26/06/2023
As with other medical conspiracy theories, those involving monosodium glutamate are probably impossible to disprove or dispel. We have seen this with the vaccine-autism myth. This alleged link comes from a case series published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. This study had many shortcomings, and a rebuttal was later published in the journal (a rare occurrence). A later study found that some of the children described in the study did not have autism, and many had symptoms before receiving the vaccines. The dates have been changed, as have the lab results, the study was commissioned and funded by a group planning a lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers. The editors of the BMJ magazine called the whole thing a "scam".