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Kennedy Jr.'s Autism Vaccine Claims

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Vaccines don't cause autism. What does?

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The myth that autism is caused by childhood vaccines has been thoroughly debunked.

The World Health Organization estimates that over the past 50 years , immunizations have saved 154 million lives.

People are more willing to believe conspiracy theories about conditions such as autism, whose causes are complex and not fully understood, than diseases with clear causes.

Autism is very different from conditions like sickle cell anemia or cystic fibrosis, which are caused by a single gene.

Scientists believe that people develop autistic traits due to a combination of genetic vulnerability and environmental exposures.

Many of the known risk factors for autistic characteristics occur before birth or at the time of delivery.

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