Monday, 29 September 2025

MMR Vaccine Nonsense

While making his ridiculous and unsubstantiated statement on pregnant women taking Paracetomal during pregnancy, he also claimed that there was a link between the mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.
I remember speaking about this way back when it was a thing over here and i have dug out the details from back then and since then (2000ish), it has become even more clear that it is nonsense.
The link between childhood vaccines and autism first gained mainstream attention after a paper by British doctor Andrew Wakefield was published in the medical journal The Lancet in 1998 but it was discovered that Wakefield was found to have financial conflicts of interest including that some of his test patients connected with a lawsuit against vaccine companies and the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) found that he falsified his results. The research paper was retracted and Wakefield was struck off the medical register in 2010.
Multiple studies since have found no link between the MMR vaccine and autism, a study from Denmark in 2019 looked at 1.4 million children and concluded that their was no link between childhood vaccines and autism.
One ingredient in vaccines, Aluminium, was targeted by weird anti-vaxxers as the cause of autism but the childhood vaccines contained 4.4mg which is less than breast milk (7mg), Formula milk (38mg), and even a slice of cheese (50mg) so that idea quickly fell flat.
Studies show that the genetic and environmental factors such as air pollution and exposure to pesticides are the largest driver of autism along with older parents, injury during birth and viral infection whilst pregnant.
The British Medical Journal explain that autism tends to emerge around the same time children receive the vaccines, around age 2-3 and the UK Government have dismissed any link between vaccines and autism, saying there is 'no evidence' and the CDC in America has said: 'President Trump produced no evidence that the current immunisation schedule in the States was harmful and no evidence that giving the combined MMR vaccine was unsafe' and then showed a graph that shows MMR vaccines in USA have dropped from the 95% threshold needed to prevent transmission of measles virus to between 89% and 92% and blamed that for the US seeing the highest cases for measles in more than three decades, resulting in three deaths.
The GMC added that: The authors of the withdrawn (Andrew Wakefield) paper clearly stated that they had not proven a link but suggested more research should be done. That research has been done, and no evidence of a link has been found'.
As conclusive as it could be from professionals and you would have to be window shakily stupid to dismiss their advice that the overwhelming scientific evidence is that the MMR vaccination is a massive plus for health and is safe for our children and listen to someone who said of a possible cure for during Covid: 'I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?'
Yeah, he's the one to listen to obviously.

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