I happened to run across this Study from last year: Maternal Influenza A(H1N1) Immunization During Pregnancy and Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Offspring : A Cohort Study and thought it worth highlighting. The anti-vaccine movement has been good at moving goalposts and one of their lines in recent years has been that vaccines are dangerous for Pregnant Women. One line of “logic” holds that as mercury was phased out of vaccines, the influenza vaccine was given to pregnant women. Thus, we are told by anti-vaccine activists, explains why there was never their predicted drop in autism rates as thimerosal was phased out of vaccines.

The conclusion of the study is one line:

This large cohort study found no association between maternal H1N1 vaccination during pregnancy and risk for ASD in the offspring.

Will this convince the remaining anti-vaccine activists? Of course not. Is this surprising? No.

But it is worth noting another study which debunks their dangerous misinformation.

By Matt Carey