That list that starts "There is no science that shows vaccines may cause Autism, except in all these government published studies which show vaccines may cause Autism."

You maybe have seen it on Facebook or on neighborhood discussion groups, or similar. The first part looks like this:

I believe the list was compiled and shared by Marcella Piper-Terry (see footnote for Piper-Terry's claim to anti-vaccine fame) from either her own Facebook page, or the organization she started, but as you can see it pops up a lot. In other words, it's been uncritically shared -- usually with missing links that may have been intact in the original list. I am not sure if Piper-Terry's list was just the first 24 URLs, or the complete list of 56.

First point: very few if any of these are "government published studies". The URLs do indeed end in ".gov" but the studies aren't "published by the US government. PubMed is an index, not a publisher. Having a paper indexed in PubMed used to be a mark of quality, but that hasn't been true for at least two decades. So right off the bat, whoever compiled this list is misinformed, or has the intent to mislead the users of this list.

I decided to number the list (to keep track) and see how many of them were well-known, well-debunked papers.

Link #1 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878266/ This resolves to Geier DA, Hooker BS, Kern JK, King PG, Sykes LK, Geier MR. A two-phase study evaluating the relationship between Thimerosal-containing vaccine administration and the risk for an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in the United States. Transl Neurodegener. 2013 Dec 19;2(1):25. doi: 10.1186/2047-9158-2-25.

First, about two of the authors, David Geier MD, Mark Geier (his son) and access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). They had access on to October 9-10 2003 and February 29-30, 2004.The Geiers describe their VSD exploits in this presentation. Their access to the VSD was covered by federal regulations governing human subjects research, because the VSD consists of individual, identifiable patients' medical records. This is called IRB approval. They had to get IRB approval from each of the health maintenance organizations that had shared information with the VSD. This is not a trivial matter. To do so, the Geiers submitted their research plans to each of the HMOs. While they had access to the VSD, the Geiers did not comply with their previously-stated research aims.

Jeannine Santolini MD, who was at that time the director of the office charged with oversight of human subjects research, summarized the Geiers violation of research ethics as follows, in a February 13, 2004 letter to the IRB directors that approved the Geiers' use of their data in the VSD. (full text: Download Geier IRB letter

In summary, during the first visit the researchers conducted unapproved analyses on the datasets and on the second visit attempted to carry out unapproved analyses but did not complete this attempt. This analysis, had it been completed, could have increased the risk of a confidentiality breach. Before leaving, the researchers renamed files for removal which were not allowed to be removed. Had it gone undetected, this would have constituted a breach of the rules about confidentiality.

In short, the Geiers' conduct when given access to the VSD is an appalling breach of ethics, and taints every paper they publish using VSD data.

On to the paper: even if we ignore the Geiers' breach of research ethics , it is a garbage dump of a paper. The first phase used the publicly-available dataset, Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS) to find reports of autism after thimerosal vs. thimerosal-free vaccination with one vaccine (DTaP) in 1998 to 2000. The DTaP vaccine is given to infants starting at 2 months. The second phase of the paper uses the VSD dataset, for an entirely different vaccine , Hepatitis B, for a different time frame (1991-1998), again looking for autism In 1991, the US began recommending universal vaccination against HepB at birth. At that time, multi-dose vials of HepB vaccines contained thimerosal; after 2000, the multi-dose vials protected from contamination by thimerosal were phased out, in favor of single-dose (and more expensive) vials. The vaccines are different, the time frames are different, and there is no connection between subjects in phase one and phase two. It's meaningless.

This paper has no clear assessment of risk, or theoretical explanation, of the risk of autism from early infancy/childhood exposure to tiny amounts of ethyl mercury from immunization. Further, multiple high-powered studies have failed to find an association between early infancy/childhood exposure to tiny amounts of ethyl mercury from immunization and the subsequent diagnosis of autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 1/56. .

Link #2 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623535 This resolves to Delong G. A positive association found between autism prevalence and childhood vaccination uptake across the U.S. population. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2011;74(14):903-16. doi: 10.1080/15287394.2011.573736.

Junk “science” thoroughly debunked in 2011. It is a shame that it's still being cited. See a few of the criticisms below:

http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2011/07/08/a-positive-association-found-between-autism-prevalence-and-childhood-vaccination-uptake-across-the-u-s-population-2/
http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2011/06/11/speech-impairment-and-autism-inseparable/"The "vaccination rate" (they have a very odd definition) goes up dramatically in the first two years of the study. The "autism+SLI rate" does not. If there were a real association between the two, it would be clear in those first columns of data.
http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2012/03/07/conflicts-of-interest-in-vaccine-safety-research/
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/06/08/more-bad-science-in-the-service-of-the-discredited-idea/
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/05/vaccines-cause-autism-until-you-look-at.html "My conclusion is that this dataset shows no evidence of any association. The author nonetheless found one. How? By doing some statistical wizardry."
http://biologyfiles.fieldofscience.com/2011/06/gayle-delong-safeminds-board-member-and.html "The acceptance and publication of this paper appear to have been careless to an extreme. I'd like to know who the reviewers were."

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 1/56. .

