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Re: MMR & Dr Wakefield

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:27 pm
by diplodocus
no rush mate, it'll just me a coupla days to track it down


Re: MMR & Dr Wakefield

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:54 pm
by woodgnome
the need for a definitive explanation as to why autism strikes some families and not others could not be more understandable but danish and finnish researchers have conducted surveys comprising over half-a-million children each and both arrive at same conclusion: there is no relationship between mmr and autism.

when you have comparative results based upon the cumulative sampling of over ONE MILLION children, it is hard, if not impossible, to see how a rational defence of the link theory can be made. hopefully, one day we will possess the means to counter this devestating condition but a wrong answer of any description is much, much, worse than no answer at all.

quote from vaccinationnews.com:

"A Danish survey included all of the 500,000 children born in the country between 1991 and 1998. After adjustments for age, sex, birth weight, and the mother's education and social class, children who received the MMR vaccine ? about 80% of the total ? had a slightly lower rate of autistic disorders than those who were not vaccinated. And autistic symptoms were no more likely to appear shortly after vaccination than at any other time.

A survey of more than 500,000 Finnish children who received the MMR vaccine in the early 1980s confirms the Danish results. The number of children brought to hospitals for observation because of newly recognized autistic symptoms did not rise in the three months after vaccination."

Re: MMR & Dr Wakefield

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:48 pm
by Pervert
As a result of the scare stories plastered across front pages, we now have a return to the good old days---epidemics of measles and mumps. Der Daily Mail and the likes must be very proud. Scaring the crap out of parents, and putting their children's health at risk, just to sell a few more rags---top job.

Re: MMR & Dr Wakefield

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:22 pm
by diplodocus
thank god i'm not the only one who's seen through this fraud, I first became interested in the subject when he also talked of a link to IBS and as I suffer from Crohn's disease I began looking into it. Fortunately i'm a scientist by trade and was able to cut out the crap journalism and soon came to realise Wakefield was talking crap. It became a lot worse when it began to emerge that he also had a lot of vested interests in alternative vaccines and so called cures for autism which he now peddles in the US. The guy is a discrace