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Note the asterisk.

Vaccines do not cause Autism*​


Pursuant to the Data Quality Act (DQA), which requires federal agencies to ensure the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information they disseminate to the public, this webpage has been updated because the statement "Vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim. Scientific studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines contribute to the development of autism. However, this statement has historically been disseminated by the CDC and other federal health agencies within HHS to prevent vaccine hesitancy.​
* The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.​
What petulant child is "Junior".
 
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Apparently they found one study to.counteract 26 ones finding no connection.
It's not even that. IIRC, for one class of vaccines (DTAP) the matter hasn't been studied with enough statistics to make any conclusion.

(Wakefield's fraudulent study was about MMR, so that's the one vaccine that's been studied in great detail.)

Nevertheless, we have no reason to believe DTAP is associated with autism. Worse, that webpage is clearly intended to cause distrust of vaccines in general, when its major claim is only true of DTAP.
 
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