Well, most of us know that.
On one side, you have the followers of Andrew Wakefield who think that the MMR vaccine is to blame.
To be clear, they seem to think that the problem isn’t necessarily vaccines, but rather the combination of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines into one.
Wakefield had even filed a patent on his own vaccine replacement – a measles vaccine.
Then you have folks like Robert F Kennedy, Jr who claim that it is thimerosal in vaccines, which was actually removed in the late 1990s, that is to blame.
The thing is, although RFK, Jr believes that kids are still exposed to lots of thimerosal in vaccines, the MMR never ever contained thimerosal. So, if the MMR vaccine causes autism, it isn’t because of thimerosal.
And believe it or not, some folks don’t even blame vaccines!
Well, they still blame vaccines.
They think vaccines are contaminated with glyphosate.
That’s right, she thinks half of all kids will be autistic in just 8 years.
And lastly, you have folks who just want to blame anything and everything about vaccines.
They may have blamed the MMR vaccine or thimerosal at one time, but may have moved on to other vaccine ingredients, like aluminum or formaldehyde, or simply getting too many vaccines at the same time.
Or they may believe in combinations of theories, with all of the ‘toxins‘ in vaccines supposedly having a synergistic effect – causing autism.
In many cases, they might not even be sure what it is about vaccines that causes autism, but they are still sure it is vaccines.
Why are there so many competing theories about how vaccines could cause autism?
Could it be because vaccines don’t cause autism?
Whichever anti-vaccine expert is pushing their theory, remember that vaccines still don’t cause autism.
Study – The familial risk of autism.