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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe research linking autism to vaccines is even more bogus than you think
In 1998, an esteemed medical journal published a paper with a startling conclusion: that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine administered to millions of children across the globe each year could cause autism.
This study, led by the discredited physician-researcher Andrew Wakefield, is where the current vaccine-autism debate started. It has since been thoroughly eviscerated: The Lancet retracted the paper, investigators have described the research as an "elaborate fraud," and Wakefield has lost his medical license.
But public-health experts say that Wakefield's false data and erroneous conclusions, while resoundingly rejected in the academic world, still drive some parents' current worries about the MMR shot.
Here are five reasons and many links to further reading that should remind you just how terrible his research was.
Much more: http://www.vox.com/2015/2/2/7965885/the-research-linking-autism-to-vaccines-is-even-more-terrible-than
I wish they could be prosecuted.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)enlightenment
(8,830 posts)and was stunned. I knew it was bad - I just didn't realize how bad. Wakefield and his cronies who co-wrote that paper should have been tossed in prison. The editors' of the Lancet should have had their collective asses handed to them for allowing the article to remain for eleven years after it was debunked.
salin
(48,955 posts)Creates a Woo ... Pushes fraudulent research... while filing patents to create "an alternative" vaccination(s)... so he could become filthy rich.
I highly recommed people read the linked story.
Thanks for posting it.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Those who believe her behave as though the 'wisdom' she spews is directly from the burning bush.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Tenpenny
If you're seeing a lot of things that seem like they're pure bullshit, she's most likely the original source. If antivaxers seem like a cult to you (the antivaxers that I interact with on Facebook behave like a cult) she is their cult leader.