Anti-Vaxers Prove Themselves Wrong

A study funded by anti-vax group Safeminds in an attempt to prove a link between vaccines and autism has backfired.

http://www.newsweek.com/anti-vaxxers-accidentally-fund-study-showing-theres-no-link-between-autism-and-379245

Despite the science, organizations involved in the anti-vaccine movement still hope to find some evidence that vaccines threaten children’s health. For example, the autism advocacy organization SafeMinds recently funded research it hoped would prove vaccines cause autism in children. But this effort appears to have backfired for the organization—whose mission is to raise awareness about how certain environmental exposures may be linked to autism—since the study SafeMinds supported showed a link between autism and vaccines does not exist.

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/40/12498.abstract

This study does not support the hypothesis that thimerosal-containing vaccines and/or the MMR vaccine play a role in the etiology of autism.

Unsurprisingly, the anti-vaxers are unimpressed, and are now questioning the validity of the study (that they funded).

SafeMinds has concerns about changes in the study design protocol and analysis that may have led to these contradictory results. We are in the process of collecting and reviewing additional information regarding this study.

Goalposts all over the place.

I love when these things happen. If anyone has any other examples of shooting-oneself-in-the-footitis, please share.

bucketybuck

2015 called, it wants its breaking news back.

aaronjumper

bucketybuck wrote: »

2015 called, it wants its breaking news back.

Television called it wants it's old ****e joke back.

magentis

I'm sure they will just keep funding studies until they get the "right" answer for them.
Tinfoil hat brigade.
Absolute idiots,they are putting the lives of countless children at risk.

magentis

magentis wrote: »

I'm sure they will just keep funding studies until they get the "right" answer for them.
Tinfoil hat brigade.
Absolute idiots,they are putting the lives of countless children at risk.

Yeah i'm glad loads of places are incorporating vaccination requirements for enrolment

bucketybuck

bucketybuck wrote: »

2015 called, it wants its breaking news back.

Yes, and I'd love to see more examples of people shooting themselves in the foot, if you have any.

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Oldie but a goodie (skip to about 45 seconds in)

bluewolf

bluewolf wrote: »

Yeah i'm glad loads of places are incorporating vaccination requirements for enrolment

California has made vaccination mandatory for public school enrolment after a big outbreak of measles at Disneyland last year, no more religious exemptions either.

Sadly this means more kids will be homeschooled by extremists, but it's a step in the right direction imo.

Ryan Salmon Kelp

Ryan Salmon Kelp wrote: »

Oldie but a goodie (skip to about 45 seconds in)

Brilliant!