{"id":62476,"date":"2025-11-12T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62476"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:36:16","slug":"the-plos-biology-journal-editors-claim-vaccines-dont-cause-autism-and-we-should-not-do-a-proper-study-to-find-out-if-this-is-true-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62476","title":{"rendered":"The PLOS Biology journal editors claim vaccines don&#8217;t cause autism and we should NOT do a proper study to find out if this is true or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLOS, the Public Library of Science, Biology editors declared in April that vaccines don&#8217;t cause autism. Instead of calling for a proper study, they said we should stop asking questions. \u201cAs does the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism, which is known to fuel societal concern [4].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/stevekirsch\/p\/the-plos-biology-journal-editors\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/stevekirsch\/p\/the-plos-biology-journal-editors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLOS, the Public Library of Science, Biology editors declared in April that vaccines don&#8217;t cause autism. Instead of calling for a proper study, they said we should stop asking questions. \u201cAs does the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism, which is known to fuel societal concern [4].\u201d Finish reading: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The PLOS Biology journal editors claim vaccines don&#8217;t cause autism and we should NOT do a proper study to find out if this is true or not&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62477,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62476\/revisions\/62477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}