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It’s old news that vaccines don’t cause autism. But a major new study aims to refute skeptics again

It's old news that vaccines don't cause autism. Can a massive study change minds this time?
A nurse prepares an injection of the MMR vaccine.

A massive new study from Denmark found no association between being vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella and developing autism.

In science and public health circles, that issue has long since been considered settled, with multiple studies over many years discounting the findings of a small study published more than 20 years ago that has since been expunged from the medical literature.

But the size of this study — involving 657,461 Danish children born between 1999 and 2010 — should, in theory, bolster the argument

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