Talk:Vaccines and autism

Incorrect information
The article states "Vaccine overload became popular after the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program accepted the case of nine year old Hannah Poling. Hannah had encephalopathy putting her on the autism spectrum disorder, which was believed to have worsened after getting multiple vaccines at nineteen months old.[8] There have been multiple cases reported similar to this one, which led to the belief that vaccine overload caused autism. However, scientific studies show that vaccines do not overwhelm the immune system".

However, there is a direct and succinct problem with this which needs to be addressed (though I'm not sure exactly what the best way of accomplishing this would be), in that the language is somewhat misleading, in that Encephalopathy is a direct and outright contraindication to the administration of at least one vaccine, which are supported by the following:

Kroger A, Atkinson W, Pickering L. General immunization practices. In: Plotkin S, Orenstein W, Offit P, eds. Vaccines. 6th ed. China: Elsevier Saunders; 2013:88-111.

CDC. Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis: recommendations for vaccine use and other preventive measures. Recommendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP). MMWR Recomm Rep. 1991;40(RR-10):1-28.

The input and ideas of others would be greatly appreciated on the matter. 98.178.191.34 (talk) 20:17, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Primary source
Kennedy's chairmanship of antivax grifters Children's Health Defense is cited to the group's own website. It should be trivially easy to replace this with a reality-based source, and we absolutely should do that because CHD's website is a cesspit and we should not be sending readers there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.20.240.157 (talk) 15:11, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Valjean (talk) 16:46, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

would the fact that autistic adults are more likely to be unvaccinated be relevant
I was working on the discrimination against autistic people wikipedia page and in a study on healthcare disparities it stated autistic adults were less likely to have received a tetanus vaccine - is this relevant to this page? it strikes me as somewhat ironic that there is a relationship in that autistic people are less likely to have been vaccinated, the opposite of what believers in the debunked claims in this article would think. Thanks Feralcateater000 (talk) 16:45, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

French article featured
I noticed that the French article on the same topic is a featured article, and translating from it may be useful. I won't add a template because templates are ugly and I'm not sure if translating from the French article is useful. FunLater (talk) 00:16, 7 October 2023 (UTC)