May I please request some links to some good sites specializing in thoroughly debunking the vaccine-autism claims?
I’ve got the links to Ben Goldacre’s article The media’s MMR hoax and the recent Times article MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism published just yesterday exposing gross scientific misconduct in a widely-believed paper, but I’m looking for something a little more exhaustive. When I search with Google for “debunking vaccine MMR autism”, I get loads of hits, but they’re mostly individual articles from newspapers and other sites which cover a wide variety of issues rather than sites concentrating solely on critiquing the anti-vaxxer’s autism arguments.
Two sites in my pocket already are QuackWatch on Autism, and The National Council Against Health Fraud, which I’ve read for years, but again, I’m looking for sites that are dedicated to the vaccine-autism issue.
Also, I’m trying to find any reference to a careful scientific survey conducted somewhere in Scandinavia (IIRC) that demonstrated that there was no statistically significant difference in autism rates between children who had been vaccinated and those who never were. I can’t think of a more devastating case against the alleged vaccine-autism link than that!
Thanks.