Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism The facts are available, if you look for them

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/vaccine-autism-rfk-jr-how-science-proves-vaccines-do-not-cause-autism/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8eZoOrt3NfohaQ-LORs50WcANTmRIXjkxRK-ikZesXiqLQgvthoSZnlH9OpRQSft-sKyM1CbkeKEfK_ID9JAcJfENQRQ&_hsmi=345537901&utm_content=345537901&utm_source=hs_email FACT CHECK: Vaccines & autism, Bernie & pharma If you’re reading this newsletter, you likely already understand that questions about vaccines and autism have long been settled science — there’s no correlation. But it may be harder to provide any sort of detailed explanation of said science. In a new essay, STAT’s Matt Herper breaks it down. It starts with understanding that there isn’t just one argument that vaccines cause autism, there are three — at least. One focuses on toxins, another on the immune response, and the third on the cumulative effect of an increasing number of vaccines. Scientists have responded to each of these arguments with numerous studies examining all possible mechanisms and associations. And in another needed fact-check, STAT’s Lev Facher and Rachel Cohrs Zhang clarify that, no, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren aren’t top recipients of pharma industry donations. That talking point swept across social media last week, but it’s based on a misunderstanding of data from the popular money-in-politics website OpenSecrets. The site doesn’t differentiate between corporate PAC spending and individual donations by employees at the same company. Read more of the news you can use at the dinner table tonight — from Matt, Lev and Rachel. No, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren aren’t top recipients of pharmaceutical industry donations Behind misleading claim by RFK Jr. is a quirk in the OpenSecrets site https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/big-pharma-pac-contributions-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-open-secrets-data/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9f4q7SA4HuFqslv3WEiwJzDj3M5ixSaZnb2nXRlR-LbyHz1h8ooiPuCrRCcQVBd9_Ecss48K9LxXAWEXEEW_7RTpoWjg&_hsmi=345537901&utm_content=345537901&utm_source=hs_email