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Give an example of a false statement that you have read or heard.
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A commonly heard false statement is: "Vaccines cause autism."
Why it's false (brief): This claim originated from a fraudulent 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield that was later retracted; subsequent large, well-controlled studies of hundreds of thousands of children have found no link between routine childhood vaccines (including the MMR vaccine) and autism. Major public-health organizations (CDC, WHO, NHS) summarize this evidence and state that vaccines are safe and do not cause autism.
Why it's false (brief): This claim originated from a fraudulent 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield that was later retracted; subsequent large, well-controlled studies of hundreds of thousands of children have found no link between routine childhood vaccines (including the MMR vaccine) and autism. Major public-health organizations (CDC, WHO, NHS) summarize this evidence and state that vaccines are safe and do not cause autism.
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