Learning about the hierarchy of evidence can help you better evaluate medical studies and vaccine papers and understand that there is more to doing your research about vaccines than searching PubMed and reading abstracts.
Everyone knows that Andy Wakefield‘s fraudulent MMR study was retracted. That’s the study that got folks scared into thinking that vaccines are associated with autism. Surprisingly, it’s not the only one… Retracted Anti-Vaccine Studies Actually, it shouldn’t be surprising at all. Most studies that are touted by the anti-vaccine movement are poorly done and often …
There is no debate and it is not a controversy – experts agree – vaccines are not associated with autism.
Vaccines are still not associated with autism, even though anti-vaccine folks continue to come up with new ideas for how it might be, from glyphosate and DNA fragments in vaccines to MTHFR mutations and maternal immune activation.
