Vaccines (Still) Don’t Cause Autism

Why you don’t need to worry about vaccines and autism

Stock photos of vaccines suck, so here’s a brilliant little person being Superman Source: Pexels

There’s a question that has reverberated through the last two decades. From a terrified shriek in the early 2000s, to an angry murmur in the following ten years, to the growing calumny it is today, the question has been debated high and low, and studied far and wide.

It goes a little like this: do vaccines cause autism?

Pictured: Almost certainly botox injections. I did say stock photos of vaccines suck Source: Pexels

Now, we know the answer to this question: it is an emphatic no. There have been studies involving literally millions of children that have failed to find any evidence of an autism-vaccine link. Since 1996 when the question was first raised, to today more than two decades later, there have been hundreds, if not thousands, of studies dedicated to finding even the tiniest increased rate of autism due to vaccines.

They have found nothing. Zip. Nada. The best evidence we have — and it is very, very good — indicates that vaccines don’t cause autism.

And yet, people are still terrified of a link, to the point that vaccine hesitancy/refusal has become a serious concern for the World Health Organisation and is causing…