Posted on 06/17/2006 8:59:29 AM PDT by Alama
Andrew Wakefield, the doctor behind the scare over a potential link between the MMR jab and autism in children, is to face four charges relating to unprofessional conduct at the General Medical Council, it is reported today...
Following the publication of a research paper in the Lancet by Mr Wakefield and colleagues in February 1998 - which suggested a tentative link between the immunisation at the age of 18 months, a bowel disorder called Crohn's disease, and autism - many parents became anxious over the safety of the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine....
At the press conference to launch the paper, Mr Wakefield had parted company with his colleagues to say that, in his opinion, single jabs might be safer than the three-in-one MMR combination. The take-up of MMR slumped and is still low in some parts, especially areas of London. Public health experts have warned that measles outbreaks are possible, in which some children may be damaged and even die. The numbers of cases of mumps has risen. A top-level inquiry commissioned by the Medical Research Council examined Mr Wakefield's findings, and epidemiological studies were commissioned which found that children given the MMR vaccine were no more likely to become autistic than those who were not...
In 2004 it was alleged that Mr Wakefield had had an undeclared conflict of interest at the time he wrote the Lancet paper: having been paid £55,000 by the Legal Aid Board to assess whether some of the children who featured in his research paper might have a case to sue for vaccine damage.
The Lancet retracted part of the article, and the GMC began an investigation....
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Forgot the link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1795595,00.html
-ccm
True...
Wonder if Imus will ever see this artical?
I couldn't help thinking of Imus as well. The dems have been yelling about the Bush Admisintration ignoring science. It seems to me that the dems just ignore the science that they don't like, and make up the science that they need to advance their agenda.
That's because the Democrats are the bought and paid-for whores of the dirty filthy lawyer scum, who make billions of dollars suing innocent doctors and pharmaceutical companies on the basis of flimsy and falsified evidence like this.
We need tort reform, serious hard core reform, that will deprive half of all lawyers of their jobs, and The Democrats of a third or more of their hard money donations.
-ccm
Thanks for the ping. Mrs. Imus, you got esplainin to do.
Who is Ms Imus?
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