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cles that it published exposing the link, and this is one source that I referenced earlier, and says
that the Institute of Medicine review has been wrong in the past and has reversed some previous
statements. Finally it talks about how 2004 was “the watershed year in the MMR-autism debate”
because when former Florida US Rep David Weldon went after the CDC and IOM for declaring
that the vaccine is safe even though “there was so much mounting evidence that it is not.”
In comparison with Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism from CDC, we learn that no link is shown
and in the 2011 Institute of Medicine report over eight vaccines that were given to children and
adults, that with rare exception, the vaccines were very safe. The study looked at a number of
antigens from vaccines during the first two years of a child’s life, and they found that the amount
of antigen was the same in children with and without autism. Thimerosal, which was the focus of
the leaked research and the mentioned studies, has been proven by a scientific review conducted
by IOM as well as nine CDC funded studies that all found no link with thimerosal to autism. The
source is extremely biased, and the goal is to prove that vaccines cause autism by refuting all the
main evidence against it, and challenging the decision in the Wakefield case. Nevertheless, I am
using it because it is necessary to address the opponent’s argument.
This source is helpful as it references two sources that I compared to, and it is an argument on
vaccines published in 2014, even after the Wakefield study was retracted, and his career was ruined.
It can be used in conjunction with my article from Rao, so that his anti-Wakefield argument
can shut down part of this sources claim. Mark changed the way that I think about my argument
because I wasn’t that aware that someone would challenge the Wakefield retraction, even after
most of those who worked on the study voted to retract it, the newspaper that published it retracted
it saying that there was no link, and all of the scientific studies that backed this up, as well as
the court cases.
Wakefield, Andrew. “RETRACTED: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular Hyperplasia, Non-specific Colitis, and Pervasive
Developmental Disorder in Children.” The Lancet, Elsevier, 28 Feb. 1998.
In Andrew Wakefields retracted article, he published his research about the findings from research
on 12 children ages 3-10 who were referred to a paediatric gastroenterology unit. He
found associated gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression in this group of children,
and it was linked to environmental triggers, vaccines. Eleven children showed chronic inflammation
of the colon. Behavioural disorders such as autism were found in nine children, disintegra-
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