Link #3 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25377033, which resolves to Chhawchharia R, Puliyel JM.Commentary--Controversies surrounding mercury in vaccines: autism denial as impediment to universal immunisation. Indian J Med Ethics. 2014 Oct-Dec;11(4):218-22.

This is not a research paper. It is a commentary by the authors on another paper which was also not a research paper, but the authors of the second paper's opinion.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 1/56. .

Link #4 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24995277, which resolves to Hooker B, Kern J, Geier D, Haley B, Sykes L, King P, Geier M. Methodological issues and evidence of malfeasance in research purporting to show thimerosal in vaccines is safe. Biomed Res Int. 2014;2014:247218. doi: 10.1155/2014/247218. Epub 2014 Jun 4.

First, notice the list of authors and compare them to the list of authors of paper #1. We have established that Geier père et fils have shoddy research ethics. How about the first author, Brian Hooker?

Well, here are a few things about Hooker. He has an autistic son, whose behavioral difficulties Hooker exploited in the propaganda film Vaxxed, of which Hooker was a central character. Hooker was a participant in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding (OAP) (part of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program), alleging his son's autism was caused by thimerosal in vaccines and exposure to the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, but his account of his son's "vaccine injury" has changed over time.. Hooker's OAP claim was denied. In 2014, Hooker published "“Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young african american boys: a reanalysis of CDC data,”" . An epidemiologist found his paper extremely flawed. The paper was withdrawn and ultimately retracted. He, like his co-authors the Geiers, has shoddy research ethics.

A critique of the paper from Skeptical Raptor

It presents no original data that support a hypothesis that vaccines (or thiomersal in vaccines) cause autism.
They critiqued 6 well-designed, epidemiological studies, Andrews 2003, Hviid 2003, Madsen 2003, Price 2010, Stehr-Green 2003, and Verstraeten 2003. For each paper, the Gaiers and their antivaccine ilk co-authors, try to invent these nonsensical conspiracy theories that somehow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pharmaceutical companies, or something controlled the outcomes.
For example, for the Verstraeten study, the Geiers reference an article that is more of a summary, and complain that it shows no data. In fact, the real Verstraeten study, published in Pediatrics, included all of the data. The Geiers absolutely cherry-picked a short summary of the Verstraeten study rather than examining the fully published article. This is laughable, except for those who “believe” in the Geiers’ conclusions, won’t look that deeply.

Skeptical Raptor goes on to reference an article at Forbes,

"Apparently, these authors have been making these outlandish claims about the efforts of the CDC to squash, hide, or destroy data regarding vaccines and autism. This pathetic paper is hardly their first trip to the rodeo (always enjoyed that metaphor). Earlier in 2014, Emily Willingham, Ph.D., a Forbes‘ science writer and expert in autism, deconstructed and dismissed a huge portion of these authors’ previous attempts to slander the good name of the CDC. Apparently, the data in this paper, such as it is, has been an almost 10 year crusade by the authors, especially Brian Hooker, to make their case. Except, they’re using zombie data. They bring it up one year, it gets crushed by the skeptics and scientists, it dies. Then Brian Hooker, using the magic of reanimation, zombifies the data so that it is presented again, as if it was new. It gets crushed again, and then we repeat it.

According to Dr. Willingham, various combinations of the author group for this antivaccination paper brought up the same trope in 1999, 2000, 2004 2005, 2009, and of course this year (and this paper isn’t the first time this year that they have tried to make this nonsense claim about the CDC). Honestly, reading Dr.. Willingham’s article, it’s almost like a comedy, if it weren’t so serious.

Finally, Dr. Willingham really tries to slam the door on this ignorant trope about the CDC hiding data that’s presented by this antivaccination group of authors:"

Doesn’t matter, really. What does matter is that the information it contained is not new in 2014. It wasn’t new even in 2005. What matters is that in 1999, last century, it was preliminary, an opening analysis from a study that continued on through two phases and . What matters is that in the ensuing 15 years after those preliminary data were submitted for a conference presentation, in the second decade of this century, the accumulation of evidence worldwide showing no link has been compelling. Indeed, it is was so substantial by 2002 that the American Academy of Pediatrics retired that year a recommendation that thimerosal be removed from vaccines, a recommendation made in 1999 in spite of no evidence of harm.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 2/56. .

Link #5 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12145534, which resolves to: Singh VK, Lin SX, Newell E, Nelson C. Abnormal measles-mumps-rubella antibodies and CNS autoimmunity in children with autism. J Biomed Sci. 2002 Jul-Aug;9(4):359-64.

Using blood products from typically developing children and autistic children, the authors claimed to have found a protein unique to the measles vaccine in more than half of the autistic children.

This finding has never been replicated. As Paul Offit wrote on page 45 of Autism's False Prophets,

...a closer look at Singh's science revealed two critical flaws: children with autism didn't have nerve damage and, according to measles experts, the test that Singh had used to detect measles antibodies didn't detect them.

Other leading scientists have criticized Singh's research.

Multiple studies in multiple countries with tens of thousands of subjects have repeatedly failed to find an association between measles vaccine and autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 2/56. .

Link #6 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21058170, which resolves to Gallagher CM, Goodman MS. Hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and autism diagnosis, NHIS 1997-2002. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2010;73(24):1665-77. doi: 10.1080/15287394.2010.519317.

