The link between MMR and Autism gets more dubious
Posted
July 16, 2007 at
9:41 am by
Jessica
Today marks a major blow to the many parents claiming that vaccinations, namely the MMR, is linked to autism, once again confirming that you can’t base truth on lack of evidence.
One of the most outspoken opponents to the MMR, and of which his expert claims gave many parents cause for concern, is facing many accounts of professional misconduct. So many, in fact, that I’ll decline to list them all here.
I think parents who insist on a linkage between vaccines and autism without hard evidence need to take a moment of reflection and ask themselves, why is it so important to blame someone and why do those accusations happen to fall upon a multi-billion dollar industry? In other words, you can’t sue oxygen, cultural patterns or genetics, can you?
The doctor who sparked the MMR controversy paid children £5 to take their blood samples at his son’s birthday party, a disciplinary panel heard today.
Dr Andrew Wakefield is accused of showing “callous disregard for the distress and pain” he knew or ought to have known the children might suffer as a result of his actions.
He is also accused of abusing his position of trust and bringing the medical profession into disrepute.
The article goes on to say:
One of the charges he faces is failing to disclose he was paid by solicitors to do separate research for parents who said their children were harmed by the jab.
It is also alleged that he broke the hospital’s ethical rules by subjecting the children to unnecessary medical examinations and “abused his position of trust” by taking blood samples from children at a birthday party. Read the rest…
A list of MMR and Autsim evidence and Dr. Wakefields interests in chronological order:
March 1998
A panel of experts convened by the Medical Research Council on Government orders says there is “no evidence” of a link between the MMR jab and bowel disease or autism.A total of 37 researchers reviewed the available evidence and said there was no reason to change the current MMR vaccination policy. The panel comprised experts in virology, epidemiology, gastroenterology, immunology, paediatrics, autism, and child psychiatry.
April 1998
A long-term study from Finland, published in The Lancet, finds no evidence of autism being associated with MMR.Of three million children given the combined jab, 31 youngsters were found to have developed gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhoea and vomiting within 15 days of the injection. But their symptoms generally lasted no more than a week.
None of the 31 children developed any signs of autism or any similar condition, the researchers said. Read the rest…
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1. Petulant Pixie said:
July 16, 2007 @ 10:05 am
Personally, I think that delaying the recommended age for receiving the MMR until after autism is typically diagnosed would go a long way in proving the lack of a connection between the two.
My 8 year-old didn’t receive her MMR until she was 3. I intend to do the same with my 2 y.o., just because. My pediatrician supports this decision, I haven’t received any resistance at all in making that choice. At 26 months, really, if she had any autistic markers, they’d show up by now, and she doesn’t. If at 3, she does suddenly begin to exhibit behaviors related to the condition after receiving the vaccination, then that would be very suspicious. Doctors ought to be documenting kids’ development in detail during this critical time and the vaccination should be delayed to eliminate ANY correlation between the two. I realize that the common argument for not doing this is that it puts children at risk for getting the measles during that delay, but it seems there should be a risk/benefit analysis happening here, where the bigger good would be to eliminate the correlation so that more kids would get the vaccine on the whole.
I’ve been on the vaccine merry-go-round for too long to put complete trust in the recommendations. They’ve changed too many times. Vaccines that were once considered totally ineffective (the killed polio) are now the standard recommendation. A vaccine that was considered totally safe (the Hep B in 1999) was pulled ONE WEEK after my daughter received it per her pediatrician’s assurance that it was perfectly safe for infants. The composition was altered and it was again put out as safe for infants in a different form. I understand the AMA’s responsibility on a global scale, but for me, my responsibility is to ensure the safety of my individual kids.