SweetSue92
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Sorry anti-vaxxers. Your kids have a better chance of getting autism if they don’t vaccinate than if they do.
After two studies reporting a possible link between vaccines and autism, researchers have set out to examine whether much larger studies could replicate the findings of the first studies.
These much larger studies, covering thousands of times more children than the first studies, were much better designed and much more "powered" to detect any differences between vaccines and autism.
The balance of evidence strongly indicate that there is no link between vaccines and autism. In fact, recent research has shown a trend towards a lower autism rate with vaccinations.
Data on the MMR Vaccine & Autism | Visualized Health
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This might have to do with education level and autism, and also paternal age and autism. We know that highly educated parents tend to have autism at higher rates than not, and advanced paternal age. Anecdotally, these seem to be the parents who reject vaccines.