Very weak study with numerous flaws. Debunked at (among others):

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 2/56. .

Link #7 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22099159, which resolves to Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA. Do aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism? J Inorg Biochem. 2011 Nov;105(11):1489-99. doi: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2011.08.008. Epub 2011 Aug 23.

Fatally flawed “study” – junk science. Debunked at:

the authors are plotting ASD incidence in each year (1991-2008) against total aluminium content for the pediatric schedule *in that year*. Not (as you might expect) the aluminium exposure for the ASD cases themselves, according to the pediatric schedules of 6 to 21 years previously, but no, that same year.

In effect they are looking for a correlation between the number of people who developed ASD decades earlier, and the number of vaccinations given to other children, in the current year. This is an interesting model of causality!

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 2/56 .

Link #8 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/, which resolves to: Ewing, GE. What is regressive autism and why does it occur? Is it the consequence of multi-systemic dysfunction affecting the elimination of heavy metals and the ability to regulate neural temperature? N Am J Med Sci. 2009 Jul; 1(2): 28–47. PMCID: PMC3364648 PMID: 22666668

This is not a study or review; it's the author's (a wellness entrepreneur) opinions on the cause of autism, informed by his unscientific beliefs about autism and disease. He offers no evidence for his assertions

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 2/56. .

Link #9 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17454560, which resolves to: Geier DA, Geier MR.A case series of children with apparent mercury toxic encephalopathies manifesting with clinical symptoms of regressive autistic disorders. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2007 May 15;70(10):837-51.

Here is another way the Geiers revealed their unethical behavior: The IRB for this study consisted of both authors; the senior author's wife;' Lisa Sykes, whose son was a patient of the Geiers, and was a co-author with the Geiers' Mark Geier’s business partner; Kelly Kerns, who was a petitioner in the OAP, and and Clifford Shoemaker, who was chair of the patient steering committee in the OAP and a a vaccine injury lawyer. In this paper, the Geiers claim that the sources of mercury in the patients' bodies could come from prenatal exposure (via exposure to anti-D immune globulin, which until 2003 was preserved with thimerosal, and the child's own amalgam fillings (which don't emit measurable mercury, as this study shows). The Geiers used hair analysis and/or a "chelation challenge" to test for the presence of mercury in the body of the 8 patients in this study. With respect to mercury, hair analysis has not been shown to be sound science. "The use of a chelating agent before testing—"provoked testing"—should be considered a scam. Anyone told that a urine-mercury level produced after taking DMPS represents a toxic state is being misled."In short, this is another garbage paper from the Geiers.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 3/56. .

Link #10 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19106436, which resolves to Geier DA, King PG, Sykes LK, Geier MR. A comprehensive review of mercury provoked autism. Indian J Med Res. 2008 Oct;128(4):383-411.

Another Geier production. Let's talk about Paul G. King. He has a PhD in analytical chemistry, and is now a consultant who "finds and implements cost-effective regulatory-compliant solutions for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries." Up until 2004, all of his publications were technical, relating to his employment. Starting in 2004, he started writing about an "American mystery disease" -- a myriad of disorders that he blamed on thimerosal in vaccines. I do not know why he became convinced that autism was "mercury toxicity" He joined the Geier's 501(c)3 "Coalition for Mercury Free Drugs" -- usually referred to as CoMeD-- as an officer in 2007. (Tax reports for CoMed are analyzed here). While Dr. King may have had a great deal of expertise in chemistry and manufacturing issues, he has no expertise in autism or in immunology.

This paper also claimed that exposure to mercury (at levels unspecified) "dysfunctions similar to traits defining/associated with ASDs". It simply isn't true.

The image is from a comprehensive review, Nelson KB, Bauman ML, Thimerosal and Autism? Pediatrics March 2003, VOLUME 111 / ISSUE 3.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 4/56. .

Link #11 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3774468/, which resolves to: Kern JS, Haley BE, Geier DA, Sykes LS, King PG, Geier MR, Thimerosal Exposure and the Role of Sulfation Chemistry and Thiol Availability in Autism, Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2013 Aug; 10(8): 3771–3800..

First, note the publication date on this paper: 2013. Thimerosal as causal in autism had been investigated and dismissed in many robust studies in many nations before that time: (Hviid 2003, Institute of Medicine 2004, Andrews 2004, Frombonne 2006, Thompson 2007, Schechter 2008, Price 2010) Why? Why, if the Geiers and their associates were the scientists they claimed to be, would they not accept that their surmise that thimerosal was causal in autism was incorrect, and move on? Could it have anything to do with their sources of income?

Second, let's talk briefly about the lead author, Janet S. Kern [need more]

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 5/56. .

Link #12 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3697751/, which resolves to Sharpe MA, Gist TL, Baskin DS. B-Lymphocytes from a Population of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Unaffected Siblings Exhibit Hypersensitivity to Thimerosal. J Toxicol. 2013; 2013: 801517.

In vitro study, thimerosal (no longer used in U.S. childhood vaccines except for some influenza vaccines), concentrations higher than formerly found in vaccines. Only 11 families studied.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 5/56. .

