evidence: Furthermore, the multiple civil lawsuits that have been filed against vaccine manufacturers by anti-vaccine activists clearly prove the claim is false, as Vaxopedia points out. [...] "MMR vaccine increased autism rate by 236% in African-American boys compared to Caucasian boys" [...] "And, of course, there’s no biologically plausible reason why there would be an effect observed in African-Americans but no other race and, more specifically than that, in African-American males. In the discussion, Hooker does a bunch of handwaving about lower vitamin D levels and the like in African American boys, but there really isn’t a biologically plausible mechanism to account for his observation, suggesting that it’s probably spurious."