DW> > Andrew Wakefield was struck from the medical register (UK equivalent of
DW> > stripped of his medical license) for his involvement in the /The Lancet/
DW> > autism fraud. As an autistic person, I abjectly and categorically refuse
DW> > even consider forgetting what that human-shaped sack of hateful excremen
DW> > done to us.
DW> IMHO, the only "link" between those shots and autism is that the age where
DW> kids start getting those shots is also the age where autistic behaviors
DW> begin to become obvious. In other words, it is a coincidence and nothing
DW> more.
Patently false. Wakefield's paper ("Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia,
non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children",
https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0140-6736%2897%2911096-0) claimed that the MMR
vaccine caused gastroïntestinal abnormalities as well as autism.
For background, it came in the wake of a revaccination campaign of all
school-aged (5-16) children in England, after measles outbreaks there in 1992.
In April 1994, lawyer Richard Barr won legal aid for the pursuit of a
class-action lawsuit against MMR vaccine providers under the Consumer Protection
Act 1987, on the claim that the vaccine was a defective product and shouldn't
have been used. Barr contacted Wakefield for his expertise after reading two
papers he published regarding the role of the measles virus in Crohn's disease
and in IBD.
It was in that context, and with funding from the Legal Aid Board (since
replaced by the Legal Aid Agency) in the amount of £435,643 (+ expenses) as part
of that lawsuit, that Wakefield wrote That Paper. In addition to unethically
manipulating evidence, Wakefield knew of test results from his own laboratory at
the Royal Free Hospital that contradicted his claims, and had multiple conflicts
of interest that he failed to disclose:
1. Wakefield was in Barr's employ, at £150 per hour (+ expenses), as an expert
witness in his planned class-action suit. They recruited the twelve children
studied through anti-MMR campaigners, actively seeking the parents of cases that
might imply a connection between MMR and autism.
2. Wakefield's name was on a patent for a single measles vaccine,
giving him a financial incentive to discredit a combined MR or MMR vaccine.
The paper claimed that all twelve children were "previously normal", but five of
them actually had documented preëxisting developmental concerns. It claimed that
nine of them had been diagnosed with regressive autism, but three of them were
allistic (i.e. not autistic), and only one of the nine was clearly exhibiting
regressive autism. In nine of the twelve cases, unremarkable colonic
histopathology results were changed after a medical school "research review" to
"non-specific colitis". Eleven of the twelve families made allegations at the
hospital that the MMR vaccine caused their children to be autistic and/or have
GI issues, but three of those claims were withheld because they gave onset times
on a scale of months, so as to fabricate a fourteen-day temporal link.
/Sunday Times/ reporter Brian Deer exposed the fakery inherent in Wakefield's
research in a lengthy investigation in February 2004. Four years later, in 2008,
a separate study was performed on children with gastroïntestinal disturbances,
which found that there was no difference between autistic and allistic children
studied with respect to the presence of measles virus RNA in their bowels; it
also found that GI symptoms and onset of autism had no temporal relation to the
administration of the MMR vaccine. Expert analyses of the children that
Wakefield claimed had "non-specific colitis" or "autistic enterocolitis" showed
that their bowels were overwhelmingly normal.
Whatsmore, the MMR vaccine isn't used in Japan; instead, they use an MR vaccine
and a separate one for mumps. The occurrence rate of autism there is no higher
than the rest of the world, which disproves any link between the MMR vaccine and
autism.
/The Lancet/ retracted the paper partially in 2004, and completely in February
2010; Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register three months later.
Vaccines. Do. Not. Cause. Autism. And yet, there are enough antivaxxer parents
who still believe Wakefield's steaming horseshit that measles is now endemic in
the UK and resurging in the US.
DW> On an unrelated note, do you know why all of your posts here have the
DW> subject changed to include '[ANSI' at the beginning? If it isn't your
DW> board, you may not know but I thought I would ask.
I think it's my board's doing, because I was putting colorized text in my posts
(mainly my signature). ._.
-╠╣âlian
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