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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
It’s not just the backwards parts of the world that are anti-vaccine. It’s happening right here in the good ol’ USA too. Oh wait, this is in New Jersey? I guess it IS just happening in the backwards parts of the world. But seriously folks, the anti-vaccine movement is seemingly filled with the same kinds [...]
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