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No they do not. Autism is not a side effect of MMR vaccine.

Information about the Study Showing a Link Between the MMR Vaccine and Autism

Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who controlled the well-known study that claimed a link between autism and vaccinations changed the results of his study for his purposes. The medical records of the children were obtained and evaluated in 2009, and those show results differing from those that Wakefield published. Contrary to what he reported in his study, several of his subjects showed signs of autism before the vaccinations. Also, he had accepted funding prior to beginning the study to prove that the MMR vaccine was harmful, so it was a conflict of interest when he did this study. In addition, his study only involved 12 children, which was too small to prove anything, and the children were not randomly selected, so it was a biased study.

Wakefield's results were already in question because despite removing the Mercury from vaccines, autism rates continued to increase. Also, countries that had been using different vaccines and vaccination schedules also had increasing rates of autism. Numerous studies have disproven the conjecture that vaccines cause autism.

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11y ago

No they certainly do not. They didn't while they contained mercury, and they still don't cause it without mercury. Many studies confirm these facts.

Most importantly, the original paper purporting the link was shown to be a scientific fraud, with the author (Dr. Andrew Wakefield) having been shown to have a financial interest in making such a claim, and the data that the paper used was both incorrectly chosen (i.e. he cherry-picked or ignored data, to suit his needs) and, in some cases, fabricated.

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10y ago

It doesn't.

Autism is a neurological disorder thus it develops within the womb - MMR vaccines cannot travel back in time to change how a persons brain developed within the womb, and it cannot change a persons brain at the point of vaccination. This idea came from a fraudulent paper released in 1998, it has long since been disproved but ignorant people such as Jenny McCarthy continue to support this idea as a means of getting money or attention for their own causes and to further increase ignorance towards autism.

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8y ago

There has been no research that proves that any vaccines cause autism. There was a rumor that this was the case from some research over ten years ago about measles but this was thoroughly disproved and shown as bad science at the time.

As stated above, there is actually strong evidence that vaccines do not lead to higher rates of autism.

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Doctors believe in medical science and as such know that vaccination does not and can not cause Autism. There is no possible way that vaccinations could cause Autism and billions have been spent on researching this (instead of researching how to help Autistic people or making vaccinations safer) to prove to people that it is absolute nonsense. Doctors are now in a position where they're having to bite their lip as some ignorant people continue to refuse to vaccine their children.

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No, vaccinations cannot cause autism. Autism is a neurological difference that a person is born with, it comes about as a resultof how the brain is developed in the womb in the second trimester of pregnancy. A person is born autistic, a vaccine cannot change a persons brain to make them autistic.

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No, vaccines do not and can not cause autism.

Autism is a neurological difference - we are born Autistic and whether we're Autistic or not depends on our genetics and we become Autistic as our brains develop within the womb. Vaccinations cannot time-travel to change our parents genes or change how our bring develops within the womb. The idea of vaccines causing autism has long been debunked, unfortunately ableist anti-vaxxers keep the myth alive because they refuse to listen to common sense or scientific facts.

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No, vaccines do not cause autism.

Autism is a neurological difference so it is something that people are born with, it begins when the brain is formed during the second trimester of pregnancy, and it is a result of genetics. A vaccine cannot time-travel in order to go back to change a persons genes or brain development in the womb. The idea that vaccines such as the MMR vaccine being a cause of autism was fraud and has long since been proven to be completely false.

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No, vaccines do not and can not cause autism.

Autism is a neurological difference - it is a type of brain, thus develops as the brain develops in the second trimester of pregnancy and is a result of genetics. Vaccines cannot travel back in time to change a persons genes or how their brain developed in the womb - a person is born Autistic, nothing can be done to make a person Autistic when they are not. The idea of vaccines causing autism was a medical fraud and a lot of money has been spent to prove it's absolutely false.

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that was a rumor and there is no solid evidence that vaccinations cause autism

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When asked scientists would often say that while they were sure the vaccine was safe they could not be 100 percent certain that there was no link with autism Why would a scientist always say that?

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Is there anything in your environment that contributes to someone having autism?

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