Link # 13 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3697751/, which resolves to Ratajczak HV.Theoretical aspects of autism: causes--a review.J Immunotoxicol. 2011 Jan-Mar;8(1):68-79. doi: 10.3109/1547691X.2010.545086.

This is one of the more risible papers in the list.

From Kev Leitch at LeftBrain/RightBrain

The rest of the paper is a rogues gallery of debunked and fringe science. Helen Ratajczak cites the Geiers numerous times, DeSoto and Hitlan, Nataf and Rossignol to name but a few. This isn’t a paper so much as an advert for the sort of poor science that was examined in the Autism Omnibus proceedings and roundly rejected by the Special Masters. For goodness sake, she even cites David Ayoub of the Black Helicopter infamy.

David Gorski MD addresses Ratajczak's claim that "human tissue" in vaccines can cause genetic mutations leading to autism:

If there were scientific data that convincingly suggested a hypothesis, even one as implausible as the one above, I’d think about it and possibly even conclude that this is an area worthy of investigation. There were no data presented. There weren’t even studies cited that convincingly supported Ratajczak’s assertions.... How on earth did this get through peer review? Obviously, the peer reviewers of Dr. Ratajczak’s article were either completely ignorant of the background science (and therefore unqualified) or asleep at the switch.... The vast majority of what is discussed, however, is pure vaccine pseudoscience.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 5/56. .

Link # 14 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21907498, which resolves to Rose NR, Conjugate vaccines and autism. Med Hypotheses. 2011 Dec;77(6):937-9. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.08.033. Epub 2011 Sep 9.

This is not a study at all, but the author's opinion on a different speculative article

A word here about the journal, Medical Hypotheses. It started out as a useful idea, a repository for speculative thinking in medicine, but at the latest, 2009 (two years before this article) the journal had degraded into publishing pseudoscience. So any paper published in Medical Hypotheses deserves and extra layer of scrutiny.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 5/56. .

Link # 15 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11339848, which resolves to Bernard S, Enayati A, Redwood L, Roger H, Binstock T.Autism: a novel form of mercury poisoning. Med Hypotheses. 2001 Apr;56(4):462-71.

One of the theories proposed for vaccines causing autism in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was that thimerosal in vaccines was causative. A leading world expert in mercury toxicity and in autism, Patricia Rodier, PhD, testified at length on the Bernard et al. papers. Her testimony is summarized here: Rodier on Bernard et al. and environmental causes of autism . In short, Bernard et al. were wrong on the effects of mercury toxicity and wrong on the toxicokinetics of mercury.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 5/56. .

Link # 16 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17674242, which resolves to Geier DA, Geier MR.A prospective study of thimerosal-containing Rho(D)-immune globulin administration as a risk factor for autistic disorders. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2007 May;20(5):385-90.

A brief introduction to the need for Rho(D)-immune globulin: People may or may not have a specific antibody on their red blood cells, the Rhesus antibody. When a person's blood of one type is mixed with the opposite type, illness may occur. This happens in pregnancy when a mother carries a baby of the opposite blood type, requiring a specific medication, Rho(D)-immune globulin. The brand names were RhoGAM, BayRho ,and WinRho. From 1968 until 2001, these products may have had a few millionths of a gram of thimerosal, used as a preservative. At some point prior to 2000, the idea that exposure to thimerosal could cause autism emerged. One source of thimerosal exposure was for women to receive thimerosal-preserved Rho(D)-immune globulin during and after pregnancy. WinRho never contained thimerosal; BayRho has been thimerosal-free since 1996, and RhoGam became thimerosal-free in 2001. It had a 2-year dating period, so the last possible thimerosal exposure was in 2003.

In 2003, Mark Geier MD was an expert witness in a National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program case, Weiss v. HHS. The Special Master in the case, Laura D. Millman, referred to Geier as "a professional witness in areas for which he has no training, expertise, and experience" and listed nine other cases in which Geier's expert testimony was given "no weight." In 2006, Geier was the only expert witness retained by the plaintiffs to testify as to both general and specific causation. in Doe v. Otho-Clinical Diagnostics, the manufacturer of RhoGam. The claim of harm was that the Doe infant developed autism following thimerosal exposure from the mother's RhoGam shots. Judge James A. Beaty barred Geier's testimony, referring to the previous vaccine court cases and finding:

When subjected to extensive cross-examination, Geier could not point to a single study that conclusively determined that any amount of mercury could cause the specific neurological disorder of autism.
Geier's conclusion that the peer-reviewed literature he has relied upon supports his theory that autism can be caused by thimerosal is flatly contradicted by all of the epidemiological studies available at this time.

With that background in place, note that this study was published in 2007. Dr. Geier's former multi-state medical practice was called "Genetic Centers of America". The Geiers also founded a non-profit, the Institute for Chronic Illnesses, which operated as the Institutional Review Board for this and other studies.(See Link #9 for more discussion.) So here, the Geiers approved their own study, on their own patients. The paper makes no internal sense, with the "controls" being a different population than the subjects. Of particular interest relative to the paper's central assertion (that exposure to thimerosal in utero raising the risk of autism) is a later, much more robust study, Miles JH, Takahashi TN. 2007. Lack of association between Rh status, Rh immune globulin in pregnancy and autism, found no evidence for increased risk of autism from prenatal exposure to thimerosal. You can read the paper yourself. Download Miles Takahashi 2007.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 6/56. .

link # 17 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21993250, which resolves to Richmand BJ. Hypothesis: conjugate vaccines may predispose children to autism spectrum disorders. Med Hypotheses. 2011 Dec;77(6):940-7. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.08.019. Epub 2011 Oct 10.

