DISPUTED causes of autism
Understanding parental vaccine refusal: implicit and explicit associations about vaccines as potential building blocks of vaccine beliefs and behavior
Collectively, study findings suggest that vaccine associations—especially those related to helpfulness/harmfulness—may serve as psychological building blocks for parental vaccine beliefs and behaviors.
Acetaminophen in pregnancy and attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder
According to the current scientific evidence, in utero exposure to acetaminophen is unlikely to confer a clinically important increased risk of childhood ADHD or ASD. The current level of evidence does not warrant changes to clinical guidelines on the treatment of fever or pain in pregnancy.
Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent
The Lancet paper has of course been retracted, but for far narrower misconduct than is now apparent. The retraction statement cites the GMC’s findings that the patients were not consecutively referred and the study did not have ethical approval, leaving the door open for those who want to continue to believe that the science, flawed though it always was, still stands.
The mmr vaccine and autism: Sensation, refutation, retraction, and fraud
Scientists and organizations across the world spent a great deal of time and money refuting the results of a minor paper in the Lancet and exposing the scientific fraud that formed the basis of the paper. Measles outbreaks in the UK in 2008 and 2009 as well as pockets of measles in the USA and Canada were attributed to the non-vaccination of children.
The association between parental age and autism-related outcomes in children at high familial risk for autism
Results suggest the potential for a different relationship between parental age and ASD-related outcomes in families with elevated ASD risk than has been observed in general population samples.
ACETAMINOPHENN USE DURING PREGNANCY AND CHILDREN’S RISK OF AUTISM, ADHD, and INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding.
The myth of vaccination and autism spectrum
Among all of the studied potential causes of autism, vaccines have received some of the most scrutiny and have been the topic of many evidence-based studies. These efforts have led the great majority of scientists, physicians, and public health researchers to refute causation between vaccines and autism.
Quantifying the effect of wakefield et al. (1998) on skepticism about mmr vaccine safety in the US
Efforts to trace the rise of childhood vaccine safety concerns in the US often suggest Andrew Wakefield and colleagues’ retracted 1998 Lancet study (AW98)–which alleged that the MMR vaccine can cause children to develop autism–as a primary cause of US vaccine skepticism. Vaccine skepticism increased following the publication of AW98, which was potentially made possible by increased negative media coverage of MMR.
Association between vaccine refusal and vaccine-preventable diseases in the united states
A substantial proportion of the US measles cases in the era after elimination were intentionally unvaccinated. The phenomenon of vaccine refusal was associated with an increased risk for measles among people who refuse vaccines and among fully vaccinated individuals. Although pertussis resurgence has been attributed to waning immunity and other factors, vaccine refusal was still associated with an increased risk for pertussis in some populations.
Taking The STAND: FOR SCIENTISts, going to court as an expert witness brings risks and rewards
Cote took less than 2 weeks to reject the scientific case that the plaintiffs’ experts had laid out. “Their analyses have not served to enlighten but to obfuscate the weakness of the evidence on which they purport to rely,” she wrote. Her decision put an abrupt end to the case, unless it’s appealed and overturned.