Are aluminum adjuvants safe?
A study found a possible link between aluminum in vaccines and childhood asthma, but no causal relationship has been established.
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A study found a possible link between aluminum in vaccines and childhood asthma, but no causal relationship has been established.
Misinformation falsely linking vaccines to autism persists, despite extensive research showing no connection, particularly with thimerosal, which was removed from childhood vaccines in 2001.
A tweet falsely claims a document reveals harmful vaccine ingredients, but it misunderstands the vaccine manufacturing process.
The claim that the Hepatitis B vaccine causes autism is unsupported by evidence and based on debunked misinformation.
A retrospective study cannot establish a causal relationship between aluminum in vaccines and asthma, so it cannot be assumed that vaccines caused the observed asthma.
Retrospective studies are very good at finding associations that need further exploration and testing. Retrospective studies cannot establish a causal relationship so further research is needed.