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A comment on One More Time, with Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cause Autism.

Re:One More Time, with Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cau... by existentialhalt on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:07PM (#19316332)
This study does not evaluate the leading hypothesis of how vaccines could cause autism / other issues.

That hypothesis is the mercury and aluminum exposure. The current MMR vaccine does not contain mercury or aluminum.

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Re:One More Time, with Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cau... by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @01:46AM (#19316819)
> This study does not evaluate the leading hypothesis of how vaccines could cause autism

A hypothesis of how vaccines could cause autism would only be worth evaluating if there were evidence presented of an effect that that hypothesis was necessary to explain.

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