Several subsequent studies, all much larger and better designed than Wakefield’s, have confirmed an absence of excess cases of autism or bowel disease in children who have received MMR vaccine. In 1999, for example, Dr Brent Taylor looked at 500 cases of autism in the Royal Free Hospital and found no excess in immunised children. A very large and well designed study in the USA – with a proper case control design and with all vaccination dates confirmed by medical records – looked at the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in people who had received MMR vaccine, other measles-containing vaccine, and no vaccine. The risk of inflammatory bowel disease was the same for vaccinated or unvaccinated people. The average time between vaccination and the development of bowel disease was 12 years. Only 1% of cases developed inflammatory bowel disease within a year of vaccination – and 1% of controls developed inflammatory bowel disease during the same time period. This study was cited in the medical journal ‘Bandolier’ and its results are available free online on http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/index.html
In conclusion, the Wakefield study was scientifically flawed on numerous counts. I am surprised that neither the editor nor the reviewers spotted these flaws when the paper was submitted. Had they done so, the public would have been saved the confusion and anxiety caused by false credibility conveyed by publication of the study in this prestigious journal.
The children that were followed for two weeks???? is proof??????
Yeah, that's what Wakefield did, now it's a bad thing? LOL!
Any luck on the mercury numbers? Or were you making stuff up again?
Well, well. It seems you lied not only about what Wakefield alleged, but the conflict of interest with Lancet editors, etc. The fact you claim he is responsible for deaths is reprehensible and you should get down on your knees and repent. You misrepresented Dr. Wakefield, as did the press. (Just like poor Tailgunner Joe!) Shame, shame! It is just what I thought...an Alinsky-iting of a great man, a whistleblower who dared to attack a giant. I knew his paper had the ring of truth to it!!!!!!!