Vaccines Cause Autism – Debunked (Andrew Wakefield Exposed)

The assertion that vaccines cause autism was first made in 1998, when British surgeon Andrew Wakefield and eleven other co-authors published a paper for the peer-reviewed medical journal, The Lancet. Within, Wakefield asserted there is a strong correlation between the MMR vaccine and autism, and suggested that parents avoid the MMR vaccine as a protective measure.

Naturally, this caused major concern among scientists and the general public alike, and it lead to many enormous studies being conducted with the aim of confirming Wakefield’s findings – but none of them did. Not one – zero. No matter the number of children studied, the methodology used, the location of the study, or the agenda of the authors, not a single study verified Wakefield’s finding, and this resulted in his paper being completely discredited.

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Now I would post the rest of the script here too, but YouTube only allows so many characters and I’d rather use this space to provide links to all of the references within the video, and of course, to my social links and Patreon – and so:

1. Wakefield’s original (now retracted) paper)110960/fulltext

2. If one twin is autistic, the other has a 56 to 95% chance of also being autistic

3. If a child is autistic, their subsequent siblings stand a 18.7% chance of also being autistic

4. Males are two to five times more likely to be autistic

5. A study that looks at 10,000 kindergarten kids in CA from 1980 to 1994 and finds no link

6. A study that looks at almost every child born in Denmark from 1991 1998 (over 537,000 children) and finds no link

7. A study that looks at 535,000 children born in Finland from 1982 to 1996 finds no link between autism and vaccines

8. A systemic study of over 14.7 million children and finds no link

9. MMR vaccine has saved over 17.7 million people since 2000

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