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		<title>By: Andrew</title>
		<link>http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2009/07/wakefield-distortion-and-the-sunday-times/#comment-352143</link>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I’m not going to change the minds of sociopaths.  I was aware of that since the day I read the callous illogical rants and taunts from many persons here. I will stand and remind everyone of the pain and hopelessness to which you help condemn innocent children and their families. This will reach some of you, but not the majority, who will lash out with a vicious venom disregarding the lives lost to the shadow-world of regressive autism.&quot;

I wonder if you&#039;ll ever realize how deep your hypocrisy is; you take advantage of the openness of this blog to spew your lies, trusting that the blog-owners will allow it to remain visible to all, while anti-health blogs like AOA boast that they censor all opposing views, to protect their readers from hearing any facts that might unsettle their preconceptions.  I hope that when you realize how vile your behavior has been, that you can forgive yourself.  Meanwhile, stay away from our children with your lies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to change the minds of sociopaths.  I was aware of that since the day I read the callous illogical rants and taunts from many persons here. I will stand and remind everyone of the pain and hopelessness to which you help condemn innocent children and their families. This will reach some of you, but not the majority, who will lash out with a vicious venom disregarding the lives lost to the shadow-world of regressive autism.&#8221;</p>
<p>I wonder if you&#8217;ll ever realize how deep your hypocrisy is; you take advantage of the openness of this blog to spew your lies, trusting that the blog-owners will allow it to remain visible to all, while anti-health blogs like <span class="caps">AOA</span> boast that they censor all opposing views, to protect their readers from hearing any facts that might unsettle their preconceptions.  I hope that when you realize how vile your behavior has been, that you can forgive yourself.  Meanwhile, stay away from our children with your lies.</p>
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		<title>By: A Verdict on the Vaccination Boogeyman &#124; BlogHer &#124; Sophrosyne Life</title>
		<link>http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2009/07/wakefield-distortion-and-the-sunday-times/#comment-351575</link>
		<dc:creator>A Verdict on the Vaccination Boogeyman &#124; BlogHer &#124; Sophrosyne Life</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] gone on the offensive, using the media arm of Thoughtful House, his US autism organization, to try to discredit Brian Deer, the journalist whose ongoing research first revealed the extent of Wakefield&#8217;s questionable [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Oriel</title>
		<link>http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2009/07/wakefield-distortion-and-the-sunday-times/#comment-80612</link>
		<dc:creator>Oriel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The decision to &quot;terminate funding&quot; by the LSC for the MMR claimants was based on the fact that there was no EVIDENCE to support a causal link between the MMR vaccine and ASD. If there had been, the lawyers would not have advised that they could not make a case, the LSC would not have removed funding, and the entire matter would have progressed to trial.
The arguments lodged by the claimants to support the claims that the MMR had caused autism had to contain sound scientific evidence to support the explanations for how the MMR when given to children, then went on and caused them to be autistic. Clearly that couldn&#039;t be done.
If any party could be said to have left Glaxo &quot;free and clear of blame&quot; it was the experts appointed by the lawyers who used up  public money on investigative research which failed the children miserably by not providing adequate proof of a link between the MMR and autism, allowing the case to go to trial. An article from the Sunday Times March 7 2004 by Brian Deer highlights how John O&#039; Leary of Unigenetics Ltd, hired by the lawyers to carry out the testing of samples, was forced to admit in a letter to the Sunday Times, that his findings &quot;did not support the MMR/autism hypothesis&quot;

 It wasn&#039;t the Court, the LSC, FRC or the Defendants who said the case couldn&#039;t be brought to trial, but the Claimants own legal team when they admitted that as things stood, there was no prospects of success and with O&#039;leary&#039;s findings, it wasn&#039;t hard to see why.

Faced with that unsavoury set of circumstances who would argue that it was unjust for the LSC to remove the funding or for the FRC to uphold their reasons for doing so? The FRC said by Michael to have &quot;refused to continue to support investigation into MMR as a cause of autism&quot; could hardly find the LSC wrong in their decision to remove funding when they had been advised by the claimants own legal team that their case had no prospects of success.
Lord Taverne hit the nail on the head when in 2004 he said of the MMR litigation &quot;After 10 years and the expenditure of more than £15 million, not surprisingly, no evidence has emerged to provide a prima facie case. Earlier this year, the Legal Services Commission withdrew support and declared that the failure to find evidence meant that the case was very likely to fail. It also observed that aid should never have been granted , because the courts are not the place to prove new medical truths&quot;.

