Posted on 02/08/2009 7:53:58 AM PST by jalisco555
THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
Confidential medical documents and interviews with witnesses have established that Andrew Wakefield manipulated patients’ data, which triggered fears that the MMR triple vaccine to protect against measles, mumps and rubella was linked to the condition.
The research was published in February 1998 in an article in The Lancet medical journal. It claimed that the families of eight out of 12 children attending a routine clinic at the hospital had blamed MMR for their autism, and said that problems came on within days of the jab. The team also claimed to have discovered a new inflammatory bowel disease underlying the children’s conditions.
However, our investigation, confirmed by evidence presented to the General Medical Council (GMC), reveals that: In most of the 12 cases, the children’s ailments as described in The Lancet were different from their hospital and GP records. Although the research paper claimed that problems came on within days of the jab, in only one case did medical records suggest this was true, and in many of the cases medical concerns had been raised before the children were vaccinated. Hospital pathologists, looking for inflammatory bowel disease, reported in the majority of cases that the gut was normal. This was then reviewed and the Lancet paper showed them as abnormal.
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If everyone failed to give two hoots about what well performed studies said we'd still be bleeding sick people in order to balance the humors.
No, because the mercury is not NECESSARY. It is a preservant. Use a preservant that doesn’t require injecting children with a poison. Problem solved.
Vaccines no longer contain mercury. However, the mercury that was in older vaccines was harmless.
Bingo. And the failiure to distuingish between “educational autism” and “medical austim.” Educational autism brings in booku dollars to the special ed department. And it doesn’t need a dr’s diagnosis. While I worked in special ed, their was an overflow of educationally autistic children. All were left handed boys.
All five of my sons could be “diagnosed” as “autism spectrum” under the criteria our local school system uses. They’re peculiar, and sometimes annoying.
most vaccines don’t have mercury anymore. My ped’s office has been mercury free for a decade. Now if we can just get rid of the aluminum.....
Believe it or not he was on Obama's short list to head the EPA.
OK, Mr. Knowitall,
Table salt has chlorine in it. Should we not give kids salt?
I’m kind of restless and fidgety by nature and am easily bored. I’m certain that if I were in public school today I would be diagnosed with ADHD.
Quite true. And since we don't have reliable statistics on autism incidence, or even a fixed definition for the condition, all statistical analysis is bogus from the get-go.
My husband once read a book about ADD and tried to convice me that he had it. I told him that if he could function adequately at work (as demonstrated by the fact that he was still employed) he could darn well function adequately at home!
YEs, most in the US don’t have mercury. In the UK they still use the mercury.
In the same period in which the US stopped using it, the US autism instance went down, the UK’s did not. Might be coincedence, but that’s the data.
LOL, yeah, I think my wife would react the same way if I tried that on her.
“the mercury that was in older vaccines was harmless”
maybe it was. but since it’s the preservative and not the active ingredient, we can stay on the safe side and use a different preservative
I agree about definition creep. It has made it appear to be grow rapidly.
My family has a history of what I think in Asperger’s Syndrone, which is lumped with Autism in the “Spectrum”.
It is hereditary, is most common in males (90%), and is debilitating. Doctors do not understand it, and treatment is very ineffective.
I am convinced it is an autoimmune disorder at root cause.
Texas Fossil
Which we've done in this case. The danger is in letting theoretical harm deter us from actions have proven good.
It seems that many “conditions” simply reflect the fact that the institutional-school environment is far from ideal for a majority of children.
Have your husband read this article:
Crypto Sensitivity Syndrome
http://www.backlash.com/content/disab/2003/rvm1203.html
The author is not a leftie, hates what psychiatry has done to this disorder, and functions well also.
I have spent 15 years trying to find what is causing my son’s problems. He is very much like the author.
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