Vaccines And Autism: Many Hypotheses, But No Correlation Found

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090130093407.htm

Vaccines And Autism: Many Hypotheses, But No Correlation Found

This article is about the amount of parents who are not giving their children the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine due to fear of causing autism in their children. Many scientists feel that that it is merely coincidental that the rate of autism and the vaccine correlate. Technically, no one knows why autism rates have sky-rocketed since 1998, but vaccines have taken the blame. The article seems to be a warning for parents who are not giving their children vaccines. The risks are dangerous, but many parents are still confused. No one is truly sure that vaccines are not the blame; the author is just telling parents that correlation does not technically equal causation.

--Jessica