Executive summary

There was only one study (Taylor (1999)) looking at temporal proximity of vaccination to autism onset.

It NEVER looked at symptom onset rates within 1 week after the shot.

Instead, they used 1 to 2 year timeframes.

Their study showed it took an average of 19 months before first symptoms until a clinical diagnosis was entered into the medical records.

THE STUDY NEVER TALKED TO ANY OF THE PARENTS, they relied exclusively on what is in the medical records.

So what do parents say if you ask them directly? That 90% of the cases happened within 1 week of a vaccine shot.

But what parents say are considered “anecdotes” by the scientific community and what is in the medical records is considered “science.”

This is why there is a huge disconnect between reality and “science.”

The paper

Autism and measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine: no epidemiological evidence for a causal association , Taylor et al., 1999 in The Lancet.

Key table showing a 19 month gap between the age at regression until it was diagnosed officially:

And then they only looked at 1 and 2 year time frames and relied solely on medical records. They never talked to any parent directly to see if the medical records accurately reflected what happened. This is considered high quality research. Why get your feet wet with a little reality?

But when you have a mean of 19 months from onset to diagnosis, most of the cases will naturally be more than a year from the shot which is what they found as you can see below where 138 cases were diagnosed within 24 months of the shot but only 31 cases within 12 months. It’s all because doctors take forever to make a diagnosis, not because onset happen >1 year from the shot.

Here’s what happens when you directly ask the parents what they observe

90% of the parents who recall when it happened, recall that it happened within a week after vaccination.

What happens when you ask parents in PERSON? Nearly every hand in the room goes up!

They’ve done surveys like I did above at AutismOne conferences. AutismOne Conferences are the most comprehensive autism conferences in the world.

What happens? Nearly everyone raises their hand about their child having onset within days after getting a vaccine.

If you were at one of these conferences and saw this first hand, please let me know in the comments what happened. And don’t worry, your observation is just an anecdote. 🙂

Here’s the first to reply:

And check out this comment:

Polly Tommey’s statistics (the Vaxxed Bus)

Polly Tommey is known for Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe (2016), Vaxxed III: Authorized to Kill (2024) and Vaxxed II: The People’s Truth (2019).

She has nterviewed about 5,000 parents whose kids have autism caused by vaccines.

In all but 2 cases, it happened within 1 week of the shot.

OK, I get there is selection bias because people seeking out Polly are going to believe their child was vaccine injured, but nearly all in under a 1 week?

Come on. If this was coincidence, she’d be seeing cases happening 8 days later, 9 days later, etc. There wouldn’t be this sharp cutoff.

What happens if you post a video of that question being asked?

It’s censored of course! That’s how “science” works.

But that’s just an “anecdote” and “science” says we can safely ignore it, right?

Summary

The Taylor study researchers wrote: “We hope our results will reassure parents and others who have been concerned about the possibility that MMR vaccine is likely to cause autism and that they will help restore confidence in MMR vaccine.”

Nope. They sure don’t.

If you want to reassure us, you should collect the data from parent interviews, not from medical records.

ANYONE can replicate my survey in seconds of effort.

Perhaps someone can explain why my results are so lopsided if there is no connection?