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Old 02-02-2010, 04:22 PM   #1
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First the Court Rules NO Link between vaccines and Autism....

Now "Science" has corrected itself.

Medical journal retracts study linking autism to vaccine - CNN.com


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(CNN) -- The medical journal The Lancet on Tuesday retracted a controversial 1998 paper that linked the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism.
The study subsequently had been discredited, and last week, the lead author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, was found to have acted unethically in conducting the research.
The General Medical Council, which oversees doctors in Britain, said that "there was a biased selection of patients in The Lancet paper" and that his "conduct in this regard was dishonest and irresponsible."
The panel found that Wakefield subjected some children in the study to various invasive medical procedures such as colonoscopies and MRI scans. He also paid children for blood samples for research purposes at his son's birthday party, an act that "showed a callous disregard" for the "distress and pain" of the children, the panel said.
Following the council's findings last week, The Lancet retracted the study and released this statement.
"It has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al. are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation. In particular, the claims in the original paper that children were 'consecutively referred' and that investigations were 'approved' by the local ethics committee have been proven to be false. Therefore we fully retract this paper from the published record."
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Since its publication, Wakefield's study has attracted many critics who argued that the work had been so flawed it should not be regarded as scientific.


Court ruled first (sorta) now this fake science has gone away. Can we stop claiming there's a link now?
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Old 02-02-2010, 05:05 PM   #2
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My wife's cousin has a son that is autistic and they swear it was from his immunizations when he was a baby. I doubted it but I would never argue with them about it.
 
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