tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406721589945384372.post728218612704472629..comments2024-02-25T14:33:37.251-05:00Comments on Just the Vax: Andrew Wakefield is the Anti-Vaxx Gift That Keeps Givingjustthevaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07081499341191718417noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406721589945384372.post-48542018168111852612018-03-02T15:31:27.918-05:002018-03-02T15:31:27.918-05:00Oh please, a slightly slick anti-vaxx disinformati...Oh please, a slightly slick anti-vaxx disinformation site thinly-veiled as a legitimate scientific organisation. Can't you people ever provide legitimate sources?Science Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08832263571481452559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406721589945384372.post-63998243042557969932018-03-02T12:47:37.466-05:002018-03-02T12:47:37.466-05:00Science is a process and, as such, is vulnerable t...Science is a process and, as such, is vulnerable to human foible. It works through constant scrutiny and re-evaluation. If you are truly interested in "science-based vaccine information", please consider this very well researched and documented article, not just about the Wakefield case, but professional research in general http://ahrp.org/laffaire-wakefield-shades-of-dreyfus-bmjs-descent-into-tabloid-science/Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406721589945384372.post-30768638458978262032017-10-10T11:40:20.903-04:002017-10-10T11:40:20.903-04:00You did not answer my question. Where is his actu...You did not answer my question. Where is his actual evidence? It is not in his paper.<br /><br />Here is a thought: the USA introduced its first MMR vaccine in 1971. The USA is a much larger country than the UK, and had been using an MMR vaccine for almost twenty years longer. If it was associated with autism, it would have been noticed (and not in a small case series where the data had been fudged).<br /><br />Please provide the verifiable documentation dated before 1990 that there was an increase in autism in the USA during the 1970s and 1980s coincident when the use of the MMR vaccine, which was the preferred vaccine for the 1978 Measles Elimination Program.<br /><br />And provide real verifiable documentation, not the same old cut and paste pap used over and over and over again. Especially since it had nothing to do with the actual question.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14428361191787397415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406721589945384372.post-85823223552758300282017-08-22T23:37:37.428-04:002017-08-22T23:37:37.428-04:00From an article in 2011 NY Times:
The conclusions ...From an article in 2011 NY Times:<br />The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues were renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal The Lancet, where it was published. Still, the suggestion that the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine was connected to autism rattled parents worldwide; immunization rates for the MMR shot have never fully recovered.<br /><br />A new examination found, by comparing the reported diagnoses in the paper with hospital records, that Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues had altered facts about patients in their study.<br />LONDON (AP) -- The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.<br /><br />The analysis, by a British journalist, Brian Deer, found that despite the assertion in Dr. Wakefield's paper that the 12 children studied were normal until they had the MMR shot, 5 had previously documented developmental problems. Mr. Deer also found that all the cases were somehow misrepresented when he compared data from medical records and the children's parents."<br />...<br />In an accompanying editorial, the BMJ editor Fiona Godlee and colleagues called Dr. Wakefield's study ''an elaborate fraud.'' They said Dr. Wakefield's work in other journals should be examined to see if it should be retracted.<br /><br />Last May, Dr. Wakefield was stripped of his right to practice medicine in Britain. Many other published studies have shown no connection between the MMR vaccination and autism.<br /><br />But measles has surged since Dr. Wakefield's paper was published, and there are sporadic outbreaks in Europe and the United States. In 2008, measles was deemed endemic in England and Wales.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406721589945384372.post-91708859461193770712017-07-10T21:50:03.802-04:002017-07-10T21:50:03.802-04:00Then explain why during the video press release he...Then explain why during the video press release he made the claim and told parents to get single vaccines? Also explain why he went to Minnesota to tell folks that the MMR vaccine caused autism at least three times five/six years ago (read the article).Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14428361191787397415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406721589945384372.post-63047804184176644892017-06-22T03:55:49.535-04:002017-06-22T03:55:49.535-04:00Here is the link to the Dr. Wakefield's articl...Here is the link to the Dr. Wakefield's article from 1998:<br />http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(97)11096-0/abstract<br />This article isn't about autism at all. The word "autism" comes only because 9 of 12 children had autism. Dr. Wakefield is a gastroenterologist, he published his article with 12 other scientists, were all of them frauds? <br />The conclusion was:<br />"We have identified a chronic enterocolitis in children<br />that may be related to neuropsychiatric dysfunction. In<br />most cases, onset of symptoms was after measles,<br />mumps, and rubella immunisation. Further investigations<br />are needed to examine this syndrome and its possible<br />relation to this vaccine."<br />As you see Dr. Wakefield just suggested a hypothesis, nothing else. That's why the outcry? Since when observation of abnormalities is fraud? It looks like pharma lobby made Dr. Wakefield the scapegoat for this very humble article... It's more than ridiculous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406721589945384372.post-75886786474732599442017-04-18T21:01:07.564-04:002017-04-18T21:01:07.564-04:00Thank you for calling this for what it is: Andrew...Thank you for calling this for what it is: Andrew Wakefield's fault. He hasn't prevented a single case of autism with his con, but he has brought suffering and injury to this community now, not once, but twice. Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05017940269859801483noreply@blogger.com