TL;DR: Concerns about vaccines causing autism are unfounded; scientifically proven to be nonsense; and are the result of ONE nonscientific, falsified, fraudulent article funded by a group planning a lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers. (Via Leah Cates; quotations thanks to transcribers at Upworthy) In 1998, an article published in The Lancet that followed cases twelve children with developmental regression and gastrointestinal symptoms, such as diarrhea or stomach pain. Nine of these children had autism, and eight of the nine had parents who thought the symptoms of their autism had developed after the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, or the MMR vaccine, was administered. This was not a randomized controlled trial nor even a scientific study. It was merely description of a small group of children... In 2004, 10 of the 12 authors of that first Lancet paper retracted the supposition that the MMR vaccine could cause autism. This kind of thing is unbelievably rare in the medical literature. An 11th author could not be contacted before the retraction. Only one researcher, the main one in fact, held firm. For the record, that researcher is no longer licensed to practice medicine in the United Kingdom.... [Updated research] in 2012 ... involved about 14,700,000 children. And in all that data, they could find no link between vaccines and autism because there is no link. And another study, no matter how many times you ask for one, isnt going to overcome this massive amount of data... This was all because a one paper a decade and a half ago that described the beliefs of the parents of eight children with autism, and thats what makes the next part in this all the more tragic. In 2011, the British Medical Journal released an article which described, in detail, how that 1998 Lancet paper wasnt just junk science, it was a lie. It described how the main author, the only one who still support its findings, changed the records, changed the stories, and changed the numbers to create the appearance of an association where none existed... all of the patients had been recruited by anti-MMR campaigners. The study was also commissioned and paid for by a group that planned litigation against the vaccine manufacturers. The British Medical Journal called the original answer paper a fraud.
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 14:16:39 +0000
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