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Why you (hopefully) won’t hear claims that the MMR vaccine protects against autism

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: September 7, 2011
Category: Autism, Vaccines | Tagged causation, CDC, correlation, Matt Carey, MMR, New Jersey | 9 Comments
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