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04 Mar 2019, 6:30 pm

A Large Study Provides More Evidence That MMR Vaccines Don't Cause Autism

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A large study released Monday finds no evidence that the vaccine that protects against measles, mumps and rubella increases the risk of autism. The study of children born in Denmark is one of the largest ever of the MMR vaccine.

he study's first author, epidemiologist Anders Hviid of the Staten Serum Institute in Copenhagen, added in an email: "MMR does not cause autism."

In the study, researchers analyzed data collected from all children born in Denmark to Danish-born mothers between 1999 and 2010.

Among the 657,461 children included in the analysis, 6,517 were diagnosed with autism over the next decade. But there was no overall increased risk for the developmental disorder among those who received the MMR vaccine when compared with those who had not gotten the vaccine, the researchers found.

The researchers also found no increased risk among subgroups of children who might be unusually susceptible to autism, such as those with a brother or sister with the disorder.

The researchers noted that the study is a follow-up to a similar, large study they conducted in 2002 that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. That study involved 537,000 Danish children.


This study is out of Denmark which would less likely to be affected by an American big pharma big government conspiracy.


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04 Mar 2019, 6:40 pm

How much more money needs to be wasted on scientific medical facts that have already been proven?

How about doing research on proving that there is a real disease that makes ammuuuricanz stupid, name it A.S.S. (American Stupidity Syndrome), and then tell the world to close their borders to all US travelers to prevent this highly contagious disease from becoming the worst pandemic in history? :evil:



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04 Mar 2019, 7:51 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
How much more money needs to be wasted on scientific medical facts that have already been proven? ...
As much as it takes to keep proving it, or to disprove it entirely.

Unlike religion, Science is not a static realm of study in that once a discovery is made, that's it.

For instance, Newton defined the principles of gravity very clearly in the 1680s, yet the study of gravity waves continues to this day, and scientists have recorded the collisions of black holes many millions of light-years distant. Becquerel discovered thermionic emission in 1853, yet investigation continued and today we can pack enough transistors into an area no larger than your thumbnail for terabytes (10^12 bytes) of memory.

Compare that to religion, where any addition or modification to holy scripture is considered blasphemous and (in some places) punishable by death!



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04 Mar 2019, 7:53 pm

If the MMR vaccine caused autism, there would be millions of people running around with autism......

If any vaccine caused autism, we would have had a veritable pandemic in the late 50s/early 60s.



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04 Mar 2019, 8:31 pm

As more and more studies disprove any autism/vaccine link, we accumulate more and more evidence to use against parents whose children died because they weren't vaccinated against a preventable disease.



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04 Mar 2019, 8:49 pm

Even if there was a provable link between autism and vaccines, it wouldn't be a sound argument to not vaccinate your children.


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