Mr Vaccination Theory
Researchers in California conducted a study on how the MMR vaccination possibly causes autism and the study was inconclusive. The researchers found no direct link between the MMR vaccination and autism. According to Jeffery Gerber, “ In California, researchers compared year-specific MMR vaccination rates of kindergarten students with the yearly autism case load of the California Department of Developmental Services during 1980- 1994. The increase in the number of autism diagnoses did not correlate with MMR vaccination rates” (2). Many people believe that the MMR vaccination is linked to autism because certain people needed to pin point autism to one vaccination, however there has been no evidence that has proved that theory. Scientists tested the theory of the MMR vaccination being related to the cause of autism, but they found no scientific evidence for that theory. Therefore, vaccinations are not directly linked to autism because there is no clear evidence that supports that claim. Some parents do not get their children vaccinated because they strongly believe that the MMR vaccine causes autism, however these parents’ theories are not supported by scientific evidence at all. There is no scientific evidence that proves that the MMR vaccination causes
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They try to convince parents that vaccinations cause autism and by doing that they share emotional stories of people who believe that their children are autistic due to vaccinations. According to Robert Wolfe, “Antivaccination Web sites express a range of concerns related to vaccine safety and varying levels of distrust in medicine. The sites rely heavily on emotional appeal to convey their message” (Wolfe). Therefore, these sites really try to bash vaccinations by making up false claims on how they potentially cause autism. These sites find stories about people who have gotten autism due to vaccinations and they try to get sympathy from other people. However, there is no scientific evidence to prove that these children have gotten autism because of getting vaccinated. In the article Content and Design Attributes of Antivaccination Web Sites the author states, “This study systematically collected information on the content and design attributes of antivaccination Web sites. Our results show that such sites express a variety of claims that are largely unsupported by peer-reviewed scientific literature” (Wolfe). In conclusion, many of these sites try to get followers by using emotional appeal not by using actual scientific evidence. Their argument is inconclusive because they have no scientific facts to back up their claim that vaccinations cause the autism spectrum
They try to convince parents that vaccinations cause autism and by doing that they share emotional stories of people who believe that their children are autistic due to vaccinations. According to Robert Wolfe, “Antivaccination Web sites express a range of concerns related to vaccine safety and varying levels of distrust in medicine. The sites rely heavily on emotional appeal to convey their message” (Wolfe). Therefore, these sites really try to bash vaccinations by making up false claims on how they potentially cause autism. These sites find stories about people who have gotten autism due to vaccinations and they try to get sympathy from other people. However, there is no scientific evidence to prove that these children have gotten autism because of getting vaccinated. In the article Content and Design Attributes of Antivaccination Web Sites the author states, “This study systematically collected information on the content and design attributes of antivaccination Web sites. Our results show that such sites express a variety of claims that are largely unsupported by peer-reviewed scientific literature” (Wolfe). In conclusion, many of these sites try to get followers by using emotional appeal not by using actual scientific evidence. Their argument is inconclusive because they have no scientific facts to back up their claim that vaccinations cause the autism spectrum