What's behind the idea that vaccines cause autism?
May 2, 2025
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as posted by the channelThe alleged link was first published in 1998, in a since-retracted study in the medical journal The Lancet. The claim has been repeatedly disproven: there is no evidence that vaccines and autism are related. But by the mid-2000s, the myth was out there, and the fears that fueled it are still circulating today.
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