AUSTIN, TX (March 5, 20 2 0) In a federal lawsuit filed by the non profit Informed Consent Action Network the Center for Disease Control has failed to produce scientific studies that back up its long declared assertion that vaccines given to babies in the first six months of life do not cause autism.
The CDC claims on its website that “Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism.” 1 Despite this claim, studies have found between 40% and 70% of parents with an autistic child continue to blame vaccines for their child’s autism, typically pointing to vaccines given during the first six months of life. 2
Vaccines given during the first six m onths of life, according to the CDC’s childhood vaccine schedule, include three doses each of DTaP, HepB, Hib, PCV13 and IPV, for a total of fifteen doses in these six months. 3
In the summer of 2019, ICAN submitted a Freedom of Information Act ( request to the CDC for “All studies relied upon by CDC to claim that the DTaP vaccine does not cause autism.” 4
ICAN also submitted this same request for HepB, Hib, PCV13 and IPV vaccines, and additionally requested that the CDC provide studies to support its claim that the cumulative exposure to these vaccines during the first six months of life do not cause autism. 5
Despite months of demands, the CDC failed to produce a single study in response to these FOIA requests. 6
ICAN was therefore forced to su e the CDC in federal court, where the CDC finally entered into a stipulation signed by a federal court judge, that made clear it cannot scientifically support its claim that these vaccines do not cause autism. 7
In the stipulation, the CDC was only able to identify 20 studies:
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One relating to MMR (a vaccine ICAN did not challenge);
1 https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html
2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16685182; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25398603; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16547798; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448378/
3 https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/downloads/child/0-18yrs-child-combined-schedule.pdf
4 https://www.icandecide.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Stipulation-and-Order-Fully-Executed.pdf
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 https://www.icandecide.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/001-COMPLAINT-against-Centers-for-Disease/Control-and-Prevention.pdf
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