“A 2004 “study discovered that African-American boys who receive the MMR vaccine ‘on-time’ by the age of 3 are 3.36 times more likely to be diagnosed with severe autism as Black boys who waited until they were older.”
What FactCheck.org found
That’s not what the study found. That’s what a purported reanalysis of the data claimed to find a decade later and that paper was retracted.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Children's Health Defense (Anti-vaccination organization) made this claim around 12 March 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 March 2021. Its rating was “Not What Study Found”.
Children's Health Defense has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- medicalracism.childrenshealthdefense.orghttps://medicalracism.childrenshealthdefense.org/medical-racism-the-new-apartheid/
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