The Final Nail In The Coffin Of The Vaccine Causes Autism Myth
Well, another nail in the coffin that science has long ago shut, but true anti-vaccine believers will never acknowledge. Still...
http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/final-nail-coffin-vaccine-autism-myth/
"But one more article, one more peer-reviewed paper has just been published that should slam the door shut on the vaccine-autism myth. But I am not naïve, I know that the antivaccination cultists will invent some logical fallacy to continue to lie about the tie between vaccines and autism. The research, published in the journal Vaccine, is a meta-analysis of five cohort studies involving 1,256,407 children, and five case-control studies involving 9920 children. As I’ve written before, meta-analyses form the basis, the deep foundation, of the scientific consensus, and they are the highest quality scientific evidence available. This study is like a gigantic clinical trial because it rolls up the highest quality data from those millions of subjects to develop solid conclusions.
So what did the authors find?
There was no relationship between vaccination and autism (OR: 0.99; 95% CI: 0.92 to 1.06). This means that the odds that a person has autism and being vaccinated is equivalent to the odds that a person has autism and not being vaccinated.
There was no relationship between vaccination and ASD (OR: 0.91; 95% CI: 0.68 to 1.20).
Similarly the case-control data found no evidence for increased risk of developing autism or ASD following MMR, Hg, or thimerosal exposure when grouped by condition (OR: 0.90, 95% CI: 0.83 to 0.98; p=0.02) or grouped by exposure type (OR: 0.85, 95% CI: 0.76 to 0.95; p=0.01).
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Best line of the night.
Sid
they are produced by big evil pharmaceutical companies only out to make profit and not to cure anything. 
I had to add that. I work in the pharmaceutical industry in phase II - IV clinical trials. Currently working on an improved HPV vaccine; a actual cure for Hepatitis C (one was just approved but the pricing seems high) and the first drug with the potential to significantly slow the progression of Alzheimer's Disease among other therapies. And I will state here that I would not trust the pharmaceutical companies as far as I could throw them and want to see the revolving door between the FDA and the industry permanently locked but good luck with that one.
I worked as a clinical microbiologist in the pediatric setting before the advent of the vaccines and saw a lot of kids severely injured or die from what is now preventable diseases because of the advent of good vaccines.
