In 2022, autism rates in the USA reached one in 31 children, rising from one in 250 in 2000. The increase likely results from improved diagnosis and societal changes, contradicting claims by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that dismiss genetic and… Read More »CDC reports on autism incidence and RFK Jr makes false claims
The CDC plans to study potential links between vaccines and autism, despite extensive evidence refuting such claims. Historically, Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 fraudulent study sparked the controversy. Genetic and environmental factors contribute to autism, while vaccines have consistently been shown to… Read More »CDC study to find link between vaccines and autism — REVISED
A poll revealed widespread fear of DNA in food and vaccines, leading to calls for mandatory labeling. This pervasive pseudoscience myth suggests that consuming or injecting DNA can alter human genetics. However, DNA from food and vaccines is broken down… Read More »DNA in food or vaccines is not going to change your genes
New research shows that a mutation in the human leukocyte antigen gene may reduce the risk of expressing COVID-19 symptoms after infection.
An anti-vaccine trope that keeps reappearing is that vaccines somehow cause harm to the MTHFR gene. Except science says they are unrelated.
A peer-reviewed examined over 400,000 medical records which showed a link between drinking alcohol and risk of cardiovascular disease.
DNA in GMO foods and every vaccine will not cause harm and it cannot and will not change your genes. This DNA will not change you.
We have discussed genes and autism before – an article, along with an accompanying editorial, was published in the peer-reviewed JAMA Psychiatry in 2019 examined the genetics of autism. They found that approximately 80% of the cause of autism was genes from the mother and father (since that’s the only way genes get to a child).
Once again, there is no evidence that vaccines were linked to autism spectrum disorder. What’s more important are genes and autism, not vaccines.
Let’s take a brief look at a new paper just published that discusses genes and autism. Spoiler alert, it’s all about genes.Read More »Genes and autism – more evidence that it has nothing to do with vaccines
The old Skeptical Raptor is taking a bit of a break over the next few days to recharge his batteries for all of the pseudoscience that will be coming out in 2020. In lieu of new content, I will be republishing the top 10 most read articles on this blog during 2019. Here’s number 2 – the MTHFR gene and vaccines.
We call them zombie vaccine tropes, beliefs of the anti-vaccine world that keep reinventing themselves and come back alive, despite being dismembered by skeptics and scientists all of the world. One of the most annoying zombie tropes has been the MTHFR gene and vaccines – the trope states that it’s dangerous to vaccinate a child with the MTHFR gene mutation, which really isn’t supported by scientific evidence.
I never know what causes these types of tropes to arise in the first place, and then, why they return from the dead, but the MTHFR gene and vaccines myth seems to be one of them. Let’s take a look at the MTHFR gene, and why there is not really any issues linked between it and vaccines.
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Let’s start right at the top – a new, powerful study has shown that mostly genetics cause autism. Despite the fear, uncertainty, and doubt from the anti-vaccine religion, we have overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccines are not linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is settled science.
Almost all legitimate science researchers who focused on autism never bought into the vaccines link. Not only was there no evidence of this imaginary link (thanks to the cunning fraud Andrew Wakefield), when scientists went looking for a possible link, they never found one.
However, investigators have been searching for legitimate underlying etiologies for ASD – the hypothesis that genetics cause autism has been the center of research for years.
So let’s look at this study in detail so that we all have more evidence to shut down the vaccines and autism tropes. Well, at least we can try, since the pseudoscience that permeates the anti-vaccine world is resistant to scientific facts (see Del Bigtree). Read More »Genetics cause autism in new study – once again, it’s not about vaccines