Lord Taverne further stated that&quot; From the start it was a disgrace that legal aid was ever granted. The so-called research was, and always was likely to be, a farce&quot;. (Hansard 16 June 2004 Column 789)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The decision to &#8220;terminate funding&#8221; by the <span class="caps">LSC</span> for the <span class="caps">MMR</span> claimants was based on the fact that there was no <span class="caps">EVIDENCE</span> to support a causal link between the <span class="caps">MMR</span> vaccine and <span class="caps">ASD</span>. If there had been, the lawyers would not have advised that they could not make a case, the <span class="caps">LSC</span> would not have removed funding, and the entire matter would have progressed to trial.<br />
The arguments lodged by the claimants to support the claims that the <span class="caps">MMR</span> had caused autism had to contain sound scientific evidence to support the explanations for how the <span class="caps">MMR</span> when given to children, then went on and caused them to be autistic. Clearly that couldn&#8217;t be done.<br />
If any party could be said to have left Glaxo &#8220;free and clear of blame&#8221; it was the experts appointed by the lawyers who used up  public money on investigative research which failed the children miserably by not providing adequate proof of a link between the <span class="caps">MMR</span> and autism, allowing the case to go to trial. An article from the Sunday Times March 7 2004 by Brian Deer highlights how John O&#8217; Leary of Unigenetics Ltd, hired by the lawyers to carry out the testing of samples, was forced to admit in a letter to the Sunday Times, that his findings &#8220;did not support the <span class="caps">MMR</span>/autism hypothesis&#8221;</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t the Court, the <span class="caps">LSC</span>, FRC or the Defendants who said the case couldn&#8217;t be brought to trial, but the Claimants own legal team when they admitted that as things stood, there was no prospects of success and with O&#8217;leary&#8217;s findings, it wasn&#8217;t hard to see why.</p>
<p>Faced with that unsavoury set of circumstances who would argue that it was unjust for the <span class="caps">LSC</span> to remove the funding or for the <span class="caps">FRC</span> to uphold their reasons for doing so? The <span class="caps">FRC</span> said by Michael to have &#8220;refused to continue to support investigation into <span class="caps">MMR</span> as a cause of autism&#8221; could hardly find the <span class="caps">LSC</span> wrong in their decision to remove funding when they had been advised by the claimants own legal team that their case had no prospects of success.<br />
Lord Taverne hit the nail on the head when in 2004 he said of the <span class="caps">MMR</span> litigation &#8220;After 10 years and the expenditure of more than &#163;15 million, not surprisingly, no evidence has emerged to provide a prima facie case. Earlier this year, the Legal Services Commission withdrew support and declared that the failure to find evidence meant that the case was very likely to fail. It also observed that aid should never have been granted , because the courts are not the place to prove new medical truths&#8221;.</p>
<p>Lord Taverne further stated that&#8221; From the start it was a disgrace that legal aid was ever granted. The so-called research was, and always was likely to be, a farce&#8221;. (Hansard 16 June 2004 Column 789)</p>
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		<title>By: Julian Frost</title>
		<link>http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2009/07/wakefield-distortion-and-the-sunday-times/#comment-80602</link>
		<dc:creator>Julian Frost</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@michael0156: &quot;I am not going to change the minds of Sociopaths&quot;.
With that one remark, you show that you are not interested in debating the issue, and simply attack anyone with a different opinion.
&quot;[S]ince the day I read the callous illogical rants and taunts...&quot;
Hello pot, meet kettle.
You also attack the court rulings but fail to give Reasons why they are flawed. As to your comments about toxins, seafood is very good for brain development, but it contains mercury. Breastmilk contains aluminium. It is impossible to remove all toxins even from food. I don&#039;t know what you mean by a &quot;toxin free&quot; vaccine schedule. I suspect that it would be impossible.
If you want to be taken seriously, do what dejd and Laurentius Rex asked you to do and back up your claims with EVIDENCE.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@michael0156: &#8220;I am not going to change the minds of Sociopaths&#8221;.<br />
With that one remark, you show that you are not interested in debating the issue, and simply attack anyone with a different opinion.<br />
&#8220;[S]ince the day I read the callous illogical rants and taunts&#8230;&#8221;<br />
Hello pot, meet kettle.<br />
You also attack the court rulings but fail to give Reasons why they are flawed. As to your comments about toxins, seafood is very good for brain development, but it contains mercury. Breastmilk contains aluminium. It is impossible to remove all toxins even from food. I don&#8217;t know what you mean by a &#8220;toxin free&#8221; vaccine schedule. I suspect that it would be impossible.<br />
If you want to be taken seriously, do what dejd and Laurentius Rex asked you to do and back up your claims with <span class="caps">EVIDENCE</span>.</p>
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		<title>By: michael0156</title>
		<link>http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2009/07/wakefield-distortion-and-the-sunday-times/#comment-80598</link>
		<dc:creator>michael0156</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;However, this litigation is very unlikely to prove their suspicions.&quot; This is how Clare Dodgsen, in 2003, dismissed parents belief that MMR causes autism and thereby pulled funding from the investigation. This of course allows the statute of limitations to run out leaving Glaxo free and clear of blame, for that crop of victims.

