Courts quietly confirm that vaccines cause autism.

http://worldtruth.tv/courts-quietly-confirm-mmr-vaccine-causes-autism‏/

I know we had a discussion on here a long time about that certain vaccines cause autism and the people on the left denied it or said there was no positive link between the two. Guess we know the truth now.

 

I've always believed it...the spike in autism rates wasn't just "random".

 

Not this absolute nonsense again. I hope that the UK follows through with its threat to file felony charges against Dr. Andrew Wakefield who started this total rubbish with his fabricated studies. Vaccines do not cause autism - this absurd garbage has been completely debunked. Unfortunately this did not occur before world-wide damage in disease control occurred.

Let's look at the impact of this nonsense:
Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts
Legions spurned a long-proven vaccine, putting a generation at risk
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323300004578555453881252798.html

Polio Eradication Suffers A Setback As Somali Outbreak Worsens
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/22/203601730/SOMALIA-POLIO-OUTBREAK

 

Retracted autism study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/index.html

A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud" that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday.

An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study's author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study -- and that there was "no doubt" Wakefield was responsible.

"It's one thing to have a bad study, a study full of error, and for the authors then to admit that they made errors," Fiona Godlee, BMJ's editor-in-chief, told CNN. "But in this case, we have a very different picture of what seems to be a deliberate attempt to create an impression that there was a link by falsifying the data."

Britain stripped Wakefield of his medical license in May. "Meanwhile, the damage to public health continues, fueled by unbalanced media reporting and an ineffective response from government, researchers, journals and the medical profession," BMJ states in an editorial accompanying the work.

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The legacy of Andrew Wakefield continues
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/05/22/the-legacy-of-andrew-wakefield-continues/

Actions have consequences. No matter how much the person might want to try to hide from the consequences of one’s actions, they frequently have a way of coming back, grabbing you by the neck, and letting you know they’re there. We see it happening now in the U.K.

Fifteen years ago, British doctor Andrew Wakefield published a case series in The Lancet in which he described gastrointestinal symptoms in 12 autistic children who were treated at the Royal Free Hospital. His conclusion was that he had identified associated gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression in a group of previously normal children that appeared to be associated with the MMR vaccine. The paper causes a sensation (a panic, actually), leading British parent to refuse to vaccinate their children with the MMR for fear that it was associated with autism. Meanwhile, with a “wink, wink, nudge, nudge,” charisma, and skill at self-promotion, Wakefield promoted the idea that the MMR vaccine causes autism. True, his Lancet paper didn’t exactly say that, whether through the enforcement of caution on its statements by the reviewers who accepted it or through plausible deniability is not clear, but Wakefield himself wasn’t so shy. Nor was the British tabloid press, with its notoriously insatiable appetite for scandal and sensationalism, which eagerly glommed onto the story and promoted it with nearly the same intensity that Wakefield did. Ultimately, MMR uptake rates plummeted and the measles, vanquished in the U.K. in the 1990s, came roaring back to endemic levels within a decade.

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Indeed it is. This is Andrew Wakefield’s legacy, the resurgence of a disease that, thanks to vaccination, was once under control. Even though 15 years is a long time, the effects of Wakefield’s perfidy live on in the suffering of children who hadn’t even been born yet at the time but who are victims of Wakefield every bit as much as the children whose care he oversaw as part of his clinical study at the Royal Free Hospital. It doesn’t matter to them that, thanks to the dogged investigation and intrepid reporting of investigative journalist Brian Deer, we now know that Andrew Wakefield was in the pocket of trial lawyers who were interested in suing vaccine manufacturers and wanted research to cite in lawsuits. Nor does it matter to them that, as a result of research misconduct, Andrew Wakefield was stripped of his U.K. medical license (or, as the Brits like to call it, “struck off”). It doesn’t matter that two years ago it was revealed that Wakefield had almost certainly committed research fraud in gathering the data he later published in The Lancet, so much so that Deer labeled it “Piltdown medicine” and “inventing autistic enterocolitis.” Nor does it matter that The Lancet, in an apparent effort to atone for the massive mistake it had made in even publishing Wakefield’s case series in the first place, retracted the paper and that ultimately even the quack clinic that Wakefield had helped found decided to give him the boot. Wakefield has fallen into about as much disrepute as it’s possible to fall, short of becoming a Nazi or a pedophile, and deservedly so. Meanwhile, the science consistently fails to support Wakefield’s hypothesis that the MMR vaccine is somehow associated with autism and “autistic enterocolitis.”


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I don't know. This huffpo story seems to provide some unbiased info.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/post2468343_b_2468343.html

 

Let me guess, your kids don't have autism and are perfect?

 

did anybody check if the rate of Autism is lower in the population with measles?

For some reason, completely unfathomable to modern "science" Amish people don't get Autism [unless they are vaccinated] http://intellihub.com/2013/06/13/th...and-they-dont-get-vaccinations-possible-link/

 

This is the most recent and exhaustive study on the subject:
http://jpeds.com/webfiles/images/journals/ympd/JPEDSDeStefano.pdf

 

The court also confirmed that OJ was innocent...