More current research on autism/vaccine link from same source linked in prior Notable post. Beware the anti vax potato. There are genetic links (Chromosone 11) being studied. Also, in vaccines, as with all compounds, the poison is in the dose. Homeopathic medicine utilizes this concept of treatment. Schiff is getting press againse anti-vaxxers while failing to disclose that California has legislated in support of the anti vax movement. Tread carefully. The anti vax movement was launched by one of the shadiest characters around these here parts: fking Jim Carey.

Dunning-Kruger effect: In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the inability of low-ability people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.

Knowing less but presuming more: Dunning-Kruger effects and the endorsement of anti-vaccine policy attitudes. 2018 Aug;21

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29966822

RESULTS: More than a third of respondents in our sample thought that they knew as much or more than doctors (36%) and scientists (34%) about the causes of autism. Our analysis indicates that this overconfidence is highest among those with low levels of knowledge about the causes of autism and those with high levels of misinformation endorsement. Further, our results suggest that this overconfidence is associated with opposition to mandatory vaccination policy. Overconfidence is also associated with increased support for the role that non-experts (e.g., celebrities) play in the policymaking process.

CONCLUSION: Dunning-Kruger effects can help to explain public opposition to vaccination policies and should be carefully considered in future research on anti-vaccine policy attitudes.

Part 2/w links to follow

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Vaccines and autism: evidence does not support a causal association

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17928818

The Rise in Autism and the Mercury Myth

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1744-6171.2008.00152.x

Vaccines are not associated with autism: an evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24814559

Vaccines are not associated with autism: an evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24814559

This autism dad has a warning for anti-vaxxers: Why a vaccine researcher is waging war on the anti-vaccine movement

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/10/16/17964992/vaccine-autism-book-peter-hotez

In a new book, Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism, Hotez traces the roots of the problem back to 1998, when an esteemed medical journal published a small study that has become one of the most notorious and damaging research papers in medicine. The study, led by the discredited physician-researcher Andrew Wakefield, suggested there’s a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine — which is administered to millions of children around the world each year

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Vaccines and Autism: A Misconception that Persists.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28806013

Principal Controversies in Vaccine Safety in the United States. 2019 Feb 12

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30753348

Abstract

Concerns about vaccine safety can lead to decreased acceptance of vaccines and resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases. We summarize the key evidence on some of the main current vaccine safety controversies in the United States, including: 1) MMR vaccine and autism; 2) thimerosal, a mercury-based vaccine preservative, and the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders; 3) vaccine-induced Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS); 4) vaccine-induced autoimmune diseases; 5) safety of HPV vaccine; 6) aluminum adjuvant-induced autoimmune diseases and other disorders; and 7) too many vaccines given early in life predisposing children to health and developmental problems. A possible small increased risk of GBS following influenza vaccination has been identified, but the magnitude of the increase is less than the risk of GBS following influenza infection. Otherwise, the biological and epidemiologic evidence does not support any of the reviewed vaccine safety concerns.

Autism occurrence by MMR vaccine status among US children with older siblings with and without autism. 2015 Apr 21

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25898051

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this large sample of privately insured children with older siblings, receipt of the MMR vaccine was not associated with increased risk of ASD, regardless of whether older siblings had ASD. These findings indicate no harmful association between MMR vaccine receipt and ASD even among children already at higher risk for ASD.