BBE: Translational Neurodegeneration

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You'd think scientific journals would have learned by now not to publish bogus studies correlating vaccines with autism, especially after The Lancet's fatal mistake of making Quack Andrew Wakefield's bogus study public.

Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young african american boys: a reanalysis of CDC Data

When comparing cases and controls receiving their first MMR vaccine before and after 36 months of age, there was a statistically significant increase in autism cases specifically among African American males who received the first MMR prior to 36 months of age. Relative risks for males in general and African American males were 1.69 (p=0.0138) and 3.36 (p=0.0019), respectively. Additionally, African American males showed an odds ratio of 1.73 (p=0.0200) for autism cases in children receiving their first MMR vaccine prior to 24 months of age versus 24 months of age and thereafter.

Sweet Celestia! As someone with Asperger's, it disgusts me when anti-vaxxers use my disorder as a launching pad for their conspiracy nonsense.

If you want a thorough refutation of this banal bogosity, read this: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/did-a-high-ranking-whistleblower-really-reveal-that-the-cdc-covered-up-proof-that-vaccines-cause-autism-in-african-american-boys/