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Britain bans doctor who linked autism to vaccine
Associated Press ^ | May 24,2010 | MARIA CHENG

Posted on 05/24/2010 8:44:47 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW

LONDON (AP) - Britain's top medical group on Monday banned a doctor whose research suggesting a link between a common vaccine and autism caused millions of parents worldwide to abandon the shot for measles, mumps and rubella.

Dr. Andrew Wakefield was the first to publish peer-reviewed research suggesting such a connection, even though the study was later widely discredited. The ruling by Britain's General Medical Council found him guilty of serious professional misconduct.

Wakefield, 53, then moved to the U.S. and set up an autism center in Texas, where he has a wide following, but faces similar skepticism from the medical community. The ruling in Britain only applies to his right to practice medicine in the U.K., not in other countries.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: autism; vaccines
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To: MrShoop

Look at what vaccines were introduced in 1996.


61 posted on 05/24/2010 10:39:53 AM PDT by WriteOn (Truth)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I can offer you all sorts of references that have nothing to do with the government. You, however, want to trust junk science and whatever conspiracies your imagination can fabricate. That’s your choice but these are not the kinds of decisions rational people make.


62 posted on 05/24/2010 10:42:09 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase
"They are mostly in poor countries"

Right!!! And This doctor didn't influence anyone in developing countries!!!


63 posted on 05/24/2010 10:42:44 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: DJ MacWoW
LOL! The noob has a far better grasp of the subject than you and all you can do is reply with scorn and ridicule? How Alinsky of you.

You're a prime candidate to believe the moon landing was faked. Are you also a truther?

64 posted on 05/24/2010 10:46:00 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

You have no basis for your insults other than the fact that I posted this article and I don’t trust government. Who is it that’s irrational?


65 posted on 05/24/2010 10:47:45 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Mase

Again with insults based on nothing more than I posted this article and I distrust government.


66 posted on 05/24/2010 10:48:44 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Again, nothing in the articles you linked to has anything to do with Andrew Wakefield and his shoddy study of 12 children that has been used to discredit all vaccines. No, I am not a doctor, and my name isn’t even Jimmy.


67 posted on 05/24/2010 10:51:06 AM PDT by drjimmy
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
Umm, so what? Whether he did or not has nothing to do with the fact that you believe these childhood diseases are "nothing."

Is it "nothing" because these diseases didn't affect you, fortunately, even though many thousands of less fortunate kids die from them around the world every year?

What happens when the idiots here choose not to vaccinate their kids and we have to once again deal with these diseases and the sickness and death they bring? Then will they be "something" to you then?

Grab a brain. Sheesh.

68 posted on 05/24/2010 10:52:09 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: drjimmy
No, I am not a doctor, and my name isn’t even Jimmy.

Aw nuts!

69 posted on 05/24/2010 10:52:46 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: drjimmy
Again, nothing in the articles you linked to has anything to do with Andrew Wakefield

I didn't say it did. I linked to them because of the info on a tainted vaccine. Not everything that's pushed on us is safe. Post 15 said" You do understand that mistakes are made and then covered up, right?

70 posted on 05/24/2010 10:55:40 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Your post #15 and the subsequent links and references showing no connection between simian virus 40 and the alleged increase in cancers. You don’t trust government? Great. But you think vaccines cause autism when there is absolutely no proof that they do. Not so great.


71 posted on 05/24/2010 10:55:59 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: This Just In

Do you know what a reference is? They’re at the bottom of the page. Indulge yourself. Would you rather I listed and linked each reference directly and separately? The result is the same.


72 posted on 05/24/2010 10:57:33 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase
But you think vaccines cause autism when there is absolutely no proof that they do.

Where did I say that?

73 posted on 05/24/2010 10:57:43 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: reaganairport

A heavy metal is a member of an ill-defined subset of elements that exhibit metallic properties, which would mainly include the transition metals, some metalloids, lanthanides, and actinides. Many different definitions have been proposed—some based on density, some on atomic number or atomic weight, and some on chemical properties or toxicity.[1] The term heavy metal has been called a “misinterpretation” in an IUPAC technical report due to the contradictory definitions and its lack of a “coherent scientific basis”. Wikipedia

Sorry, but I was alluding to the toxicity which occurs in the brain ...of course, some heavy metals are essential to the brain so I am missing your point...I am not going to bore people with the elements that go into the scientific studies.

To clarify, I do NOT claim to be a scientist. I am a mother, a patriot, and artist. I don’t pretend to be other than that.

I have read numerous articles that scientists have put out—especially concerning child-development. Before I changed my major, child development was it.

Although I may not understand certain “elements”, although at one time I did memorize some of the periodic table, I do trust a variety of scientists to report on their findings in a scientific manner.

Then I listen to my gut. Can I trust this study? Is their a profit motive? Why would Wakefield buck the system when he knows the “rules” on “peer reviews” and grant connections....to getting certain “desired” results. Is their pressure from a large corporation? Is government bought off by anyone? (that can’t ever happen with a virtuous government, huh?)


74 posted on 05/24/2010 11:01:52 AM PDT by savagesusie
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To: DJ MacWoW
So you don't believe that something in the vaccine, if not the vaccine itself, is causing autism? Even though you think that safety is sacrificed on the altar of mass production and the use of unsafe adjuvants.

You are so nuanced.

75 posted on 05/24/2010 11:05:52 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

What’s your point?


76 posted on 05/24/2010 11:13:09 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW
I don’t trust government

You need some supportable facts to argue from, not just "I don't trust the government; the government says X; therefore X must be a lie." That sort of "reasoning" leads to crackpot notions like "the moon landings were faked" and "the 9-11 attacks were a Bush-Cheney conspiracy".

77 posted on 05/24/2010 11:14:26 AM PDT by reaganairport
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To: reaganairport

You trust government to have your best interests at heart. I’ll watch.


78 posted on 05/24/2010 11:15:57 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Mase

The references are not sources I would place much trust in.


79 posted on 05/24/2010 11:20:01 AM PDT by This Just In
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To: DJ MacWoW; reaganairport

Trolling afoot?


80 posted on 05/24/2010 11:22:10 AM PDT by This Just In
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