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Laura Hewitson has left the University of Pittsburgh

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Laura Hewitson is the lead researcher on a series of studies on comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated macaque monkeys. This work became public first in the 2008 IMFAR conference. At that time and since, the work from these studies has been strongly criticized. Dr. David Gorski of Science Based Medicine discussed those abstracts. It is very [...]

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The genie is out of the bottle. Part II – more genies, more bottles

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Was it any surprise that the journal that published the recent Hewitson stinker did so? Not really. Straight from the opening lines of the Editorial the direction this journals ‘science’ would take was clear: This issue of Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis is fully devoted to the issues of autism. The idea for this topic came from [...]

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From IMFAR to Poland: how a monkey study can totally change

Friday, July 16th, 2010

I just blogged about a new paper “proving” once again that vaccines cause autism. This is a paper from Mr. Wakefield’s team. Thanks to a link provided by KWombles of the Countering Age of Autism blog, we can compare the current paper to what the authors claimed two years ago. Here is the new paper [...]

Posted in Autism, Laura Hewitson, MMR, Mercury, Thoughtful House, Vaccines, Wakefield | 7 Comments »

The genie is out of the bottle: vaccines cause autism

Friday, July 16th, 2010

That’s what you will read if you check out discussions of a new paper, Influence of pediatric vaccines on amygdala growth and opioid ligand binding in rhesus macaque infants: A pilot study, by L. Hewitson, B. Lopresti, C. Stott, N.S. Mason, and J. Tomko. If you are wondering, yes, that is the same Laura Hewitson [...]

Posted in Autism, Laura Hewitson, MMR, Mercury, Thimerosal, Vaccines, Wakefield | 31 Comments »