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Senate HELP hearing spotlights competing statements about vaccines and autism
Summary
At a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing, two speakers traded citations and assertions about whether vaccines cause autism, with one citing an American Medical Association statement denying a link and the other urging more study while saying autism appears to be rising.
At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, two participants debated whether vaccines are linked to autism, citing conflicting public statements and scientific claims.
Unidentified Speaker 1 opened the exchange by citing the American Medical Association, saying the organization — which the speaker described as representing "over 270,000 doctors" — wrote in November that "an abundance of evidence from decades of scientific studies shows no link between vaccines and autism." The same speaker…
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