The IOM's eighth and final immunization-safety report: epidemiological evidence favors rejection of causal relationships between both MMR vaccine and thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism. The committee found the Geier analyses 'serious methodological flaws… uninterpretable' and the Wakefield case series 'uninformative with respect to causality.'
The committee concludes that the body of epidemiological evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. The committee also concludes that the body of epidemiological evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.
Executive Summary, p. 6
The IOM's eighth and final immunization-safety report: epidemiological evidence favors rejection of causal relationships between both MMR vaccine and thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism. The committee found the Geier analyses 'serious methodological flaws… uninterpretable' and the Wakefield case series 'uninformative with respect to causality.' Federally commissioned but published by the National Academies (copyrighted).