Extensive investigation into<unk>  has shown that there is no relationship between the two, causal or otherwise, and that<unk> ingredients do not cause autism. Vaccinologist Peter Hotez researched the growth of the false claim and concluded that its spread originated with Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent 1998 paper, with no prior paper supporting a link. Despite the scientific consensus for the absence of a relationship and the retracted paper, the anti-vaccination movement at large continue to promote myths, conspiracy theories, and misinformation linking the two. A developing tactic appears to be the "promotion of irrelevant research as an active aggregation of several questionable or peripherally related research studies in an attempt to justify the science underlying a questionable claim."
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