{"id":225577,"date":"2025-11-21T05:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/an-autism-epidemic"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:09:30","slug":"an-autism-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/an-autism-epidemic","title":{"rendered":"An Autism Epidemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-autism-epidemic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CDC website now says: \u201cThe claim \u2018vaccines do not cause autism\u2019 is not an evidence-based claim\u2026\u201d Psychologist David Myers from Hope College summarizes the relevant evidence.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>You are an educated reader, so I know that you know that vaccines do not cause autism. However, you probably have also read headlines such as the recent U.S. Health and Human Services release, \u201cAutism Epidemic Runs Rampant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDC website now says: \u201cThe claim \u2018vaccines do not cause autism\u2019 is not an evidence-based claim\u2026\u201d Psychologist David Myers from Hope College summarizes the relevant evidence. You are an educated reader, so I know that you know that vaccines do not cause autism. However, you probably have also read headlines such as the recent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}