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[–] CDanger 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

I don't think anybody is claiming that vaccines reduce the chances of autism by 7%, so this indicates we really don't know the drivers of outcomes are in these complex systems.

The study wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how vaccines might cause autism.

So what even was the point of the study and what does it prove? I doubt vaccines cause autism, but isn't real science.

[–] Kannibal [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

it's a statistical study of basically all children born in Denmark over a ten year period. so I suppose you should be able to draw some conclusions from it.

It's not like you are going to double blind it somehow with another similar population because of how they were looking at things.

[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

Kids who got the MMR vaccine were seven percent less likely to develop autism than children who didn't get vaccinated

That is exactly what they are claiming.

[–] CDanger 0 points (+0|-0)

That's not cause an effect. No responsible scientist would claim that it proves this, but the media has no hesitation of creating the clickbait title on a hot-button issue like vaccines. The article even explains this limitation in the study, but don't count on the masses grasping that nuance--or even reading the article for that matter.

[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

Another study finds no link between autism and measles, mumps and rubella vaccine

That is the headline; hardly clickbait.