{"id":10734,"date":"2023-05-18T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10734"},"modified":"2024-08-10T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T18:45:47","slug":"the-autism-and-vaccines-myth-resurfaces","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/the-autism-and-vaccines-myth-resurfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"The autism and vaccines myth resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Having overplayed his COVID vaccine scare cards, a\u00a0computer scientist<\/a>\u00a0is returning to the old hits, returning to an environmental lawyer\u2019s claims concerning thimerosal in vaccines and autism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/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=””]Vaccines do not cause\u00a0autism, but misinformation falsely claiming a link between vaccines and\u00a0autism\u00a0persists. First, anti-vaccine activist\u00a0Wakefield<\/a>\u00a0published a fraudulent study that falsely claimed a link between\u00a0autism\u00a0and MMR. Now, a well-known anti-vaccine lawyer is claiming that thimerosal in\u00a0the\u00a0Hep\u00a0B\u00a0vaccine caused a 1995 \u201cexplosion\u201d in\u00a0autism\u00a0a few years after\u00a0the\u00a0vaccine became widely available. Let\u2019s review\u00a0the\u00a0problems with this claim.<\/p>\n

First, studies show that\u00a0thimerosal\u00a0<\/a>does\u00a0not<\/a>\u00a0increase\u00a0the\u00a0risk of\u00a0autism. In addition,\u00a0thimerosal has not even been used in childhood vaccines<\/a>\u00a0since 2001.<\/p>\n

Second,\u00a0autism\u00a0diagnoses continued to rise following\u00a0the\u00a02001 removal of thimerosal from all childhood vaccines.\u00a0The\u00a0continued rise of\u00a0autism\u00a0diagnoses is, in fact, mostly due to growing\u00a0awareness<\/a>\u00a0and changing diagnostic criteria.<\/p>\n

Our anti-vaxxer does allude to a\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0that was approved by\u00a0the\u00a0CDC. This study used Vaccine Safety Datalink data to evaluate\u00a0the\u00a0effects of thimerosal in childhood vaccines.\u00a0The\u00a0study identified a signal of an increase in\u00a0autism, but a signal does not necessarily indicate causation between vaccination and side effects. A signal suggests a need for further study. As a cautionary measure, however,\u00a0the\u00a0birth dose of\u00a0the\u00a0Hep\u00a0B\u00a0vaccination was suspended until\u00a0the\u00a0thimerosal-free vaccine was available in 1999.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Misinformation falsely linking vaccines to autism persists, despite extensive research showing no connection, particularly with thimerosal, which was removed from childhood vaccines in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[195,203,194,218],"class_list":["post-10734","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-autism","jtf_topic_subjects-mmr","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\/10734","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\/10734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10737,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10734\/revisions\/10737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}