 'utterly false' MMR paper". The Guardian. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
^ "Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism Concerns". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
^ J., Hotez, Peter (30 October 2018). "Vaccines did not cause Rachel's autism : my journey as a vaccine scientist, pediatrician, and autism dad". JHU Press. ISBN 9781421426600. OCLC 1020295646.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Cummins, Eleanor (February 2019). "How autism myths came to fuel anti-vaccination movements A timeline leading to the 2019 measles outbreaks". Popular Science.
^ Foster CA, Ortiz SM (February 2016). "Vaccines, Autism, and the Promotion of Irrelevant Research: A Science-Pseudoscience Analysis". Skeptical Inquirer. 41 (3): 44–48. Archived from the original on 2018-10-06. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

[Taylor_LE_2014-1] Taylor LE, Swerdfeger AL, Eslick GD (June 2014). "Vaccines are not associated with autism: an evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies". Vaccine. 32 (29): 3623–9. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.04.085. PMID 24814559.

[BH-2] Bonhoeffer J, Heininger U (June 2007). "Adverse events following immunization: perception and evidence" (PDF). Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 20 (3): 237–46. doi:10.1097/QCO.0b013e32811ebfb0. PMID 17471032. S2CID 40669829.

[3] Boseley S (February 2, 2010). "Lancet retracts 'utterly false' MMR paper". The Guardian. Retrieved February 2, 2010.

[4] "Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism Concerns". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2019-02-07.

[5] J., Hotez, Peter (30 October 2018). "Vaccines did not cause Rachel's autism : my journey as a vaccine scientist, pediatrician, and autism dad". JHU Press. ISBN 9781421426600. OCLC 1020295646.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[Cummins2019-6] Cummins, Eleanor (February 2019). "How autism myths came to fuel anti-vaccination movements A timeline leading to the 2019 measles outbreaks". Popular Science.

[7] Foster CA, Ortiz SM (February 2016). "Vaccines, Autism, and the Promotion of Irrelevant Research: A Science-Pseudoscience Analysis". Skeptical Inquirer. 41 (3): 44–48. Archived from the original on 2018-10-06. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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