Briefly summarize the rise in autism rates that occurred in the 1990s.

Formatting
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Length: 2 pages, excluding title page and
references.
Assignment
1) Read
these two articles:
Do
Vaccines Cause Autism?
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/do-vaccines-cause-autism
The Autism-Vaccine Myth
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/autism-vaccine-myth/
2) Write
a 2-page reflection that addresses the following –
· Briefly
summarize the rise in autism rates that occurred in the 1990s.
· Explain
the role of Andrew Wakefield, MD in the Lancet
study
o
What was this research initially supposed
to analyze?
o
What research errors did he commit?
o
What unethical practices did he engage in?
· The
sample size for Lancet study was 12.
What is wrong with this?
· This
study was published in 1998 and wasn’t retracted until 2010. Why did it take so
long? How were the results disproved?
· Why
has this myth persisted?
· What
can researchers and the population-at-large learn from the scandal caused by
Mr. Wakefield?

please use these two links
Do
Vaccines Cause Autism?
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/do-vaccines-cause-autism
The Autism-Vaccine Myth
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/autism-vaccine-myth/

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