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Andrew Wakefield’s many statements that MMR causes autism

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

One of the themes that has grown in the past couple of years that Andrew Wakefield never said MMR causes autism. Rather, the story goes, he was a cautious researcher who merely reported what parents told him and called for more research to be done. Here is an example by Mr. Dan Olmsted of the [...]

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Todd W., running for a good cause

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Todd W. of Harpocrates Speaks is a frequent author of articles and commenter in online discussions involving questions of vaccines and vaccines and autism. In his article, Help Me, Interwebz! You’re My Only Hope!, he tells us that he is participating in a run to raise money for medical research. In specific, he’s helping to [...]

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Congressman Dan Burton: It is time to re-engage on the autism epidemic

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Dan Burton is a U.S. Congressman, a legislator elected to represent the state of Indiana to the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Burton was once a frequent name in the discussion about autism. His grandson is autistic and Mr. Burton championed the idea that mercury, in specific the vaccine preservative thimerosal, was a possible cause [...]

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The combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines and the total number of vaccines are not associated with development of autism spectrum disorder: The first case-control study in Asia.

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

A paper from researchers in Japan studies the questions of whether vaccines cause autism. In this study, The combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines and the total number of vaccines are not associated with development of autism spectrum disorder: The first case-control study in Asia, the authors use a case-control method. The study is moderate [...]

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