The Legal Services Commission, according to Brian Deer (Big Pharma shill), has given over all of the investigative materials to the Medical Research Council. The MRC, in the latest report before the LSC decision to withdraw funding, is of the opinion the causes of autism &quot;remain, to a large extent, unidentified&quot; This decision to terminate funding was made by the LSC less than 6 months before the trials against Glaxo were to begin.

The solicitors appealed, remaining firmly convinced that MMR causes autism. First, the Funding Review Committee refused to continue to support investigation into MMR as a cause of autism, then Judge Nigel Davis dismisses the appeal to force the LSC to continue MMR research funding. Judge Davis is the brother of Glaxo director Crispin Davis, who was also CEO of Elsevier which owns The Lancet.

So with the solicitors ready to go to trial and the Medical Review Committee unable to offer any clue as to what causes autism, the LSC decided that vaccines are not the cause and cannot ever be proved to be the cause.

This kind of heinous illogical reasoning and behavior is what people like you on this blog support as the correct path to take. While millions more kids become victims of our efforts to protect them, the LSC denies the only obvious correlation to autism, which is vaccines.

Dedj once posted -
&quot;Some of the people here are primary care givers for autistic or otherwise disabled children and adults.
Some of the people here are autistic adults, some with additional disabilities.
Some of the people here are professionals or paraprofessionals involved in autism care.
Some of the people here are academics or researchers in autism studies.
Some of us are, or have been some or all or the above&quot;

Little of that is believable, as most of the people on this blog blindly support Big Pharma&#039;s position on the vaccine autism issue and care little for the kids with regressive autism or those who will be rendered autistic in the future.  

Toxin free vaccines should be used in independent clinical trials to resolve the autism issue. Anything less is unacceptable, unethical and unscientific. The mass of manipulated epidemiology used to hide the truth is well known by the people on this blog. In spite of their dishonest calls for the production of evidence, they know the evidence.  They are practiced at denying it, disseminating mis-information, deflecting or merely lying.  This defines their sociopathic behavior... The deliberate actions of avoidance and obfuscation that result in hurting and killing children while tens of millions are burdened to a degree I believe that most on this blog could not face.

