• Question: do vaccines cause mental heath issues?

    Asked by anon-239089 to James, Hannah, Claire, Chris, binuraj, Alice on 13 Mar 2020.
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      Binuraj Menon answered on 13 Mar 2020:

      Hi city389sun,

      Very good question. There is no scientific evidence that vaccines cause mental health issues. In fact there are many studies conducted in this direction which all conclude no effect. Read more about it from the link below.

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4718347/

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      Hannah Blyth answered on 14 Mar 2020:

      Hello city389sun 🙂 I very much agree with Binuraj’s answer. The article Binuraj links to from 2015 is full of quite complicated language but concludes that the association between modern vaccinations and neurological disorders is an “urban myth”. I can find no reputable or more recent evidence that goes against this conclusion!

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      Chris Carlton answered on 24 Mar 2020:

      I think the suggestion they do is very much an example of a “spurious correlation” – two things which happen at the same time (vaccines and the discovering of mental health issues) are equated when there is no evidence that one causes the other…

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