This is the speculative paper that link # 14 was responding to. The author is contending that conjugate vaccines may somehow unbalance vulnerable recipients' immune systems, and thus cause autism. This is not a study. Autism is not an immune system disorder.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 6/56. .

Link #18 is https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15780490, which resolves to Geier MR, Geier DA.The potential importance of steroids in the treatment of autistic spectrum disorders and other disorders involving mercury toxicity. Med Hypotheses. 2005;64(5):946-54.

This is the paper that underpinned the Geiers' lucrative scheme to "treat" autistic children with a castration chemical,< which probably began in 2004, based on their patent claim. hat malpractice eventually lead to Mark Geier losing his medical license in all 12 states, David Geier being convicted of practicing medicine without a license, and the Maryland Board of Physicians: Mark Geier "endangers autistic children and exploits their parents". Mark Geier has not been exonerated. It is a disgrace that this paper has not been withdrawn.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #19 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12933322, which resolves to Holmes AS, Blaxill MF, Haley BE. Reduced levels of mercury in first baby haircuts of autistic children. Int J Toxicol. 2003 Jul-Aug;22(4):277-85.

Holmes et al. (2003) is one of the weakest of the weak reeds advanced for the argument "mercury exposure causes autism".

The most complete analysis of the flaws in Holmes et al. (2003) was written in 2005 by Prometheus, an academic biological scientist who blogs pseudonymously at Photon in the Darkness.

The first flaw in the study is the authors' acceptance of the idea of "excretion into the hair". Mercury is excreted into hair, but in levels that cannot be calibrated to blood levels. The second flaw is the data collection methods (the hair used in the study ).

The third flaw is that the study found that the autistic children had lower hair mercury levels than the neurotypical controls. Rather than accepting that data, the authors went on to spin "tooth fairy tales" to explain why that might be so (the idea that autistic children had impaired mercury excretion). The fourth flaw in the study involves the hair analyzed: the samples had been in storage under unknown conditions for a median of five and a half years.

It was, when published, a footling study. The fact that it is still cited demonstrates the citee's devotion to a myth, and lack of scientific integrity.

One more thing you should know: Holmes et al. 2003 authors' affiliations are given as Safeminds. Safeminds is an acronym for Sensible Action For Ending Mercury Induced Neurological Disorders. Do you think the authors had an ideological point to make?

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #20 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16870260, which resolves to Walker SJ, Segal J, Aschner M. Cultured lymphocytes from autistic children and non-autistic siblings up-regulate heat shock protein RNA in response to thimerosal challenge. Neurotoxicology. 2006 Sep;27(5):685-92. Epub 2006 Jun 16.

In this study, the researchers grew additional white blood cells from samples, then bathed some in ethyl mercury (not thimerosal), some in a zinc solution, and some in growth media, then measured some purified RNA from each of the test conditions. "Although there were no apparent differences between autistic and non-autistic sibling responses in this very small sampling group". This is not a convincing study on which to base the argument that exposure to vaccines may cause autism

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #21 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19043938, which resolves to Blaylock RL.A possible central mechanism in autism spectrum disorders, part 1. Altern Ther Health Med. 2008 Nov-Dec;14(6):46-53.

This is a speculative, not scientific, article from Russell Blaylock, a retired neurosurgeon who makes his living selling "supplements", published in an alternative health magazine of "dubious scientific rigor."

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #22 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12142947, which resolves to Bernard S, Enayati A, Roger H, Binstock T, Redwood L.The role of mercury in the pathogenesis of autism. Mol Psychiatry. 2002;7 Suppl 2:S42-3.

This is a reworking of the ideas expressed in link #15, which was conclusively debunked in the OAP. Also see Hurley et al., 2010..

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #23 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24675092, which resolves to Li X, Qu F, Xie W, Wang F, Liu H, Song S, Chen T, Zhang Y, Zhu S, Wang Y, Guo C, Tang TS.Transcriptomic analyses of neurotoxic effects in mouse brain after intermittent neonatal administration of thimerosal.Toxicol Sci. 2014 Jun;139(2):452-65. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfu049. Epub 2014 Mar 27.

In this study, the authors used highly-inbred mice, and "subcutaneously injected with thimerosal-mercury at a dose which is 20× higher than that used for regular Chinese infant immunization during the first 4 months of life." The mice behaviors were then evaluated. Mice are a poor model for autism. This study was a waste of mice.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #24 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25198681, which resolves to Geier DA, Hooker BS, Kern JK, King PG, Sykes LK, Geier MR.A dose-response relationship between organic mercury exposure from thimerosal-containing vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2014 Sep 5;11(9):9156-70. doi: 10.3390/ijerph110909156.

