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The link between vaccines and autism doesn't even make sense. One reason there's little evidence is that nobody has ever taken the link seriously enough to investigate.
 
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The link between vaccines and autism doesn't even make sense. One reason there's little evidence is that nobody has ever taken the link seriously enough to investigate.
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Except they did. Quite a lot of research was done in the Wake of Wakefield’s now discredited publication in The Lancet in the late ‘90s and they could not replicate his findings.

“… In the late 1990s, Andrew Wakefield, a physician at Royal Free Hospital in London, published an article in The Lancet, claiming to have found the explanation for autism in the measles virus.<a href="Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies - PMC">6</a>

Initially, Wakefield reported that the measles virus was responsible for the colonic lesions seen in Crohn disease. Although this theory was soon disproved and put to rest, Wakefield was impressed by cases brought to his attention in which apparently normally developing children manifested autistic symptoms shortly after administration of the MMR triad vaccine. Despite his previous blunder with Crohn disease, he hypothesized that the measles virus had triggered inflammatory lesions in the colon, disrupting the permeability of the colon through which neurotoxic proteins reach the bloodstream and the brain, thus causing autism. Eight out of eight autistic children on whom he had performed colonoscopies exhibited the hypothesized lesions, leading him to assert that the measles vaccine virus caused autism.

[his theory became a cause celebre for some time and got a lot of media attention, BUT…]

… In 2005, an investigative reporter alerted The Lancet's editors that Wakefield's study had been flawed by severe research misconduct, conflict of interests, and probably falsehood. After investigating the matter, The Lancet retracted the article, and the British Medical Association took disciplinary actions against Wakefield.

Since the Wakefield report, any direct connection between autism and the MMR vaccine has been discredited by dozens of studies investigating the epidemiology of autism and the biological effects of MMR and the mumps virus.<a href="Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies - PMC">7</a>,<a href="Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies - PMC">8</a>

Decreases in the rate of exposure to MMR were not shown to correlate with similar decreases in the incidence of autism. On the contrary, although more and more parents were opting out of MMR vaccination, the rates of autism had been rising.

Mumps viruses or their respective biological fingerprints were not consistently found in biological fluids or tissue taken from autistic children at higher rates than nonautistic children (for a comprehensive review rejecting the mumps virus-autism link, see Stratton et al<a href="Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies - PMC">9</a> and Modabbernia et al<a href="Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies - PMC">10</a>). …”

Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies - PMC

Despite significant progress in the study of the epidemiology and genetics of autism, the etiology and patho-physiology of this condition is far from being elucidated and no curative treatment currently exists. Although solid scientific research ...
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“…Vaccines do not cause autism. A small study in 1998 suggested a link between vaccinations and autism spectrum disorder. The study was reviewed further and retracted. In addition, the author's medical license was revoked due to falsified information.

Since then, numerous studies have debunked a connection between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

In April 2015, JAMA published the largest study to date, analyzing the health records of over 95,000 children. About 2,000 of those children were classified at risk for autism because they had a sibling already diagnosed with autism. The study confirmed that the MMR vaccine did not increase the risk for autism spectrum disorder. ..”

 
nycfan said:
Except they did. Quite a lot of research was done in the Wake of Wakefield’s now discredited publication in The Lancet in the late ‘90s and they could not replicate his findings.
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Oh. I thought there were a few studies but Wakefield's study was retracted because it was completely fake. Anyway, guess I'm wrong about that. I'm right about the link between vaccines and autism making no sense.
 

Utah to Become First State to Ban Fluoride in Public Water​

Most public-health experts say the mineral additive is crucial protector against tooth decay​



"...The Republican governor said that half the state already doesn’t have fluoride added to the water and that dentists he had spoken to said there haven’t been dramatic differences between the different counties.

“It’s got to be a really high bar for me if we’re going to require people to be medicated by their government,” said Cox on ABC4 Utah.

“It’s not a bill I felt strongly about; it’s not a bill I care that much about, but it’s a bill I will sign,” he said.

The Utah law is set to take effect in early May. It will be the first state with such a ban. ..."
 
nycfan said:

Utah to Become First State to Ban Fluoride in Public Water​

Most public-health experts say the mineral additive is crucial protector against tooth decay​



"...The Republican governor said that half the state already doesn’t have fluoride added to the water and that dentists he had spoken to said there haven’t been dramatic differences between the different counties.

“It’s got to be a really high bar for me if we’re going to require people to be medicated by their government,” said Cox on ABC4 Utah.

“It’s not a bill I felt strongly about; it’s not a bill I care that much about, but it’s a bill I will sign,” he said.

The Utah law is set to take effect in early May. It will be the first state with such a ban. ..."
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"...Typically, local municipalities decide whether to add fluoride to their water, though some states require water systems of a certain size to fluoridate. Lawmakers in states including Kentucky and South Dakota have filed bills to challenge those mandates.

Lawmakers in states including North Dakota, Tennessee and Montana have also attempted to follow in Utah’s footsteps and pass bills banning the practice statewide.

...As of 2022, about 72% of the U.S. population on community-water systems were receiving fluoridated water, according to CDC data. However, many European countries, such as France and Germany, don’t add fluoride to their water.

Some cities that chose to defluoridate later added fluoride back to the water supply. The Canadian cities of Calgary and Windsor both chose to refluoridate after studies found an uptick in tooth decay.

Critics of the practice notched a victory last year when a federal judge in California ruled that the CDC-recommended fluoride level—0.7 milligrams per liter—posed an unreasonable risk of harm. The judge said the fluoride level didn’t comply with federal standards requiring an exposure level below one-tenth of the level at which a substance is hazardous. He ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to take regulatory action in response, but didn’t specify what it should be.

...The criticism of fluoride as an additive gained greater prominence with the ascendance of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

He called the mineral “an industrial waste” in a social-media post late last year.

“I was called a conspiracy theorist because I said fluoride lowered IQ,” Kennedy said at his confirmation hearing. “JAMA published a meta-review of 87 studies saying that there’s a direct inverse correlation between IQ loss.”

Kennedy appeared to be referring to a review published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics. The review, which analyzed 74 studies, found that exposure to high levels of fluoride was associated with lower IQ scores in children. The levels studied, however, were more than twice as high as what is recommended by the CDC—and the authors noted that many of the studies had a high risk of bias. ..."
 
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