A Doctor’s self-serving medical fraud which caused countless illnesses and deaths

I’ll try to ask them for more info the next time I get a chance. I really don’t have any idea about ages for vaccinations now. I was born in ‘44 and looking back it seems as if I were always getting some kind of vaccination from age six onward. The Salk polio vaccine was given to all of us at school, same with Smallpox and I can’t remember what else, there was a tiny clinic that we used to walk to about two hundred yards from the school. I went straight from high school into the Navy and was given so many shots just before and just after my eighteenth birthday that I felt like a pin cushion. I couldn’t begin to recall what those all were. I don’t know if any of them affected my mental functioning, I don’t recall ever being normal to begin with. My company commander in boot camp assured all of us that we were idiots and would never have sense enough to pour water out of a boot so we might as well learn to live with that condition.

Interesting that MEDICAL LICENSING BOARDS have stripped Wakefiled of his right to practice. His article was pilled for fraud and all you can muster is more of the same nonsense for the same discredited sources (and it took you a long time to try and come up with that one).

Why is your first response that I must work for a pharma company??? Never have and never will...but because I am not qualified to do so not because i think they are bad.

IF autism were the result of vaccination THEN we should have seen millions of cases ever since the 30s and in every nation in the world. The fact that we don’t is telling. Moreover the pointed to culprit is always thimerasol....which IF true THEN even more children should have autism since merthiolate is just another name for that ingredient and during the 30s,40s,50s, and 60s, it was ROUTINELY used on cuts and scrapes and lacerations.

Give up. You don’t know science you know anecdotes.

Are you aware that Wakefield had a whopping TWELVE (that’s right 12) cases in his study. Puhleeeeze. Don’t bother to respond. You are so out of your depth.

Pick up your phone Alex wants to chat

“STUDIES ON THE ETIOLOGY OF AUTISM
Studies have focused on the genetics of autism and the timing of the first symptoms of autism.

Genetics of autism
One of the best ways to determine whether a particular disease or syndrome is genetic is to examine the incidence in identical (monozygotic) and fraternal (dizygotic) twins. Using a strict definition of autism, when one twin has autism, 60% of monozygotic and 0% of dizygotic twins have autism. Using a broader definition of autism (i.e. autistic spectrum disorder), when
one twin has autism, approximately 92% of monozygotic and 10% of dizygotic twins have autism. (7,8) Therefore, autism clearly has a genetic basis.

Timing of development of autism
Autism symptoms are present before 1 year of age
Perhaps the best data examining when symptoms of autism are first evident are the “home-movie studies”. These studies took advantage of the fact that many parents take movies of their children during their first birthday (before they have received the MMR vaccine). Home movies from children who were eventually diagnosed with autism and those who were not diagnosed with autism were shown to blinded neurodevelopmental specialists. Investigators were, with a very high degree of accuracy, able to separate autistic from non-autistic children at one year of age.(9-13) These studies found that subtle symptoms of autism are present earlier than some parents had suspected, and that receipt of the MMR vaccine did not precede the first symptoms of autism.
Autism symptoms are present before 4 months of age
Other investigators extended the home-movie studies of one-year-old children to include videotapes of children taken at 2-3 months of age. Using a sophisticated movement analysis, videos from children eventually diagnosed with autism or not diagnosed with autism were coded and evaluated for their capacity to predict autism. Children who were eventually diagnosed with autism were predicted from movies taken in early infancy.(14) This study supported the hypothesis that very subtle symptoms of autism are present in early infancy and argue strongly against vaccines as a cause of autism.
Evidence that autism occurs in utero
Toxic or viral insults in utero as well as certain central nervous system disorders are associated with an increase in the incidence of autism. For example, children exposed to thalidomide during the first or early second trimester were found to have an increased incidence of autism.(15) However, autism occurred in children with ear, but not arm or leg, abnormalities. Because arms and legs develop after 24 weeks gestation, the risk period for autism following receipt of thalidomide must be before 24 weeks gestation. In support of this finding, Rodier and colleagues(16) found
evidence for structural brainstem abnormalities in children with autism. These abnormalities could only have occurred during brainstem development in utero. Similarly, children with congenital rubella syndrome are at increased risk for development of autism.(17-23) Risk is associated with exposure to rubella prenatally, but not postnatally.
Finally, children with fragile X syndrome or tuberous sclerosis are also at increased risk of developing autism. Taken together, these findings indicate that autism is likely due to abnormalities of the central nervous system that occur in utero.

SUMMING UP
Studies of 1)the genetics of autism, the timing of the first symptoms of autism (home-movie studies), 3)the relationship between autism and the receipt of the MMR vaccine, 4)the histopathology of the central nervous system of children with autism, and 5)thalidomide, natural rubella infection, fragile X syndrome, and tuberous sclerosis all support the fact
that autism occurs during development of teh central nervous system early in utero.

Unfortunately, for parents who will someday bear children diagnosed with autism, the controversy surrounding vaccines has diverted attention and resources away from a number of promising leads. “

From the American Association of Pediatricians at http://www2.aap.org/immunization/families/autismwakefield.html

“Longstanding concerns over how Wakefield reached his conclusions escalated in January of last year with the first findings from the GMC panel, which ruled that key elements of the Lancet paper were intentionally dishonest. And in the same month, the mystery over his results deepened when an expert panel published a consensus statement in Pediatrics stating that no gastrointestinal disturbance specific to autism had been established. “Other study-design limitations in these reports included flawed control groups, lack of validated and standardized definitions, and speculative interpretation of results,” the authors said with regard to Wakefield’s papers.”23

He did not act alone, however, and the new information has raised questions not only for pathologists. Clinicians, led by John Walker-Smith, the Royal Free’s professor of paediatric gastroenterology, who was struck off with Wakefield last year and is appealing this decision, initially screened the children using a panel of blood tests for inflammation that could have helped avoid unnecessary colonoscopies.24

But when these tests gave normal results, he set them aside, later allowing their omission from the Lancet. And despite these findings, the study’s developmentally challenged patients, aged between 3 and 9, were brought to the hospital for ileocolonoscopy. Davies’s team’s biopsy results were then also found to be largely normal, but these too were set aside and not disclosed.”

So you see your ‘source’ provider was part of Wakefield’s fraud and was also stripped of his license.

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