We've discussed the Geiers, Brian Hooker, Janet Kern, and Paul King. Who is Lisa Sykes? She is closely associated with the Geiers, serving on the board of CoMeD (see these notes on the organization). She has an autistic child, whose autism she blames on the thimerosal-containing RhoGam injections she received while pregnant.She filed suit against the manufacturer, Bayer, but eventually withdrew the suit in 2008. Shortly after the suit was withdrawn, a very well-done study determined that thimerosal exposure in pregnancy (through RhoGam injections) did not raise the risk for autism.

This paper is a production of the Geiers' Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD). It was also funded in part by the Selz Foundation and the Dwoskin Family Foundation, two anti-vaccine organizations.

The paper's weaknesses were explored in depth by an epidemiologist at More bad epidemiology from Dr. Brian S. Hooker and friends

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 8/56. .

Link #25 is broken, but probably resolves to https://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/153-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link Taylor, Ginger 153 Research Papers Supporting the Vaccine/Autism Link

Ms. Taylor likes to keep adding papers to this list, totally ignoring any criticism. The "124 papers" indicates that this copypasta list was created in 2016, when the list was at 124 papers. I published a critique at 124 Research Papers Supporting the Vaccine/Autism Link...or Not. No, They Don't. . A trauma surgeon has also criticized the papers on the list at 124 (now 144) papers that DO NOT prove vaccines cause autism I also wrote about Ms. Taylor's collation at Ty Bollinger Steals Ginger Taylor's List, Renumbers It, and Markets It to his Fans

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? It's not a paper, it's a collection of unedited abstracts. No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #26 reads "Vaccines caused autism here in this federal court case http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/…/opin…/ABELL.ZELLER073008.pdf". The link is broken. It is likely the creator of his list is referring to Zeller v. HHS, in which Special Master Abell found that the Zeller family is entitled to compensation from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, for encephalopathy and a seizure disorder exasperbated by receipt of the MMR vaccine. You can read the decision here. The determination does not mention autism. Encephalopathy is not autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? It's not a paper, it's a court decision that doesn't mention autism. No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #27 reads "And here page 2 http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/…/CAMPBELL-SMITH.MOJABI-PROFF…" The link is broken. It is likely that it is a reference to Mojabi v. HHS, a case before the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Steven Novella, a neurologist, discusses the case at MMR and Autism Rises from the Dead. Mojabi was compensated for encephalopathy (a table injury), not autism. The person who created this list is lying about the autism aspect. You can read the decision here.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? It's not a paper, it's a court decision. No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #28 reads And here - https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc…. The link is broken; I have no idea what the list creator was trying to link to.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? It's not a paper, it's a court decision. No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #29 reads "Here are 83 cases reviewed by lawyers http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi…". The link is broken. It probably refers to Holland M, Conte L, Krakow R aColin L, Unanswered Questions From The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine- Induced Brain Injury 28 Pace Environmental Law Review pages 480-543 2011. The paper was severely criticized when it came out; I summarize the criticisms in Critiques of Holland et al., Unanswered Questions From The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. It was a fatally flawed paper.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #30 reads "Oh look here's a dead kid compensated https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc…" The link is broken. It is impossible to tell which case the list creator is referring to.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? There's no paper there. No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #31 reads "31 If you ever need a lawyer http://www.mctlawyers.com/vaccine-injury/cases/". It's the URL for a firm that practices primarily in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? There's no paper there. No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #32 reads "Here are 127 separate studies linking vaccines and autism. https://www.scribd.com/…/124-Research-Papers-Supporting-the…". The link is broken; it's citing the same collection of unedited abstracts as discussed in link #25. This is really sloppy compilation.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? It's not a paper, it's a collection of unedited abstracts. No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #33 reads "Read this about Hannah Brusewitz case and how she was harmed by DTP https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/09-152". The link goes to a page that provides educational background on important legal cases. For a discussion of the legal issues in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, please read The Supreme Court rules on Bruesewitz v. Wyeth and vaccine injury cases and Vaccine court jury – is there a constitutional right in NVICP cases? The Bruesewitz case had nothing to do with autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? It's not a paper, it's a legal decision that had nothing to do with autism. No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56 .

Link #34 reads "Supreme Court Unavoidably Unsafe http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-152.pdf". This is a link to the actual Bruesewitz decision. In addition to the legal scholarship linked above, please read Vaccines and "Unavoidably Unsafe" Products and Parents Can Still Sue Vaccine Manufacturers. This ruling has nothing to do with the question of "vaccines may cause autism".

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? It's not a paper, it's a legal decision that had nothing to do with autism. No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 7/56. .

Link #35 reads "A dose-response relationship between organic mercury exposure from thimerosal-containing vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25198681". It's the same as link #24. It does raise the Geier counter.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

Link #36 reads "Relative trends in hospitalizations and mortality among infants by the number of vaccine doses and age, based on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 1990-2010. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22531966". This resolves to Goldman GS, Miller NZ. Relative trends in hospitalizations and mortality among infants by the number of vaccine doses and age, based on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 1990-2010. Hum Exp Toxicol. 2012 Oct;31(10):1012-21. doi: 10.1177/0960327112440111. Epub 2012 Apr 24.

This paper is "dumpster diving in VAERS" and has been widely debunked (here and here for starters). It is a meaningless paper overall, and has nothing to do with autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56.

