Why Do Vaccinations Cause Autism?

Vaccinations do not cause Autism Jonas Salk was a medical researcher and virologist who created the polio vaccine in 1952. Thanks to Mr.Salk polio is eradicated in the wealthier countries. Mr.Salk has won numerous medals for his contributions to science, such as the John Scott Legacy Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, Lasker - DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, the Meritorious award and many more. However more recently vaccinations have come under heavy fire because of claims that they can cause Autism. These are completely baseless hypothesis and have no scientific support. In fact all data proves that there is no existing scientific connection between vaccinations and Autism. In order to refute these
Autism itself can be broken down into more diagnoses such as; childhood disintegrative disorder, pervasive developmental disorder and asperger syndrome (Inc). Autism signs begin to show more prominently in children ages two to three (Inc). However, children can show signs of Autism before two and three but it is incredibly uncommon (“Clinical Trials”). Some signs of Autism are; no babbling or pointing by age one, no single words by sixteen months, no two word phrases by age two, no response to name, loss of language or social skills previously acquired, poor eye contact, excessive lining up of objects (ie. toys), no smiling or social responses, impaired ability to make friends with peers, impaired ability to initiate or sustain a conversation with others (“Clinical Trials”). Autism does not just affect the social aspect of the child's life or even the child's life alone, having Autism increases the risk of having epilepsy (“Clinical Trials”). 20 to 30 percent of people with Autism develop epilepsy by the time they reach adulthood (“Clinical Trials”). Emotional disorders like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia also are more prevalent in families of people with Autism rather than families that have no history of Autism (“Clinical Trials”). While many studies have been done on Autism, scientists have be unable to figure out what causes a child to develop Autism (Inc). However, they have been
A scientist named Andrew Wakefield started studying bowel problems that were linked to the MM2 vaccine, his studies eventually began to link autism and vaccines together (“Do vaccines cause autism?”). Two other scientists, Fudenberg and Gupta also started to back his claims (“Do vaccines cause autism?”). Eight years later Wakefield along with twelve other scientists published an article stating one hundred percent that there is a connection between vaccinations and autism (“Do vaccines cause autism?”). However, when someone digs deeper into Wakefield's personal finances he filed a patent for a single antigen vaccines, the only “safe” type of vaccines only a year before he published that article (“Do vaccines cause autism?”). Then in 2004 Dr. Richard Horton, the editor of Lancet, came out to the public and told them that Wakefield had been paid by attorneys seeking to file a lawsuit against vaccination makers (“Do vaccines cause autism?”). The article was completely removed from Lancet in 2010 and Wakefield was banned from practising medicine in the United Kingdom three months later (“Do vaccines cause autism?”). A year later a journalist named Brian Deer finds evidence that Wakefield committed research fraud and falsified data, further proving no link has been found between autism and vaccines (“Do vaccines cause autism?”). Another case happened in America concerning a little girl named