Scientific Analysis between Vaccines and Autism This paper is about scientific data that was done and collected to determine if babies who received vaccines suffered from autism. As a future special education teacher, I thought it would be interesting to look into the study of this. There has been a significant amount of babies who appear healthy and as they reach the toddler stage parents discover that their child has a form of autism. The conclusion is that parents believe that this is happening to their children because of the vaccines they had when they were babies. Due to this belief, there was a significant amount of parents who were choosing not to vaccinate their babies which led …show more content…
The purpose of documenting these children was to investigate the hypothesis of whether vaccines are a direct cause of autism. Many factors were considered when analyzing the research and documenting the percent rates. There was a risk ratio (probability of occurring for an exposed group and a non-exposed group) based on the age, birth weight, sex, and the socioeconomic status of the families. In simple terms, doctors and scientist would compare the documented cases of the children who did and do not develop autism based on their identification number and shot records. Researchers treated the vaccination as a time-dependent variable and researchers calculated the relative risk when looking at each child. All data was continually followed up and record in tables. Table one was based on the characteristics of the 537,303 children in the Danish Cohort, and table two was based on the adjusted relative risk of Autistic Disorder, who were vaccinated versus children who were not vaccinated. Documentation on medical birth registries was also used in the research. Researchers also went back and reviewed vaccination records from the civil registry number. The research provided further study possible outcomes of autism in adults and other children born during the dates of January …show more content…
The researchers had a hypothesis, tested their observations, made a prediction, recorded results and provided conclusions that explained their findings. The experiment also had a controlled area with a large group of test subjects that did and did not receive vaccinations. The research was conducted for approximately seven years, and detailed records were kept over the seven years regarding the children. Researchers also took into account for differences in the test subjects regarding their birth weights, sex, age, etc. After careful review of all the data, it was determined that relative risk of autistic disorder in the group of vaccinated children, compared with the unvaccinated group, was ninety-two percent, meaning there was no clear evidence linking autism to vaccines. While some remain skeptical of vaccinations, it is evident through research vaccines are not the cause of autism. Twenty epidemiologic studies have proved that vaccines do not cause