https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.767A2NQ

https://archive.is/W7iv8

Fact checking the fact checkers

This article is not “fact checking”…

its propaganda, and heres why…

FTA:

The lead author of the paper said … subsequent studies have consistently shown the neurological and developmental disorder is not caused by the MMR shot.

notice how he is very careful with his words?

“studies have shown” is bullshit, because “studies” are NOT evidence, and only “show” what you want them to “show”

So, studies that “show” what you want them to “show”, get publicized,

While studies that DO NOT show what you want them to show, DO NOT get publicized…

they just start off with “muh STUDIES show”, and hope that you just immediately accept their narrative frame, which is,

“NOT ONLY SHALL STUDIES BE CONSIDERED EVIDENCE,

BUT STUDIES SHALL BE CONSIDERED TO BE THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE FORM OF EVIDENCE

and then he limits his statement by saying

“…by the MMR shot”

im sure if he was defend himself here, that he would claim that the reason he limited his statement by saying the MMR shot was because that’s all he could conclusively say from his study because his study only looked at the MMR shot

And that would technically be true…BUT

The way that they phrase this deceptively implies that there is no link between ANY vaccine and autism

Later in the AFP “fact check”, the AFP propagandists try to develop a narrative about the history of the vaccine autism debate, where they cherry-pick certain studies, and omit other studies, to develop their lying narratives

The research idea and concept were mine," Kreesten Madsen, the study's lead author, told AFP in a September 19 email

Madsen said Thorsen was not central to the project and never had access to its data, but did provide a connection to the CDC, one of several funders for the work.

He said he has "full confidence" in the article as it was written and welcomes others to repeat the study with an even larger dataset.

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) also said it “did not find” any issues with the paper, despite Thorsen's indictment.

The study's findings remain valid and are consistent with extensive subsequent research showing no link between MMR vaccination and autism," a spokesperson for NEJM said in a September 20 email.

Similarly, David Mandell, director of the Penn Center for Mental Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, told AFP he reviewed the paper's methodology

"The methods are highly consistent with what we think about as high-quality science," he said September 22.

"So yes, bring him to justice for stealing grant money from the CDC. But let's not confuse that with the validity of the science that this group and many other groups have done."

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Ok, also very subtle narrative framing here

“high quality science” sounds impressive,

if you “believe in” science

come on bro… trust the science bro…

the very concept of “studies” is 100% bullshit, and we can discuss why in the comments below

so its deliciously ironic that he claims the methods are highly consistent with what we think about as high-quality “science”

because “b -b-but muh studies” are the absolute state of vaccine “science” today, in 2025

the reason they instantly direct your attention to “muh studies”, is because thats literally ALL THEY HAVE for “evidence”

what other branch of science is based exclusively in “studies”?

I say it is high time we take a very close look at the entire presmise of “studies”

and ask ourselves if we should allow a handful of “sponsored scientists” to use “muh studies” to dictate the establishemnt version of reality to the rest of the world

No link between vaccines and ASD

…. CONTINUED IN COMMENTS BELOW…

"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of medicine

—Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine