Report: Study Linking Vaccine, Autism Fraudulent

LONDON -- 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.

The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet, where it was published. Still, the suggestion the MMR shot was connected to autism spooked parents worldwide and immunization rates for measles, mumps and rubella have never fully recovered.

A new examination found, by comparing the reported diagnoses in the paper to hospital records, that Wakefield and colleagues altered facts about patients in their study.

The analysis, by British journalist Brian Deer, found that despite the claim in Wakefield's paper that the 12 children studied were normal until they had the MMR shot, five had previously documented developmental problems. Deer also found that all the cases were somehow misrepresented when he compared data from medical records and the children's parents.

Wakefield could not be reached for comment despite repeated calls and requests to the publisher of his recent book, which claims there is a connection between vaccines and autism that has been ignored by the medical establishment. Wakefield now lives in the U.S. where he enjoys a vocal following including celebrity supporters like Jenny McCarthy.

Deer's article was paid for by the Sunday Times of London and Britain's Channel 4 television network. It was published online Thursday in the medical journal, BMJ.

In an accompanying editorial, BMJ editor Fiona Godlee and colleagues called Wakefield's study "an elaborate fraud." They said Wakefield's work in other journals should be examined to see if it should be retracted.

Last May, 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.

But measles has surged since Wakefield's paper was published and there are sporadic outbreaks in Europe and the U.S. In 2008, measles was deemed endemic in England and Wales.

[patrons99]

The is an utterly pathetic, revolting, and sordid, character assasination of a good man, by the pharma cartel. They are acting in concert to destroy the man. I am totally disgusted by the conduct of BMJ, Lancet, Brian Deer, and the GMC, in all of this. It is completely orchestrated by pharma to distract the public from the much greater issue of the wisdom of vaccination and vaccine risks, generally. They do not wish to even discuss the subject. The public has a right to know the truth. The public can handle the truth. Pharma can't handle the truth.

I'd like to see every physician (MD, DO, DC, ND), PhD, MPH, RN, and NP, on this board consider joining and supporting the VaccineCouncil.Org.

http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/about/

Principles and Findings

* We are profoundly critical of the practice of vaccination. Vaccination is an unacceptable risk to every member of society, regardless of age.
* As medical professionals, Council members have observed first-hand the health of vaccinated vs. the unvaccinated. We find the latter group to be robust, healthy and drug-free compared to the former group.
* We have reviewed published studies in support of vaccines and have found them wanting in both substance and science.
* We have brought out into the open hundreds of peer-reviewed, published medical articles that document the damage and the diseases caused by vaccines.
* We find the premise of herd immunity to be a faulty theory.
* We encourage intelligent debate about vaccination.
* We expect individuals to take responsibility for their health and the health of their children by investigating the problems due to vaccination prior to subjecting their children, or themselves, to this medical procedure.
* We believe that refusing vaccination is a personal right that should be legislatively guaranteed.

http://www.naturalnews.com/SpecialReports/VaccinesFullStory/v1/VaccineReport-EN.pdf

[skolasc]

Although nothing is written in stone, we must be grateful for the attempts to eliminate childhood disease. I lived with a sister who turned deaf from the measles. I almost died from the high fevers the disease gave me. I am all for continuing research but to jump to histrionic conclusions and pressure scientist to find cures cause false findings and mass hysteria. We are a generation of fast information. We must individually take responsibility to read, educate and inform ourselves with information that covers all viewpoints and take care of ourselves, children and family. Thank God we do not have the black plague or polio. We are a nation of healthy children but I am concerned about us becoming a nation of ignorance.

[nitna911]

Although small children can't tell you what is going on with their body after vaccination, an adult can, and I am here to tell you that after I received a tetanus booster 2 years ago my life has never been the same. If a vaccine can do this to me I can't imagine what it can do to an infant. My kids were vaccinated as children with no effects. Four days after my vaccination my arm swelled like a baseball and within hours started having some neurological problems. It can't just be a coincidence. Doctors aren't even knowledgable about the vaccine reactions that are listed on the vaccine insert even though it states neurological complications could arise, they say "that can't happen". I am here to say it does. Let's keep an open mind. I realize no vaccinations is not the answer, but I know for a fact I will NEVER receive another vaccine as long as I live. Why can't we have some HONEST government and pharmaceutical studies so we can have the real truth instead of hiding it, no matter what is concluded? The government certainly doesn't want to admit it could cause problems because we could begin to see epidemics, and pharmaceuticals will suffer monetarily. I just want the truth. If I would have forgone the booster shot, I could have been cured of tetanus in the remote chance I had contracted it, but no one can help me with the effects of the vaccine.

[lisdafied]

The fact that this whole debacle was started based on a study on only 12 children is ludicrous! This seems like a seemingly simple task: research vaccinated children. Research non-vaccinated children. Do non-vaccinated children get diagnosed with autism?? What are the percentages of non-vaccinated kids who do have autism? Dates of autism diagnoses of those who were vaccinated? Why are THESE types of studies not occurring with 100's of thousands of children? Why did we base the safety of our entire society off of the fraudulent results of a study done on 12 children? Vaccinations have changed the way we live. Since none of us were here at the turn of the last century, none of us can remember the TB outbreaks killing entire families, when polio ran rampant in the mid-50's, or the devastation and loss measles has caused over the past centuries, just to name a few! I will take whatever "risk" is necessary to vaccinate my children and ensure that they are disease-free and that they don't ever contribute to the death of another because of transporting a deadly disease.

[saransk]

When I was in 3rd grade, they lined all of us up, marched us into the school cafeteria, and gave us the 1st polio vaccine. Like the diseases that the MMR vaccinates against, polio was a true child abuser. Just like measles that can lead to deafness and even death, mumps that have their own serious consequences, and rubella - always a danger. I'm sure there were statistically a small number of children who reacted against the vaccine, and some suffered in adulthood after the vaccine "wore off" but it ended the scourge of polio because all of us got it.
It isn't just the welfare of a small group of children hear, every child who doesn't get vaccinated is a potential "Typhoid Mary" for every other child. The fraud was perpetrated for some personal reason and thousands of children have been put at risk because of it.

[journey7]

Not everything has answers..autism is just one of those divine mysteries..its sad some of the downfalls of autism but i swear those kids bring light to this world

[soap-suds]

People subject themselves and their children to risk every time they travel on the roads, but they are not willing to vaccinate. I have no sympathy for them; they apparently do not remember, for instance, the dreaded polio. The sights of child patients living in iron lungs was terrible. Smallpox was deadly. Etc. It is, however, their choice.

[GunsInTheSky]

by infowars_com January 6, 2011 9:41 AM EST
btw.. hitting your kid or "abusing them" is NOT the same as "protecting them" from possible harm from a chemical being injected into their body which you have really no idea where it came from who handled it or what possibly could happen after injecting it. Not to mention the science behind it is being debunked and that science is debunked and the only people who tell you its perfectly safe is doctors and big pharma who get paid to tell you such things

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Actually 11 of the 13 scientists that wrote the original paper that started all this mess have said their findings were incorrect.

And with holding proper medical treatment is child abuse, no matter what insanity you use to excuse your counterproductive opinions.

[nottblu]

NOt vaccinating children is the same as child abuse. Thanks to childhood vaccinations smallpox has been eradicated from the planet except for labs.

[infowars_com]

Not all children are the same. People react to chemicals and food in different ways. One that helps one person could kill another. Like eating shellfish. I could eat shellfish all day and not get sick, but a friend of mine... if she eats it she will die. Now is that child abuse? No. It's a fact that people react to things differently and not every vaccine is safe for every person. To say that they are safe for everyone is "brain abuse" or in other words.. dumb.

[infowars_com]

btw.. hitting your kid or "abusing them" is NOT the same as "protecting them" from possible harm from a chemical being injected into their body which you have really no idea where it came from who handled it or what possibly could happen after injecting it. Not to mention the science behind it is being debunked and that science is debunked and the only people who tell you its perfectly safe is doctors and big pharma who get paid to tell you such things.

[infowars_com]

1. Some vaccines DO contain mecury. Quote from the FDA's website: "Vaccines with trace amounts of thimerosal contain 1 microgram or less of mercury per dose." Link here: http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/UCM096228

2. Mercury causes problems with the brain. I don't need a link for this do I? Really? ok.. here: University of Calvery video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHqVDMr9ivo


3. Mercury does not leave your body... ever. NEVER. It stays in your body forever. There are scientists who are working on extracting it from the body and brain but nothing is available yet. So you are stuck with poison in your body if you ingest or somehow get mercury in your body... forever. That means that a small amount you ingest gets bigger each time you eat more. The more tuna you eat the more mercury you gather. And over time it will effect you.

4. Everyone reacts differently to different amounts of things such as poison. Just like some people can drink one beer and be ok, but others will be effected differently by one beer and be drunk. Same case for small children... one beer can make them drunk. Well different amounts of mercury in your body will effect people also. Sometimes it takes longer for it to effect you and sometimes in those rare cases like guillain barre syndrome it happens right away.

5. Don't beleive everything you read on the internet, or see on tv. Research the info yourself.

6. Ask yourself why are they blasting this info on the tv daily along with more swine flu scares? Who is profitting from it? Who pays for all those pharmaceutical commercials on TV? Big Pharma does. Should you trust someone who has a vested interest in the sales of vaccines? Or trust the facts?

7. This one study they debunk is not the only study linking autism to vaccines but they make it seem like it is.

8. Anyone who doesn't take big pharma's drug's (because that's all they are : drug dealers) is a crazy person.

[infowars_com]

I'd like to add to number 4 above by saying that this explains Autism and Alzheimer's Disease. Where the mercury causes some kids to get autism from the shot, and where later in life some people get Alzheimer's because of the "build-up" of mercury and the degregation of their brain over time. This of course is not mentioned by any doctors who work for big pharma because it makes sense. I'm not a doctor and can't prove any of this, but it's a better theory than the medical industrys theory of "We have no idea what causes that stuff to happen.. man we are just too stupid.. but if you take our drugs you will be safe". Just like a drug dealer would say.

[matuliska]

Please link to these other studies.