Re: There IS a link between the MMR jab and autism, claims new research
From: David Wright (wright_at_clam.prodigy.net)
Date: 08/31/04
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:46:39 GMT
In article <4132bbe1$0$15053$61c65585@uq-127creek-reader-02.brisbane.pipenetworks.com.au>,
Peter Moran <moringa@gil.com.au> wrote:
>
>"john" <nospamoridiots@vaccine.com> wrote in message
>news:cgsbt4$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.
>>
>> 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.
No, but there is a bigger problem -- given that MMR was introduced
over quite a short period and went from something unavailable to
something used almost universally within a few years, the idea of a
14.8% compounded annual rise makes no sense at all. If MMR really
caused autism, there would have been a huge spike in autism in the
first few years after the vaccine was introduced, and it would have
been pretty much level since then.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
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