Jeff Hoy, American
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Jeff Hoy, American

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Andrew Wakefield lied, children died… – Part 3

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Jeff Hoy

12 years later and some real progress is finally being made on this stupid crap. A prominent British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a 1998 research paper that set off a sharp decline in vaccinations in Britain after the paper’s lead author suggested that vaccines could cause autism. Why did he do it? Possibly to [...]

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Andrew Wakefield lied, children died… – Part 2

Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Jeff Hoy

Researcher Who Sparked the Vaccine/Autism Scare “Acted Unethically” The MMR/autism hypothesis took off in 1998 with the publication of a study of 12 autistic children by Canadian gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield.  Wakefield’s study found traces of the measles virus in the guts of children he tested.  He concluded that the virus derived from the MMR vaccination, [...]

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Andrew Wakefield lied, children died…

Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Jeff Hoy

The doctor that did the study that supposedly established a link between vaccinations and autism fudged the research data to make the link.  So says The Sunday Times. Some of the important bits: In most of the 12 cases, the children’s ailments as described in The Lancet were different from their hospital and GP records. [...]

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