Re: MMR link to AUTISM
Why will it be years before there is any conclusive study? There are already decades of data and they have been reviewed.
“Following the initial claims in 1998, multiple large epidemiological studies were undertaken. Reviews of the evidence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences, the UK National Health Service, and the Cochrane Library all found no link between the vaccine and autism.”
One rouge medical professional managing to get a paper published making some wild claims does not contribute to there being an actual link. I am not aware of any other factual results, study or analysis in existence linking MMR and autism.
It’s worth reading the link I posted above in full. Some snippets:
“Deer continued his reporting in a Channel 4 Dispatches television documentary, MMR: What They Didn’t Tell You, broadcast on 18 November 2004. This documentary alleged that Wakefield had applied for patents on a vaccine that was a rival of the MMR vaccine, and that he knew of test results from his own laboratory at the Royal Free Hospital that contradicted his claims.[3] Wakefield’s patent application was also noted in the 2008 book Autism’s False Prophets by Paul Offit.”
“On 5 January 2011, the BMJ published the first of a series of articles by Brian Deer, detailing how Wakefield and his colleagues had faked some of the data behind the 1998 Lancet article. By looking at the records and interviewing the parents, Deer found that for all 12 children in the Wakefield study, diagnoses had been tweaked or dates changed to fit the article’s conclusion.”
“In 2001, Berelowitz, one of the co-authors of the paper, said “I am certainly not aware of any convincing evidence for the hypothesis of a link between MMR and autism”. The Canadian Paediatric Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences,[9] and the UK National Health Service[10] have all concluded that there is no evidence of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and a 2011 journal article described the vaccine-autism connection as “the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years”.”
I’ll get the MMR