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Why Does Donald Trump Think Vaccines Cause Autism?

Noah Gray | Posted 04.13.2012

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Noah Gray

Why would Mr. Trump do this? Why would he carelessly extend a wildly unpopular theory amongst researchers to a public that may not be aware of the actual science and decade-plus amount of work that have gone into discrediting the link between vaccines and autism?

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Unencumbered By Facts: What Upsets Me Most About the Anti-vaccine Movement

Claire McCarthy, M.D. | Posted 03.19.2012

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Claire McCarthy, M.D.

For me, this isn't about fighting. I'm not on a pro-vaccine crusade. My only crusade as a pediatrician is to keep my patients healthy -- and vaccines are part of what I use to do just that.

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Hug Me! I'm Vaccinated

Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Jenny McCarthy, Flu Vaccine, Talk Nerdy to Me, Vaccination, Andrew Wakefield, Medicine, Flu Season, Craig Venter, Vaccination Myths, Science, Healthy Living News
Cara Santa Maria

Why, if a free flu vaccination is offered to you only steps from your desk, would you opt not to partake? It's time to cut down the myths.

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Looking Back on the Vaccine-Autism Controversy

Harold Pollack | Posted 08.14.2011

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Harold Pollack

I wrote a review article about the vaccine-autism controversy in the current issue of the policy-wonk journal Democracy. (If you don't read Democracy,...

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Supporting Real Autism Science

Todd Drezner | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Scientific Research, Autism Research, Andrew Wakefield, Autism, Autism Vaccines, Gastrointestinal-Disorder, Pat Levitt, Healthy Living Body, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living News
Todd Drezner

The fight about Wakefield is a fight about the past. And that fight has actually hurt scientific research that could eventually help many autistic people. It's time to move on.

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Andrew Wakefield's Vaccination and Autism Study: Allegations of Fraud With Financial Motivations

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Investigations, False, Fixed, Hoax, Children, Cedars Sinai, Health, Los Angeles, Andrew Wakefield, Autism Study, British Medical Journal, Vaccinations, Vaccines, Dr. Braunstein, Los Angeles News
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

I don't know how many different ways the medical community can say this: Childhood vaccinations do not cause autism. As any competent researcher will tell you, the facts speak for themselves.

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Reasons For the Anti-Vaccine Movement's Appeal

Dr. Elaine Schattner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Elaine Schattner

There are a few lessons that can be learned about communication in medicine and news from the recently retracted vaccine and autism paper.

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Weekly Pulse: Giffords Shooting Reveals Flaws in U.S. Mental Health Services

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head at a constituent outreach event in a supermarket...

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In The Vaccine/Autism Debate, What Can Parents Believe?

Jenny McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jenny McCarthy

I have never met stronger women than the moms of children with autism... This hoopla made us a little stronger, and more determined to fight for the truth about what's happening to our kids.

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Samira Nanda

WATCH: Latest Autism News Explained By Huffington Post Senior Health Editor

HuffingtonPost.com | Samira Nanda | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senior Health Editor Alana B. Elias Kornfeld discusses the story that's hot on HuffPost Health. The story that's making waves is the recent report pub...

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Is Wakefield Losing His Base?

Ken Reibel | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ken Reibel

Andrew Wakefield says he is not going away, but if last week's anti-vaccine rally in Chicago is any indication, his audience is.

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Is Jenny McCarthy Afraid Of The Truth About Autism?

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 11.17.2011

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Iris Erlingsdottir

My aunt will never forget that day in 1975, when her 20 month old daughter woke up from a nap, crying petulantly. The child seemed to be having diffic...

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Andrew Wakefield, British Doctor, Banned who linked autism to vaccine

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — The doctor whose research linking autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella influenced millions of parents to refuse the sh...

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Autism: The Definition of A Social Wrong

Amanda Copeland | Posted 11.17.2011

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Amanda Copeland

We on the frontlines of this world-wide epidemic watch autism pioneers taken down by either a kangaroo court like the GMC or the corporate run media, and scratch our heads in utter stupification.

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Waking Up From the Wakefield Nightmare

Tim Ellis | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tim Ellis

Yesterday, February 2nd 2010, respected medical journal The Lancet came to the long-overdue conclusion that a "study" which included a sample size far...

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The Lancet Retracts Dr. Andrew Wakefield's Article On The Autism/Vaccine Connection

Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jay Gordon, MD

What is clear is that a sloppy evaluation by a medical journal combined with research poorly done is being used to discredit those of us who believe that real research into the causes of autism must continue.

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Vaccine Denial = Scientific Illiteracy

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Autism, David Kirby, Vaccines, Autism Thimerosal, Autism Vaccine Mercury, Thimerosal, Andrew Wakefield, Autism Vaccines, Healthy Living News
Jacob Dickerman

It doesn't matter what the science says, because these people don't care about science. Their argument is purely ideological, and does not belong in any discussion of scientific, medical, or political policy.

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Why I Can Never Die: Autism and Aging

Kim Stagliano | Posted 11.17.2011

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Kim Stagliano

You think wrinkles and gray hair are the scourges of aging? Try imagining your child with autism as an adult and at the mercy of a state run home, an ...

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UK Autism Doctor Launches Formal Complaint Against London Sunday Times Reporter

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

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David Kirby

It has been a full month since the Sunday Times article ran on Dr. Wakefield's autism research, and Wakefield has remained relatively silent about it - until now.

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Doctor Andrew Wakefield, Who Pushed Link Between Vaccine, Autism Falsified Data: Report

Times Of London | Brian Deer | Posted 11.17.2011

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THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appeara...

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