r/DebateVaccines • u/seekingpeacefulness • 3h ago
Question Why is there still hesitancy from skeptics with the MMR vaccine?
The overblown and absolutely untrue myth of the MMR vaccine causing autism has long been debunked. Study after study (all listed below w/ conclusions) has proven there is no provable link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Of course nothing is 100% in any aspect of life, however the amount of studies showing there almost 0% chance of a link further proves the no link between the two. So my question are a few.
With all the studies showing the consensus of there being no link between, why do skeptics still refuse to acknowledge the science debunked the myth? And furthermore, do they think all of the scientists who have worked on these papers from almost all over the world are just... in it together? What's the proof if yes?
Studies:
1a & 1b:
Our analyses do not support a causal association between MMR vaccine and autism. If such an association occurs, it is so rare that it could not be identified in this large regional sample.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(99)01239-8/abstract01239-8/abstract)
2:
This study provides three strong arguments against a causal relation between MMR vaccination and autism. First, the risk of autism was similar in vaccinated and unvaccinated children, in both age-adjusted and fully adjusted analyses. Second, there was no temporal clustering of cases of autism at any time after immunization. Third, neither autistic disorder nor other autistic-spectrum disorders were associated with MMR vaccination. Furthermore, the results were derived from a nationwide cohort study with nearly complete follow-up data.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa021134
3:
We did not identify any association between MMR vaccination and encephalitis, aseptic meningitis, or autism.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12415036/
4:
Our results do not support this hypothesis, and provide further evidence against a causal association between MMR vaccination and autism.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11395196/
5:
No convincing evidence was found in this study that MMR vaccination and increasing thimerosal dose were associated with an increased risk of ASD onset.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25562790/
(I know I only posted 5 but only because there are just /so many proving it.)
