CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Large Studies Have Shown that Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism

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GUPTA: "Yeah, I mean, there’s been plenty of studies around this. I mean, I think this started back in the late 90s with a paper around 12 kids who had received the MMR vaccine and developed autism. That paper was subsequently retracted, but it did sort of stimulate a lot of other studies, Erica. Over the last 25 years or so, large studies, studies of hundreds of thousands of kids, followed for many years in different countries around the world, kids who are vaccinated, kids who are not vaccinated, was there a likelihood of developing autism in the vaccinated group? And what they found was that that wasn’t the case. So, you know, these studies have been done. It was a worthy question, perhaps, initially when it was asked 25 years ago, but then those questions were answered by these studies. What I think is interesting, Erica, is that you just heard, even in Brian’s piece, this desire, as RFK says, just show me the data. Well, he’s seen the data and then that data is not good enough, because I think it’s really not about the data. It’s about who’s delivering the data. What you constantly see is not sort of an assailing of the message, but more an assailing of the messenger, so just really sort of creating this distrust in scientists who are doing these studies, and those scientists are part of an organization, the NIH, that he may or may not be leading here in some time. So I think that’s what’s really raising some concerns."