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Written and Illustrated by Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham
Animated by Jorge Cham and Meg Rosenburg
Narration by Meg Rosenburg
Comic originally published in Scientific American Mind
References:
Richard A. Stein. (2011) Vaccination: A Public Health Intervention That Changed History & Is Changing with History. The American Biology Teacher 73:9, 513-519 bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1525/abt.2011.73.9.3 (abstract)
Poland and Jacobson, "The Age Old Struggle against the Antivaccinationists", nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1010594
G. A. Poland. (2011) MMR Vaccine and Autism: Vaccine Nihilism and Postmodern Science. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 86:9, 869-871 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257990
Dobson, R (2003). Media misled the public over the MMR vaccine. BMJ. 326(7399): 1107. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1150987
Uno Y, Uchiyama T, Kurosawa M, Aleksic B, Ozaki N. (2012) The combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines and the total number of vaccines are not associated with development of autism spectrum disorder: the first case-control study in Asia. Vaccine. 30(28):4292-8. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22521285
Fleck, F. (2004) MMR Controversy raises questions over publication ethics. Bulletin of the World Health organization 82 (4): 311-12. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585965/pdf/15296362.pdf
Ahearn,WH (2010).What Every Behavior Analyst Should Know About the "MMR Causes Autism" Hypothesis. Behav Anal Pract. Spring; 3(1): 46--50. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004684
Perry, DM (2013). Destabilizing the Jenny McCarthy public health industrial complex. theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/destabilizing-the-jenny-mccarthy-public-health-industrial-complex/277695 The Atlantic, July 11 2013.
Williams, ME (2011) Jenny McCarthy's autism fight grows more misguided. salon.com/2011/01/06/jenny_mccarthy_autism_debate
Institute of Medicine (US) Immunization Safety Review Committee (2004). Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US). ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25344
List of 25 studies failing to support MMR/autism link. immunize.org/catg.d/p4026.pdf
Hyman, SL (2013) New DSM-5 includes changes to autism criteria. American Academy of Pediatrics News. aapnews.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/06/04/aapnews.20130604-1
Deer, B. (2011) How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed
BMJ 342:c5347 bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full
Deer, B. Exposed: Andrew Wakefield
and the MMR-autism fraud. briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm
Our new PODCAST: link.podtrac.com/SciStuff_PHD_Comics
ORDER our new book: tinyurl.com/OutMindBook
Should you get vaccinated? Find out how vaccines work to protect the population and what can happen when celebrities get in the way of Science.
Subscribe to PHD TV: youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=phdcomics
More at: phdcomics.com/tv
Written and Illustrated by Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham
Animated by Jorge Cham and Meg Rosenburg
Narration by Meg Rosenburg
Comic originally published in Scientific American Mind
References:
Richard A. Stein. (2011) Vaccination: A Public Health Intervention That Changed History & Is Changing with History. The American Biology Teacher 73:9, 513-519 bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1525/abt.2011.73.9.3 (abstract)
Poland and Jacobson, "The Age Old Struggle against the Antivaccinationists", nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1010594
G. A. Poland. (2011) MMR Vaccine and Autism: Vaccine Nihilism and Postmodern Science. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 86:9, 869-871 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257990
Dobson, R (2003). Media misled the public over the MMR vaccine. BMJ. 326(7399): 1107. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1150987
Uno Y, Uchiyama T, Kurosawa M, Aleksic B, Ozaki N. (2012) The combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines and the total number of vaccines are not associated with development of autism spectrum disorder: the first case-control study in Asia. Vaccine. 30(28):4292-8. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22521285
Fleck, F. (2004) MMR Controversy raises questions over publication ethics. Bulletin of the World Health organization 82 (4): 311-12. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585965/pdf/15296362.pdf
Ahearn,WH (2010).What Every Behavior Analyst Should Know About the "MMR Causes Autism" Hypothesis. Behav Anal Pract. Spring; 3(1): 46--50. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004684
Perry, DM (2013). Destabilizing the Jenny McCarthy public health industrial complex. theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/destabilizing-the-jenny-mccarthy-public-health-industrial-complex/277695 The Atlantic, July 11 2013.
Williams, ME (2011) Jenny McCarthy's autism fight grows more misguided. salon.com/2011/01/06/jenny_mccarthy_autism_debate
Institute of Medicine (US) Immunization Safety Review Committee (2004). Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US). ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25344
List of 25 studies failing to support MMR/autism link. immunize.org/catg.d/p4026.pdf
Hyman, SL (2013) New DSM-5 includes changes to autism criteria. American Academy of Pediatrics News. aapnews.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/06/04/aapnews.20130604-1
Deer, B. (2011) How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed
BMJ 342:c5347 bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full
Deer, B. Exposed: Andrew Wakefield
and the MMR-autism fraud. briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm
