Editing Controversies in autism (section)

==Vaccines==
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A later-retracted article from ''[[The Lancet]]'' making false claims provoked concern about vaccines among parents. Its author was found to be on the payroll of litigants against vaccine manufacturers.<ref name="retraction">{{cite journal|author=((The Editors of The Lancet)) |date=February 2010|title=Retraction--Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children|journal=Lancet|volume=375|issue=9713|pages=445|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60175-4|pmid=20137807|s2cid=26364726}}
*{{cite news |vauthors=Triggle N |date=2 February 2010 |title=Lancet accepts MMR study 'false' |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/health/8493753.stm}}</ref>

The idea of a link between vaccines and autism was extensively investigated and shown to be false.<ref name = vaccines>{{Cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Luke E. |last2=Swerdfeger |first2=Amy L. |last3=Eslick |first3=Guy D. |date=17 June 2014 |title=Vaccines are not associated with autism: an evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies |journal=Vaccine |volume=32 |issue=29 |pages=3623–3629 |doi=10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.04.085 |issn=1873-2518 |pmid=24814559}}</ref> The [[scientific consensus]] is that there is no relationship, causal or otherwise, between vaccines and incidence of autism,<ref name="BH">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bonhoeffer J, Heininger U | title = Adverse events following immunization: perception and evidence | journal = Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases | volume = 20 | issue = 3 | pages = 237–46 | date = June 2007 | pmid = 17471032 | doi = 10.1097/QCO.0b013e32811ebfb0 | s2cid = 40669829 | url = http://lib.ajaums.ac.ir/booklist/955899.pdf | access-date = 7 February 2019 | archive-date = 14 February 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190214212020/http://lib.ajaums.ac.ir/booklist/955899.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/02/lancet-retracts-mmr-paper |title=Lancet retracts 'utterly false' MMR paper |last=Boseley |first=Sarah | name-list-style = vanc |date=2 February 2010 |work=The Guardian |access-date=2 February 2010}}</ref><ref name = vaccines/> and vaccine ingredients do not cause autism.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html |title=Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism Concerns|date=12 December 2018 |website=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] |language=en-us |access-date=7 February 2019}}</ref>

Nevertheless, the anti-vaccination movement continues to promote myths, [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] and misinformation linking the two.<ref>{{Cite magazine |first=Eleanor |last=Cummins |date=1 February 2019 |title=How autism myths came to fuel anti-vaccination movements |magazine=Popular Science |url=https://www.popsci.com/timeline-autism-myth-anti-vaccine |language=en}}</ref> A developing tactic appears to be the "promotion of irrelevant research [as] an active aggregation of several questionable or peripherally related research studies in an attempt to justify the science underlying a questionable claim."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Foster |first1=Craig A. |last2=Ortiz |first2=Sarenna M. |title=Vaccines, Autism, and the Promotion of Irrelevant Research: A Science-Pseudoscience Analysis |journal=[[Skeptical Inquirer]] |date=2017 |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=44–48 |url=https://www.csicop.org/si/show/vaccines_autism_and_the_promotion_of_irrelevant_research_a_science-pseudosc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006204019/https://www.csicop.org/si/show/vaccines_autism_and_the_promotion_of_irrelevant_research_a_science-pseudosc |access-date=6 October 2018|archive-date=6 October 2018 }}</ref>