I&#039;m not going to change the minds of sociopaths. I was aware of that since the day I read the callous illogical rants and taunts from many persons here. I will stand and remind everyone of the pain and hopelessness to which you help condemn innocent children and their families. This will reach some of you, but not the majority, who will lash out with a vicious venom disregarding the lives lost to the shadow-world of regressive autism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;However, this litigation is very unlikely to prove their suspicions.&#8221; This is how Clare Dodgsen, in 2003, dismissed parents belief that <span class="caps">MMR</span> causes autism and thereby pulled funding from the investigation. This of course allows the statute of limitations to run out leaving Glaxo free and clear of blame, for that crop of victims.</p>
<p>The Legal Services Commission, according to Brian Deer (Big Pharma shill), has given over all of the investigative materials to the Medical Research Council. The <span class="caps">MRC</span>, in the latest report before the <span class="caps">LSC</span> decision to withdraw funding, is of the opinion the causes of autism &#8220;remain, to a large extent, unidentified&#8221; This decision to terminate funding was made by the <span class="caps">LSC</span> less than 6 months before the trials against Glaxo were to begin.</p>
<p>The solicitors appealed, remaining firmly convinced that <span class="caps">MMR</span> causes autism. First, the Funding Review Committee refused to continue to support investigation into <span class="caps">MMR</span> as a cause of autism, then Judge Nigel Davis dismisses the appeal to force the <span class="caps">LSC</span> to continue <span class="caps">MMR</span> research funding. Judge Davis is the brother of Glaxo director Crispin Davis, who was also <span class="caps">CEO</span> of Elsevier which owns The Lancet.</p>
<p>So with the solicitors ready to go to trial and the Medical Review Committee unable to offer any clue as to what causes autism, the <span class="caps">LSC</span> decided that vaccines are not the cause and cannot ever be proved to be the cause.</p>
<p>This kind of heinous illogical reasoning and behavior is what people like you on this blog support as the correct path to take. While millions more kids become victims of our efforts to protect them, the <span class="caps">LSC</span> denies the only obvious correlation to autism, which is vaccines.</p>
<p>Dedj once posted &#8211; &#8220;Some of the people here are primary care givers for autistic or otherwise disabled children and adults.<br />
Some of the people here are autistic adults, some with additional disabilities.<br />
Some of the people here are professionals or paraprofessionals involved in autism care.<br />
Some of the people here are academics or researchers in autism studies.<br />
Some of us are, or have been some or all or the above&#8221;</p>
<p>Little of that is believable, as most of the people on this blog blindly support Big Pharma&#8217;s position on the vaccine autism issue and care little for the kids with regressive autism or those who will be rendered autistic in the future.</p>
<p>Toxin free vaccines should be used in independent clinical trials to resolve the autism issue. Anything less is unacceptable, unethical and unscientific. The mass of manipulated epidemiology used to hide the truth is well known by the people on this blog. In spite of their dishonest calls for the production of evidence, they know the evidence.  They are practiced at denying it, disseminating mis-information, deflecting or merely lying.  This defines their sociopathic behavior&#8230; The deliberate actions of avoidance and obfuscation that result in hurting and killing children while tens of millions are burdened to a degree I believe that most on this blog could not face.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to change the minds of sociopaths. I was aware of that since the day I read the callous illogical rants and taunts from many persons here. I will stand and remind everyone of the pain and hopelessness to which you help condemn innocent children and their families. This will reach some of you, but not the majority, who will lash out with a vicious venom disregarding the lives lost to the shadow-world of regressive autism.</p>
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		<title>By: Oriel</title>
		<link>http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2009/07/wakefield-distortion-and-the-sunday-times/#comment-79447</link>
		<dc:creator>Oriel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michael

What &quot;ended the UK MMR litigation&quot; was an acknowledgement by the claimants QC&#039;s that as things stood, they couldn&#039;t bring a case to show a causal link between the MMR and ASD and the Legal Services Commission removed funding. Why do you and many others like you find it difficult to accept that &#039;no case&#039; means &#039;no cash&#039;? How could any appeal judge irrespective of his family connections, order the LSC to reinstate funding for the child litigants when their own lawyers were standing there saying that they couldn&#039;t make a case for them?. That&#039;s just crazy.

What really ended the MMR litigation was the fact that despite the millions invested in the case by the LSC,the experts chosen by the childrens own lawyers could not provide the goods to support a claim that the MMR caused ASD, on their behalf.

The claims were dependant on individual experts, including Dr Wakefield, being able to provide research, evidence and sound argument to prove a causal link between the MMR vaccine and the childrens conditions. Clearly they could not do that since the legal team were forced to admit they had no case to bring and that&#039;s what ended the MMR litigation. 

