Media Coverage Influence on MMR Vaccination Rates

This increased to 2.1% in 2000, shortly after Wakefield published his study, but then returned back down to baseline over the next two years, before the spike in media coverage of the MMR-autism controversy. Therefore an increase in MMR ...

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LETTER TO THE OBSERVER

Then, after 10 years of government claiming there is no evidence of any link between MMR and autism, we find out the US government has conceded at least 10 court cases in the past 18 years linking autism to vaccines, and one of those ...

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Patrick Holford, MMR and What Passes for Hard Evidence

One of the sections in the book has the heading: The big debate - MMR and autism. You might expect an extensive and authoritative overview of the extensive literature concerning this topic. Not so much. Holford and Colson deal with this ...

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US Physicians Buffer Effect of MMR Vaccine-Autism Debate

PHILADELPHIA -- American physicians may have been initially seduced by a 1998 British report linking vaccines and the risk of autism, but once the report was refuted doctors quickly closed ranks and defended immunization's value ...

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Autism

Some parents have heard that the MMR vaccine that children receive may cause autism. This theory was based, in part, on two facts. First, the incidence of autism has increased steadily since around the same time the MMR vaccine was ...

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Vaccine Safety and the Scribble on the Wall

Stern and Markel note that American parents need “better access to and clearer explanations of the recent findings published in medical journals that confirm the lack of a link between thimerosal or MMR and autism or other neurological ...

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Surprise Surprise: No link between the MMR and autism

There is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism, according to the largest ever published study about this controversial issue. The study appears in the Archives of Disease in Childhood and was led by Gillian Baird, a pediatrician at ...

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MMR and Autism: US court says there’sa link, and awards compensation

The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine can cause autism, a US court has concluded.

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More on the Autism-MMR trash story

Your headline and article were written in such a way as to lead readers to assume that the court had conceded that the MMR caused autism when it did no such thing. Since the MMR is the big bogeyman in this part of the world, ...

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Slate gets it

And there’sa lot of evidence that neither the MMR vaccine, nor thimerosal, nor the number of vaccines a children receives at one time has any role to play in autism. In fact there are some good immunological reasons that most people ...

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Media Coverage Influence on MMR Vaccination Rates