Vaccin RRO et autisme : la désinformation à l'œuvre
The goal of this article is to provide an up-to-date summary of the controversy that was created by Wakefield and his colleagues around the possibility that the MMR vaccine is a possible trigger of a form of autism. After a presentation of the research of Wakefield et al., the authors show that research in several different countries indicates that there is no foundation to the hypothesis that there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. The results are presented through a discussion of three themes: the nature of the recent increase in autism cases, the methodology used to verify the hypothesis that there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and the ethical issues that surround such a controversy.
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