Fact-check: “Vaccines cause autism”
Verdict: False (99% confidence)
Decades of large-scale epidemiological research — including a 2019 Danish cohort of 657,461 children, a 2026 U.S. cohort of 2.5 million children, and a 2014 meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies — consistently find no association between vaccines and autism. The CDC, WHO, NIH, National Academies of Medicine, FDA, and AMA all conclude that vaccines do not cause autism, and the original 1998 Wakefield paper that sparked the claim was fully retracted in 2010 after investigators found th…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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