Re: There IS a link between the MMR jab and autism, claims new research

From: Peter Moran (moringa_at_gil.com.au)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:41:35 +1000

"john" <nospamoridiots@vaccine.com> wrote in message
news:cgsbt4$j2i$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> Mail on Sunday
> 29 August 2004
>
> There IS a link between the MMR jab and autism, claims new research
>
> EXCLUSIVE
> By Rachel Ellis, Medical Correspondent
>
> A key study repeatedly used by the Government to support the MMR vaccine
> was wrongly carried out and gave inaccurate results, experts claimed
> yesterday.
>
> The Danish research, which examined the medical records of more than
> half-a-million children born over eight years, concluded there was no link
> between children given MMR and the onset of autism.
>
> But fresh analysis of the data by four experts to be published this week
in
> the Journal of
> American Physicians and Surgeons suggest there is a link.
>
> The first new study, by Dr Samy Suissa, an epidemiologist at McGill
> University,
> Montreal, who looked at the same data the Danish doctors used, concludes
> that children who received the triple jab were 45 per cent more likely to
> develop autism than those who were not given it.

That would be against MMR being a major cause of autism. In such
epidemiological studies a 45% difference would not be regarded as
necessarily significant. What were the 95% confidence limits?

>
> A second piece of research - by Dr Fouad Yazbak, an American paediatrician
> - shows a 400
> per cent rise in autism after the introduction of MMR in Denmark, even
> after taking into account greater awareness of the condition.

Wouldn't that mean all Denmark's children have autism?

>
> And a third study by Dr Andrew Wakefield, who first made the link between
> MMR
> and autism in 1998, and Dr Carol Stott of Cambridge University, shows
> autism cases in Denmark have increased by 14.8 per cent each year since
MMR
> was introduced.

Wakefield is now known to be employed by the parents of children with
autism, and it would also mean by now that everyone in Denmark is autistic.

<snip>
> A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said the original Danish study
> had been reviewed by the Institute of Medicine in Washington and no
> problems had
> been raised about the validity of the data.
>
> She added: "There have been many other studies that have come to the same
> conclusion - that there is no link between MMR and autism."

Why not say that at the beginning?

Peter Moran

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