Why we know that vaccine/autism claims are bollocks

A common false claim of antivaxxers, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr, is that vaccines cause autism. This claim started with a specific claim about the MMR vaccine, but some antivaxxers have now taken it further and extended it to all vaccines using spurious claims about vaccine ingredients. So, in this video, Dr Susan Oliver and Cindy the dog will go back to the science and first show why the MMR vaccine / autism is bollocks, and then show why the other claims are also bollocks.

Buy me a coffee (or Cindy a treat)
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SusanAndJulie

Links to other videos mentioned:

How RFK Jr made nonsense sound credible on Joe Rogan
https://youtu.be/rNA1Y3qTpuE

CLIP: Antivaxxers mercury confusion
https://youtu.be/OKw4F5xwbdo

Links to data:

Autism – A different brilliant
https://www.autismspectrum.org.au/about-autism/what-is-autism

RETRACTED: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(97)11096-0/fulltext

How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed
https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347

Time trends in autism and in MMR immunization coverage in California
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11231748/

Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism – A Nationwide Cohort Study
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M18-2101

Neurologic Disorders After Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/110/5/957/64506/Neurologic-Disorders-After-Measles-Mumps-Rubella

Blood and Hair Aluminum Levels, Vaccine History, and Early Infant Development: A Cross-Sectional Study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28919482/

Comorbidity of intellectual disability confounds ascertainment of autism: implications for genetic diagnosis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26198689/

Autism phenotype versus registered diagnosis in Swedish children: prevalence trends over 10 years in general population samples
https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1961.long

Thimerosal Exposure in Infants and Developmental Disorders: A Retrospective Cohort Study in the United Kingdom Does Not Support a Causal Association
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/114/3/584/67149/Thimerosal-Exposure-in-Infants-and-Developmental

Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines and Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Critical Review of Published Original Data
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/114/3/793/67190/Thimerosal-Containing-Vaccines-and-Autistic

Autism and thimerosal-containing vaccines - Lack of consistent evidence for an association
https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(03)00113-2/fulltext

Vaccines are not associated with autism: An evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X14006367