With Dr Wakefield and many of his followers now trumpeting the fact that he never said there was a link between the MMR and autism,it&#039;s questionable what possible merit there was in him being an expert witness for these children in the first place.He was clearly never going to implicate the MMR vaccine as causing autism in his expert reports. The claims were entirely dependant on experts being able to do just that, so it&#039;s little wonder the litigation collapsed and the children lost out big time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael</p>
<p>What &#8220;ended the <span class="caps">UK MMR</span> litigation&#8221; was an acknowledgement by the claimants QC&#8217;s that as things stood, they couldn&#8217;t bring a case to show a causal link between the <span class="caps">MMR</span> and <span class="caps">ASD</span> and the Legal Services Commission removed funding. Why do you and many others like you find it difficult to accept that &#8216;no case&#8217; means &#8216;no cash&#8217;? How could any appeal judge irrespective of his family connections, order the <span class="caps">LSC</span> to reinstate funding for the child litigants when their own lawyers were standing there saying that they couldn&#8217;t make a case for them?. That&#8217;s just crazy.</p>
<p>What really ended the <span class="caps">MMR</span> litigation was the fact that despite the millions invested in the case by the <span class="caps">LSC</span>,the experts chosen by the childrens own lawyers could not provide the goods to support a claim that the <span class="caps">MMR</span> caused <span class="caps">ASD</span>, on their behalf.</p>
<p>The claims were dependant on individual experts, including Dr Wakefield, being able to provide research, evidence and sound argument to prove a causal link between the <span class="caps">MMR</span> vaccine and the childrens conditions. Clearly they could not do that since the legal team were forced to admit they had no case to bring and that&#8217;s what ended the <span class="caps">MMR</span> litigation.</p>
<p>With Dr Wakefield and many of his followers now trumpeting the fact that he never said there was a link between the <span class="caps">MMR</span> and autism,it&#8217;s questionable what possible merit there was in him being an expert witness for these children in the first place.He was clearly never going to implicate the <span class="caps">MMR</span> vaccine as causing autism in his expert reports. The claims were entirely dependant on experts being able to do just that, so it&#8217;s little wonder the litigation collapsed and the children lost out big time.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Stanton</title>
		<link>http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2009/07/wakefield-distortion-and-the-sunday-times/#comment-79402</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stanton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have no time for Michael&#039;s nonsense. I am too busy reading this. http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/node/5026</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have no time for Michael&#8217;s nonsense. I am too busy reading this. <a href="http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/node/5026" rel="nofollow">http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/node/5026</a></p>
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		<title>By: Dedj</title>
		<link>http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2009/07/wakefield-distortion-and-the-sunday-times/#comment-79398</link>
		<dc:creator>Dedj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Micheal, you have no idea whether I &#039;address the issues&#039; or not, and you are still wrongly conflating taking issue with your attitude and behaviour as somehow refusing to deal with the issues.

You still don&#039;t get it. You have demanded a level and quality of debate that has been entirely absent from all of your posts. You have yet again provided us with a mish-mash post with zero substantiation and zero references, yet plenty of insults.

You have been asked - repeatedly, by several people - to put your money where you mouth is and meet your own imposed standards of debate. You have failed yourself at every turn, yet still demand we answer your issues, even though you have failed to substantiate them at all.

You have failed to address any of the concerns with the opening post being on a month old thread and woefully off topic, you have failed to addresss any concerns regarding your habit of freely casting about insults and accusations, and you have failed to address any of the concerns regarding your inability to meet your own standards of debate.

Just because you think you have a point, that doesn&#039;t make it our responsibility to prove you wrong. Substantiating your claims is your responsiblity.

You have failed in that. You have no right to demand of others what you have failed - despite direct repeated requests that are derived from your own demands - to provide.

