Retracted Autism study declared a fraud

[basketcase]

Not that it is unexpected.


Retracted autism study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds

(CNN) -- 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."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/index.html?hpt=T1

 

[localwebguy]

Wow, the fraudsters are calling the real thing a fraud. How obviously and pathetic.

 

[5hummer]

We all know that (ex-Playmate/ex-Jim Carrey GF) Jenny Mccarthy cured autism ...

 

[basketcase]

Wakefield is on Anderson Cooper tonight.

The guy was around $650,000 by a lawyer to support a lawsuit and did his 'study' simply for that purpose.


The defining quote from the article
"Unfortunately, his core group of supporters is not going to let the facts dissuade their beliefs that MMR causes autism,"

 

[localwebguy]

It's not the MMR vax that does it. It's the mercury in the vax that does it. That is just science, not opinion and this debate is getting old. The media keeps pushing their corporate sponsors message despite the science. Science doesn't sell pharmaceuticals and science doesn't pay the tv station's bills.

 

[basketcase]

Except all of the science says you are one of those people who ignore facts because they think they know better.

Repeated studies have shown no link between vaccines (including thimerosal) and autism and the only one that claims to show a link is the fraudulent one that was put together by a dishonest quack at behest of a lawyer. Believe what you will but don't argue it's science.

Tune in to CNN in about 5 minutes to hear this quack get ripped apart.



p.s. thimerosal was removed from mmr vaccines in 2001 yet autism rates are still going up (but I'm sure you have an answer for that).

 

[T.O.tourist]

We all know that (ex-Playmate/ex-Jim Carrey GF) Jenny Mccarthy cured autism ...

The Cable Guy was doing Jenny McCarthy!!!!!!??
Dude, way to go.

 

[basketcase]

First segment of the interview has wakefield saying that everyone is lying then trying to sell his book.

 

[basketcase]

Original article
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full

 

[localwebguy]

Acta Neurobiol Exp (Wars). 2010;70(2):147-64.
Influence of pediatric vaccines on amygdala growth and opioid ligand binding in rhesus macaque infants: A pilot study.

Hewitson L, Lopresti BJ, Stott C, Mason NS, Tomko J.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. lch1@pitt.edu

Abstract
This longitudinal, case-control pilot study examined amygdala growth in rhesus macaque infants receiving the complete US childhood vaccine schedule (1994-1999). Longitudinal structural and functional neuroimaging was undertaken to examine central effects of the vaccine regimen on the developing brain. Vaccine-exposed and saline-injected control infants underwent MRI and PET imaging at approximately 4 and 6 months of age, representing two specific timeframes within the vaccination schedule. Volumetric analyses showed that exposed animals did not undergo the maturational changes over time in amygdala volume that was observed in unexposed animals. After controlling for left amygdala volume, the binding of the opioid antagonist [(11)C]diprenorphine (DPN) in exposed animals remained relatively constant over time, compared with unexposed animals, in which a significant decrease in [(11)C]DPN binding occurred. These results suggest that maturational changes in amygdala volume and the binding capacity of [(11)C]DPN in the amygdala was significantly altered in infant macaques receiving the vaccine schedule. The macaque infant is a relevant animal model in which to investigate specific environmental exposures and structural/functional neuroimaging during neurodevelopment.

PMID: 20628439

 

[localwebguy]

The CNN piece you posted has to be considered in context with all this, in chronological order:

http://www.whale.to/a/dr_andrew_wakefield.html
Posted 4-2010 Re: 2007 GMC Hearing, before decision.

http://goldenhawkprojects.blogspot.com/
Same AW video as above, so I suggest your focus here be on the Brian Deer "Selective Hearing" video Re: 2007 GMC Hearing w/some of the parents included also.

http://childhealthsafety.wordpress....ws-research-links-kids-vaccines-brain-damage/

http://www.autismone.org/content/andrew-wakefield-md

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/10/wakefield-interview.aspx
Interview transcript is here to download also.
FYI: Dr. Mercola is an excellent resource for heath.

http://autismfile.com/media/videos/the-frontier/andrew-wakefield-speaks-at-parliament-on-autism/

 

[basketcase]

If you want timelines, how about Wakefield applying for a patent on a measles vaccine then getting getting paid to be part of a MMR lawsuit then conducting a study in which he miraculously (and fraudlantly) 'proves' the exact thing that he was being paid for?


You may also have noted that the study on monkeys you posted says nothing about autism.

You also have not bothered to comment on why autism rates are still going up despite Canada and the US not using thimerosal since 2001.



I would make the assumption that you have a direct connection with ASD and I know how difficult it can be, especially on parents, and the hope for some kind of cure or the desire to find someone to blame is strong but the science does not back up the claims.

 

[blackrock13]

And how about the flu vaccine - thats the biggest fraud ever - there is no evidence it ever worked.

Who did a disservice to public health?? The BMJ is turning into trash.

We could also say there isn't evidence it didn't, using your logic. The threat is still there and that's why they made the H1N1 flu shot part of the cocktail for this flu season. If you want to open up that debate go for it. You obviously weren't paying attention last winter.

You read many articles from the BMJ do you or just flapping your gums.

 

[odie999]

It's not the MMR vax that does it. It's the mercury in the vax that does it. That is just science, not opinion and this debate is getting old. The media keeps pushing their corporate sponsors message despite the science. Science doesn't sell pharmaceuticals and science doesn't pay the tv station's bills.

