{"id":10237,"date":"2024-06-06T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10237"},"modified":"2024-07-21T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T18:43:43","slug":"do-vaccines-cause-autism","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/do-vaccines-cause-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Do vaccines cause autism?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A\u00a0doctor<\/a> who found his way to fame through COVID denialism is now spreading the old, tired, soggy myth that vaccines cause autism, and people are buying it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”The Facts:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]The doctor in question, Dr. Pierre Korry, posts an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0that he believes explains the mechanisms of how vaccines cause autism and attempts to draw parallels to the COVID vaccine, but he forgets that mRNA vaccines, such as we use for COVID, have very little in common with what the article\u2019s author claims in the mechanism for autism.<\/p>\n

The author makes several claims, the first being that vaccines cause autism. First off, there is\u00a0plenty of evidence<\/a>\u00a0that tells us that vaccines do not cause\u00a0autism.<\/p>\n

Not only do\u00a0the\u00a0studies done to date show vaccines are not in any way linked to\u00a0autism, but\u00a0studies<\/a>\u00a0indicate disorganization of\u00a0the\u00a0prefrontal cortex in\u00a0the\u00a0brains of\u00a0autistic\u00a0people. This finding about brains links\u00a0autism\u00a0to development that takes place before birth.<\/p>\n

Of all\u00a0the\u00a0risk factors<\/a>\u00a0for developing\u00a0autism, we know genetics looks\u00a0the\u00a0most likely, and being vaccinated is not among them.<\/p>\n

The next idea is the supposed unexplained explosion of cases. In reality, the\u00a0reasons<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0rise in\u00a0autism\u00a0rates\u00a0are many: changes in how we\u00a0diagnose<\/a>\u00a0autism, increased\u00a0awareness<\/a>,\u00a0educational\u00a0<\/a>changes, and fewer cases of\u00a0intellectual disability<\/a>\u00a0are good explanations for most of\u00a0the\u00a0rising\u00a0rates.\u00a0Biological risk factors<\/a>\u00a0such as a father\u2019s age and premature birth could also explain some of the rising rates.<\/p>\n

Next, the author brings up supposed mechanisms of vaccine-induced autism, such as immune activation, inflammatory cytokines, brain inflammation, and heavy metals.<\/p>\n

Immune activation, inflammatory cytokines, etc, are all parts of a living immune system. Any infection, allergy, or injury will cause\u00a0immune activation<\/a>\u00a0and the release of inflammatory\u00a0cytokines<\/a>. Vaccines are just a way of introducing you to an antigen without getting sick from the disease you\u2019re being vaccinated against.<\/p>\n

Heavy metals<\/a>\u00a0are a large part of this article. One familiar villain is\u00a0thimerosal<\/a>, an organic mercury compound that was removed from all routine childhood vaccines since 2001, over 20 years ago. If autism rates have gone up since then, thimerosal is not the cause.<\/p>\n

Aluminum is the next villain, citing one\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0that claimed to find aluminum in five autistic children\u2019s brains. The study included no information on vaccination records. With\u00a0hundreds of millions<\/a>\u00a0of children around the world vaccinated each year, a case study of 5 exceptional brains is not evidence that vaccines cause autism.<\/p>\n

Of course, COVID vaccines contain no aluminum or mercury, so the leap Dr. Kory made from pandemic misinformation to autism misinformation cannot be based on any of the above evidence.<\/p>\n

Want to see more information on autism and vaccines?\u00a0Find more information on our website.<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Pierre Korry falsely links COVID vaccines to autism. No evidence supports this; rising autism rates are due to improved diagnosis and awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[195,199,194,218],"class_list":["post-10237","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-autism","jtf_topic_subjects-childhood-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-ingredients","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10320,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10237\/revisions\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}