Link #37 reads "Is infant immunization a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9345669", which resolves to Kemp T, Pearce N, Fitzharris P, Crane J, Fergusson D, St George I, Wickens K, Beasley R.Is infant immunization a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy? Epidemiology. 1997 Nov;8(6):678-80.

This paper has nothing to do with autism

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

Link #38 reads "Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/", which resolves to Miller NZ, Goldman GS. Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity? Hum Exp Toxicol. 2011 Sep; 30(9): 1420–1428.

Another junk science paper from Miller and Goldman. And it has nothing to do with the question, 'may vaccines cause autism"?

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

Link #39 reads "Infection, vaccines and other environmental triggers of autoimmunity. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16126512" which resolves to Molina V, Shoenfeld Y. Infection, vaccines and other environmental triggers of autoimmunity. Autoimmunity. 2005 May;38(3):235-45.. Shoenfeld is a problematic researcher, but that's a matter for another time.

Nothing to do with autism; also seems to be a discursive paper rather than a “research study”. Does not attempt to explain why autoimmune diseases more common in females, but autism more common in males.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

Link #40 reads "DTP with or after measles vaccination is associated with increased in-hospital mortality in Guinea-Bissau. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17092614" which resolves to Aaby P, Biai S, Veirum JE, Sodemann M, Lisse I, Garly ML, Ravn H, Benn CS, Rodrigues A. DTP with or after measles vaccination is associated with increased in-hospital mortality in Guinea-Bissau. Vaccine. 2007 Jan 26;25(7):1265-9. Epub 2006 Oct 18.

This study had nothing to do with autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

Link #41 reads "Measles outbreak in a vaccinated school population: epidemiology, chains of transmission and the role of vaccine failures. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646939/" which resolves to Nkowane BM, Bart SW, Orenstein WA, Baltier M Measles outbreak in a vaccinated school population: epidemiology, chains of transmission and the role of vaccine failures.Measles outbreak in a vaccinated school population: epidemiology, chains of transmission and the role of vaccine failures. Am J Public Health. 1987 April; 77(4): 434–438..

This is the 1987 study that prompted the second dose of MMR in the US schedule, and is a very sound study. However, it has nothing to do with autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

Link #42 reads "A positive association found between autism prevalence and childhood vaccination uptake across the U.S. population. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623535". This is the same as link #2 above, and is still junk science. Repeating papers in this fashion is so sloppy.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

Link #43 reads "Hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and autism diagnosis, NHIS 1997-2002. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21058170" This is the same as link #6 above, and is still junk science. Repeating papers in this fashion is so sloppy.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

Link #44 reads "Abnormal measles-mumps-rubella antibodies and CNS autoimmunity in children with autism. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12145534" This is the same as link #5 above, and is still junk science. Repeating papers in this fashion is so sloppy.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

Link #45 reads "The plausibility of a role for mercury in the etiology of autism: a cellular perspective" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3173748/ which resolves to Garrecht M, Austin DW The plausibility of a role for mercury in the etiology of autism: a cellular perspective, Toxicol Environ Chem. 2011 May-Jul; 93(5-6): 1251–1273. Take note of the 2011 publication date. This paper cites many of the previously debunked papers, copiously citing among others the Geiers as a rationale to be considering the putative role of mercury exposure via vaccines in autism, but fails to cite Hviid 2003, Institute of Medicine 2004, Taylor 2004, Frombonne 2006, Thompson 2007, Schechter 2008 or Price 2010 is intellectually dishonest. And engaging in tooth-fairy science

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

List #46 reads "Detection of RNA of Mumps Virus during an Outbreak in a Population with a High Level of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine Coverage http://jcm.asm.org/content/46/3/1101.long,"which resolves to Bitsko RH, Cortese MM, Dayan GH, Rota PA, Lowe L Iversen SC, Bellini WJ Detection of RNA of Mumps Virus during an Outbreak in a Population with a High Level of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine Coverage Journal of Clinical Microbiology Mar 2008, 46 (3) 1101-1103; DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01803-07. This is actually a sound paper on mumps transmission, especially among completely vaccinated individuals, using an outbreak to learn more about how mumps behaves in the body of the infected. However, it has nothing to do with autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 9/56. .

Link #47 reads "A case series of children with apparent mercury toxic encephalopathies manifesting with clinical symptoms of regressive autistic disorders. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17454560." This is the same as Link #9, above. Very sloppy list compilation.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 10/56. .

List #48 reads "Aluminum in the central nervous system (CNS): toxicity in humans and animals, vaccine adjuvants, and autoimmunity. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23609067." This resolves to Shaw CA, Tomljenovic L.Aluminum in the central nervous system (CNS): toxicity in humans and animals, vaccine adjuvants, and autoimmunity.Aluminum in the central nervous system (CNS): toxicity in humans and animals, vaccine adjuvants, and autoimmunity. Immunol Res. 2013 Jul;56(2-3):304-16. doi: 10.1007/s12026-013-8403-1. This appears to be a review of themes in their own work. The team of Shaw and Tomljenovic's work has been widely criticized. See for example WHO, paper retractions, qnd a list of critiques. This is an unreliable paper.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 10/56. .