I suppose it could be the mercury. Here's what I've read over the last little while:

After Califormia removed the thimerosal autism rates kept going up.

In Britain there was a study where for 20 years they kept the diagnostic criteria the same. No increase in autism.

In the US, in at least a few of the places where autism diagnosis has been rising, diagnosis of

1. language disorders
2. "mental retardation"

have fallen by the same amount as autism rose.

The attitude of some of those folks is very interesting. All studies showing no link are totally shoddy, and all the studies showing a link are great science.

 

[Aardvark154]

There is nothing like a true believer is there Localwebguy, it doesn't matter what the facts show. Obviously if they show anything other than what you believe it is the sign of a conspiracy.

 

[Aardvark154]

I suppose it could be the mercury. Here's what I've read over the last little while:

After Califormia removed the thimerosal autism rates kept going up.

In Britain there was a study where for 20 years they kept the diagnostic criteria the same. No increase in autism.

Not to mention Denmark where thimerosal was never used.

 

[alexmst]

SOMETHING sure is causing kids to be born with autism at an alarming rate comapred to 30 years ago. If not vaccines, then something else. What it is is the 64,000 question.

 

[Aardvark154]

SOMETHING sure is causing kids to be born with autism at an alarming rate comapred to 30 years ago. If not vaccines, then something else. What it is is the 64,000 question.

One typically overlooked "cause" is better clinical diagnosis than in 1960.

 

[blackrock13]

The threat is still there? Oh Blackrock, next you'll tell me you merrily got the shot. Never pegged you for a sheep.

I have bad news for you, I do every year because I spend a great deal of time with others who have compromised immune systems and I wouldn't want to pass anything on to them. I also get the full set of immunizations for a number of other diseases that most people don't as I spend time in places you only read about. The pandemic threat may be down but there are still cases of H1N1 being contracted in Canada and elsewhere. It take one family from a nother corner of the world on one international flight and game on once again.

This years seasonal 2010-11 vaccine has begun shipping from manufacturers and protects against an H3N2 virus, an influenza B virus, and the 2009 H1N1 virus specifically unlike last year. As of mid Dec 2010, about 90 per cent of the flu cases in Canada so far this season are from the H3N2 strain, which has circulated in the country before and is covered in this year’s vaccine. About 9 per cent of cases are from the swine flu or H1N1, and that, too, is covered in the vaccine. Case numbers this year are down because of the concerted heavy effort last year.

Every one of the medical professional that I work along side do the same. I'd say they have more knowledge/expertise about communicable diseases than you .

http://www.suite101.com/content/sea...own-in-canada-doctors-urge-flu-shots-a328246:

According to Toronto public health officials, 20 percent fewer people have received the annual flu shot compared to 2008 and 2009. The city's associate medical officer, Dr. Irene Armstrong says of the 515 confirmed cases of flu in the city, 300 are the H3N2 strain. Five deaths in Toronto have been linked to the flu.

So you observations are based on your scientific/medical training from where?

 

[localwebguy]

Flu deaths are caused by complications that arise, not the flu itself. People with old or underdeveloped and/or weakened immune systems, poor respiratory systems are the ones who get fatally ill after a flu.

Electron microscope video footage of mercury destroying brain cells is pretty strong science.

The MMR shot causes swelling in the stomachs, which causes a reaction in the brain, which causes problems that are often permanent.

When mercury is removed aluminium is added. It too is toxic.

A human baby is still very much like a fetus in that the baby is not even close to being ready for the world. The bones are soft, the eyes don't focus, and most importantly is that the immune system is not finished developing. The first thing doctors want to do is inject the baby with vaccines. If vaccines are supposed to suppliment immune action then it does not make sense to bombard the undeveloped immune system. The bombardment impairs it, and now the immune system is not going to develop correctly.

Vaccines are injected into the muscle.
Our immune systems evolved to be strongest in the airways into the lungs and the passage into the stomach.
Our stomachs are hostile environments for whatever gets in there.
Whatever makes it past these natural safe-guards is then dealt with in the blood.
When a vax is injected into the muscle it bypasses these systems and the immune system does more work than it evolved for. It's called immune shock. That is why the flue shot causes people to become terribly ill when they receive it.

There are no autistic people or people with developmental disorders anywhere in my family. This is not a personal issue I am looking to recover from.

Flu shots are Bull because the virus mutates faster than they can develop vax for. They guess at it and sell the guesswork.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...xpert-Pediatrician-Exposes-Vaccine-Myths.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...asonal-Flu-Shots-and-Recommend-Vitamin-D.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/12/11/the-toxic-origins-of-autism.aspx
http://www.parentsplace.ca/2011/01/9-questions-that-stump-every-pro-vaccine-advocate/
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/01/29/what-really-causes-autism.aspx
http://www.parentsplace.ca/2010/12/...h-vaccine-legal-cause-of-epilepsy-boys-death/
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/24/VERY-Important-Vaccine-Question.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/11/25/does-the-flu-shot-even-work.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...ine-actually-increases-risk-of-swine-flu.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/26/Flu-Vaccine-Exposed.aspx
http://www.parentsplace.ca/2010/07/heres-a-quick-read-about-your-child-and-vaccinations/
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...riples-the-Risk-of-Autism-in-Infant-Boys.aspx