[5] The Committee wrote: "The core argument made in these studies is based on ecological comparisons of aluminium content in vaccines and rates of autism spectrum disorders in several countries.
The University of British Columbia and numerous experts said there is no problem with the source of this funding, noting that many researchers accept money from pharmaceutical companies and other entities.
[7] In October 2017, Shaw and his colleague, Lucija Tomljenovic, announced that they were retracting a paper they had co-authored in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, claiming to find that aluminum in vaccines caused symptoms "consistent with those in autism" in mice, after multiple other researchers had criticized the underlying data as invalid or falsified.
[9] Shaw was on the Scientific Advisory Board of the anti-vaccine Children's Medical Safety Research Institute,[10] founded and funded by Claire Dwoskin.
Dwoskin has used Shaw's studies, conducted at the University of British Columbia, as supposed evidence that vaccines cause autism.