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> Sure, he has said this but the few times I've heard him discuss it in any length he raises concerns over how little we know given how vaccine safety studies a

> Sure, he has said this but the few times I've heard him discuss it in any length he raises concerns over how little we know given how vaccine safety studies are done. He also raises examples of individuals he has met with stories that, in his opinion, are concerning enough to raise questions for him whether there is a link between certain vaccines and autism rates His “concerns” about autism has been debunked repeatedly and not taken seriously by anyone in the scientific community. He was claiming a link between autism and vaccines for vaccines that did go through the standard approval process and have been around for years. There is no “data” about vaccines link to autism.

_heimdall 2y ago
> There is no “data” about vaccines link to autism. Vaccine use and autism rates are pretty well correlated. In no way does that imply causation and I agree that RFK leans too heavily into thinking that link exists, but it is also the case that we don't have much good scientific data there either way. Studies for vaccine safety generally don't follow a timeline necessary to pick up links to autism or similar conditions that either take years to develop, or show up one generation down. That isn't unreasonable, the number of confounding factors there would be next to impossible to isolate over such a long time. That still leaves us with little more than modelling and epidemiology to either prove or disprove the link though, at least as I read that the argument couldn't be settled either way.