Vaccine & Autism: NO Correlation

Vaccines save our lives from harmful infectious diseases, yet parent's are hesitant to get there children vaccinated after hearing the word "vaccine" and "autism" in the same sentence. In fact, USA Today reports that at least 10% of parents of young children skip or delay routine vaccinations.

The vaccine that many people have tried to correlate with autism is the MMR vaccine, which stands for three diseases: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella. This is a critical vaccine for infants to get because measles alone is the deadliest rash/fever illness a child can develop.


A lot of talk of vaccines and autism has sparked in the media because of  one celebrity,  Jenny McCarthy. McCarthy gained notoriety when she spoke out to the public after she believed her son developed autism after getting vaccinated. Mccarthy told Time Magazine a ludicrous belief that she thinks "it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe. If the vaccine companies are not listening to us, it's their f___ing fault that the diseases are coming back."To me, it  seems like McCarthy is in denial about her son being diagnosed with autism, so she is trying to find a source to blame, which is clearly not the solution because she thinks harmful diseases that "resurface" like Polio, will be the only way to make vaccines "safer" and preventative of autism.

Do you think there is any chance the vaccines cause autism?