Link #49 reads "Unvaccinated Children are Healthier" http://www.mednat.org/vaccini/dannivacc_study.pdf. It's a pdf of an opinion article, reporting on a self-survey by anti-vaccinationists in New Zealand. None of the health findings were validated from medical reports. It was and is a silly piece of tosh, and the person who compiled this list should be ashamed of including it.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it is not a paper. It was more a less a popularity poll. It does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 10/56. .

Link #50 reads "Self-Organized Criticality Theory of Autoimmunity http://www.plosone.org/.../10.1371/journal.pone.0008382". This resolves to Tsumiyama K, Miyazaki Y, Shiozawa S. Self-organized criticality theory of autoimmunity. PLoS One. 2009 Dec 31;4(12):e8382. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008382."Repeated immunization with antigen causes systemic autoimmunity in mice" . This paper has nothing to do with autism, and may have no sound science.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 10/56. .

Link #51 reads "Combination MMRV vaccine linked with 2-fold risk of seizures http://www.eurekalert.org/pub.../2010-06/kp-cmv062310.php". This was a press release on a new finding that the MMRV vaccine may increase febrile seizures when used for the first dose at 12-18 months. Febrile seizures are common, almost always self-limiting, and have nothing to do with autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does no. It wasn't a paper, it was a press release, on an issue having nothing to do with autism..
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 10/56. .

Link #52 reads "Impact of environmental factors on the prevalence of autistic disorder after 1979 http://www.ms.academicjournals.org/.../article1409245960" which resolves to Deisher, T. A., Doan, N. V., Omaiye, A., Koyama, K. & Bwabye, S. (2014). Impact of environmental factors on the prevalence of autistic disorder after 1979. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, 6(9), 271-286. William M. Briggs, a statistician, reviewed this paper and found it to be severely lacking; the statistics it used are garbage. Mark Chu-Carrol, a mathematician, reviewed the paper and found the analysis to be garbage. This was not surprising, as Deisher's previous work was severely flawed.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 10/56. .

Link #53 reads "Increased risk of noninfluenza respiratory virus infections associated with receipt of inactivated influenza vaccine. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22423139," which resolves to Cowling BJ, Fang VJ, Nishiura H, Chan KH, Ng S, Ip DK, Chiu SS, Leung GM, Peiris JS.Increased risk of noninfluenza respiratory virus infections associated with receipt of inactivated influenza vaccine.Clin Infect Dis. 2012 Jun;54(12):1778-83. doi: 10.1093/cid/cis307. Epub 2012 Mar 15. It's hard to make a flu vaccine and our understanding of how influenza interacts with other respiratory infections is growing. This has absolutely nothing to do with autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 10/56. .

Link #54 reads "54 Effectiveness of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in influenza-related hospitalization in children: a case-control study. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22525386". This resolves to Joshi AY, Iyer VN, Hartz MF, Patel AM, Li JT.Effectiveness of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in influenza-related hospitalization in children: a case-control study. Allergy Asthma Proc. 2012 Mar-Apr;33(2):e23-7. doi: 10.2500/aap.2012.33.3513.. Patients at the Mayo Clinic who had asthma and received the flu vaccine were more likely to be hospitalized. This is a puzzling finding that needs more investigation through the Vaccine Safety Datalink (The Mayo Clinic is not a part of the VSD) but has absolutely nothing to do with autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 10/56. .

Link #55 reads "Speciation of methyl- and ethyl-mercury in hair of breastfed infants acutely exposed to thimerosal-containing vaccines. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21575620". This resolves to Dórea JG, Bezerra VL, Fajon V, Horvat M. Speciation of methyl- and ethyl-mercury in hair of breastfed infants acutely exposed to thimerosal-containing vaccines. Clin Chim Acta. 2011 Aug 17;412(17-18):1563-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2011.05.003. Epub 2011 May 7. This study looked at 20 babies who were exclusively breastfed who had received known quantities of thimerosal-containing vaccines (ethyl mercury), and known quantities of other mercury exposure (such as fish in the mothers' diets, methyl mercury), and found that ethyl mercury is expressed fairly accurately in hair. This is useful for further study of infant mercury exposure, but has nothing to do with autism

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 10/56. .

Link #56 reads "Comparison of VAERS fetal-loss reports during three consecutive influenza seasons http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3888271/" which resolves to Goldman GS Comparison of VAERS fetal-loss reports during three consecutive influenza seasons Hum Exp Toxicol. 2013 May; 32(5): 464–475. Another junk Gary Goldman VAERS exploitation paper. David Gorski MD gives this paper a close read and concludes "The bottom line is that Goldman’s “study” is an absolutely atrocious bit of egregious antivaccine nonsense designed to frighten pregnant women into refusing the flu vaccine." This paper has nothing to do with autism.

Does this paper "show vaccines may cause Autism? No, it does not.
Evalution: ratio of papers on this list having a Geier as a co-author: 10/56. .

Here are images of the complete list:

Part 1/3 (I had to break them into pieces), taken from a chiropractor's anti-vaccine Facebook Page. . All images enlarge if clicked.

Part 2/3

Part 3/3

Footnote:

Who is Marcella Piper-Terry? She is most notorious for claiming that "coerced vaccination is medical rape", which David Gorski discusses in depth. Dr. Gorski revisits Piper-Terry's anti-vaccine ideology in 2016.

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