斯坦福学者Andrew Huberman在其科学主题播客中，邀请Dr. Karen Parker探讨自闭症。节目中，Huberman对疫苗与自闭症的关系持开放态度，提出可能存在疫苗预存剂的问题，同时提及疫苗与自闭症的潜在联系可能未来会有新数据支持。节目未支持任何反疫苗言论，而是呈现了双方观点。

🧠Huberman在其播客中邀请Dr. Karen Parker讨论自闭症，强调Wakefield的研究已被驳斥，且目前研究共识认为疫苗与自闭症无关联。

🔍Huberman提出可能存在疫苗预存剂的问题，以及疫苗数量过多的问题，暗示这些问题可能被'取消文化'所忽视。

🧪Huberman对COVID疫苗的态度谨慎，他在疫情期间避免讨论该话题，并在节目中提出了对蓝牙耳机、防晒霜等日常用品的潜在危险看法。

💊节目还涉及了Huberman对补充剂如AG1的推崇，以及对RFK Jnr和Joe Rogan等人物的赞扬，引发了对Huberman观点的进一步质疑。

Andrew Huberman, Stanford academic and host of a science-themed podcast, recently released an episode on Autism with guest Dr. Karen Parker. Considering the prevalence of misinformation about vaccines and autism and this episode being promoted as providing an overview of the topic, we were interested to see how the topic would be covered. In part, this interest was because of Huberman's strategic choice to avoid any discussion, let alone any recommendation, of COVID vaccines during the pandemic. The topic came up 2 hours and 43 minutes into the episode and lasted for around 10 minutes.

What we found was interesting and we think deserving of a mini-decoding. What you will not find here is any endorsement of lurid anti-vax claims or cheers for Andrew Wakefield. Indeed, Huberman notes that Wakefield's research was debunked, while his guest Dr. Parker explains the consensus view amongst researchers that there is no evidence of a link. What you will find: Huberman readily engaging in ‘both sides’ hedging: maybe Wakefield’s research helped locate real issues with preservatives, maybe there are too many childhood vaccines (some clinicians 'in private' recommend none), maybe new data will come out later that reveals a link between autism and vaccines. There certainly are a lot of questions and could it be that 'cancel culture' is the real problem here rather than the existence of a very influential anti-vaccine movement?

Let's just say, when you pair this with Huberman's comments on the potential dangers of Bluetooth headphones/sunscreen, the potential benefits for negative ion bathing and grounding, the lab leak origins of COVID, endorsement of AG1 and a host of other supplements, and fawning over figures like RFK Jnr and Joe Rogan... we have some questions of our own.

Links

Huberman Lab 154: Dr. Karen Parker- The Causes & Treatments for AutismVaccine Schedules from the 1940s to 2019BMJ: How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixedJonathan Jarry: Andrew Huberman Has Supplements on the BrainHuberman's comments on Instagram about RFK Jnr