Antivaccine activists fund a study to show vaccines cause autism. It backfires spectacularly
One of the arguments for studies like this is that negative studies will change minds. They will not. They might give some reassurance to parents who were already open to being reassured about vaccines, but they have zero effect on people like Sallie Bernard and Lynn Redwood. They are true believers, and if a study is negative, even one that they funded, it must be because there was incompetence or scientific fraud. sciencebasedmedicine.org