āāVaccines donāt cause autismā has never been proven.ā Correct, because thatās not how science works.
If I say āsunning your perineum twice per day increases your IQ by 10 pointsā you would say, āprove it.ā The burden of proof is on me, the person with a tanned perineum. If I responded by saying, āno, you prove to me perineal sunning DOESNāT increase your IQ by 10 points,ā I am operating under the false assumption that my perineal sunning claim is fact without evidence to back it up.
The burden of proof is on the person claiming that vaccines cause autism, not the other way around.
RFK Jr. just broke down to a college student that the claim āvaccines donāt cause autismā has never been proven.
āThe people who told you that have been lying to you.ā
āIn fact, only one vaccine has ever been studied, the MMR vaccine.ā
āThe 20 doses of the seven vaccines that are given during the first year of life ā the DTP, the Hib, the hepatitis B, the pneumococcal vaccines and the polio vaccines ā have never been studied.ā
āCongress passed the 1986 Vaccine Act and said, youāve got to study the DTP vaccine⦠That study has never been done.ā
āThe only studies that were done were MMR studies, and they were all epidemiological studies⦠you canāt prove causation with an epidemiological study.ā
āIn 2017, the Institute of Medicine looked at all of the MMR studies and they threw out all but four of them⦠and the four that were left were all epidemiological studies.ā
āNone of them did what you would want to do if you actually wanted the answer, which is to compare health outcomes in a vaccinated group against health outcomes in an unvaccinated group.ā
āThatās what we need to do and those studies weāre doing now.ā