You will provide at least &#039;2 pieces of evidence&#039; from peer reviewed sources for each and every one of your claims in your next few posts. No other response will be acknowledged. Failure will be pointed out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Micheal, you have no idea whether I &#8216;address the issues&#8217; or not, and you are still wrongly conflating taking issue with your attitude and behaviour as somehow refusing to deal with the issues.</p>
<p>You still don&#8217;t get it. You have demanded a level and quality of debate that has been entirely absent from all of your posts. You have yet again provided us with a mish-mash post with zero substantiation and zero references, yet plenty of insults.</p>
<p>You have been asked &#8211; repeatedly, by several people &#8211; to put your money where you mouth is and meet your own imposed standards of debate. You have failed yourself at every turn, yet still demand we answer your issues, even though you have failed to substantiate them at all.</p>
<p>You have failed to address any of the concerns with the opening post being on a month old thread and woefully off topic, you have failed to addresss any concerns regarding your habit of freely casting about insults and accusations, and you have failed to address any of the concerns regarding your inability to meet your own standards of debate.</p>
<p>Just because you think you have a point, that doesn&#8217;t make it our responsibility to prove you wrong. Substantiating your claims is your responsiblity.</p>
<p>You have failed in that. You have no right to demand of others what you have failed &#8211; despite direct repeated requests that are derived from your own demands &#8211; to provide.</p>
<p>You will provide at least &#8216;2 pieces of evidence&#8217; from peer reviewed sources for each and every one of your claims in your next few posts. No other response will be acknowledged. Failure will be pointed out.</p>
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		<title>By: Joseph</title>
		<link>http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2009/07/wakefield-distortion-and-the-sunday-times/#comment-79396</link>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Only one of you attempted to test the waters with a blatantly manipulated study from Thompson.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Told you so. All hat, no cattle. He thinks using the adjective &quot;manipulated&quot; is an argument worth considering.</description>
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<blockquote>Only one of you attempted to test the waters with a blatantly manipulated study from Thompson.</p></blockquote>
<p>Told you so. All hat, no cattle. He thinks using the adjective &#8220;manipulated&#8221; is an argument worth considering.</p>
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		<title>By: Sullivan</title>
		<link>http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2009/07/wakefield-distortion-and-the-sunday-times/#comment-79388</link>
		<dc:creator>Sullivan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;dedj should stop wasting everyone&#039;s time, including the children and families affected by autism.&quot;

Michael,  I don&#039;t recall giving you permission to speak for my autistic child.

That said, I will state that from my point of view, it is the vaccine-autism groups that have wasted HUGE amounts of time and HUGE amounts of money and HUGE quantities of well being for autism families.

If you want to go places and question the diagnoses of adult autistics, find other blogs. There are plenty that will welcome you.  

There is no &quot;regressive type&quot; of autism.  Regression appears to be a continuum--with some children undergoing much larger amounts of regression than others.  And, yet, when they watch baby sibs closely, they find much less regression than when they rely on parent reports.  Why is that, do you suppose?

If you want to make statements like &quot;Asperger&#039;s is not autism&quot; be advised that it only demonstrates your own ignorance.

If you have a good argument for how vaccines cause autism, please contact the Petitioner&#039;s Steering Committee.  They spent millions of dollars of the taxpayers&#039; money and put together the best cases they could--and failed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;dedj should stop wasting everyone&#8217;s time, including the children and families affected by autism.&#8221;</p>
<p>Michael,  I don&#8217;t recall giving you permission to speak for my autistic child.</p>
<p>That said, I will state that from my point of view, it is the vaccine-autism groups that have wasted <span class="caps">HUGE</span> amounts of time and <span class="caps">HUGE</span> amounts of money and <span class="caps">HUGE</span> quantities of well being for autism families.</p>
<p>If you want to go places and question the diagnoses of adult autistics, find other blogs. There are plenty that will welcome you.</p>
<p>There is no &#8220;regressive type&#8221; of autism.  Regression appears to be a continuum&#8212;with some children undergoing much larger amounts of regression than others.  And, yet, when they watch baby sibs closely, they find much less regression than when they rely on parent reports.  Why is that, do you suppose?</p>
<p>If you want to make statements like &#8220;Asperger&#8217;s is not autism&#8221; be advised that it only demonstrates your own ignorance.</p>
<p>If you have a good argument for how vaccines cause autism, please contact the Petitioner&#8217;s Steering Committee.  They spent millions of dollars of the taxpayers&#8217; money and put together the best cases they could&#8212;and failed.</p>
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