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The Wakefield Rehabilitation? Not really.

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Reading about Andrew Wakefield gets old and tiring. I’m sure that isn’t news to readers here. Writing about Andew Wakefield gets very tiring. Who wants to keep reminding him/her self about a man who has caused so much harm to both the autism communities and public health in general? Who wants to read about dishonesty [...]

Posted in Autism, Autistic Enterocolitis, Ian Lipkin, MMR, Mady Hornig, PLoS, Science, Vaccines, Wakefield | 4 Comments »

No association between early gastrointestinal problems and autistic-like traits in the general population

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Gastrointesintal problems are a common topic of discussion and debate in the online autism communities. Much of the discussion involves causation: do GI problems cause autism? A recent study looks at a tangent of this argument. Considering the general population, do GI problems early in life predict autistic traits later in life? The methodology isn’t [...]

Posted in Autistic Enterocolitis, MMR, Measles, Science, Vaccines | 10 Comments »

GI and autism studies ‘none of these trials appeared to be of high quality’

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

A new paper is due out soon looking at the available literature on GI and autism. The significance of the association between many gastrointestinal (GI) pathologies and autism has yet to be discovered. The aim of the present study was to review available evidence documenting any link between autism and GI histopathology in children I’ve [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Myths, Autistic Enterocolitis, Science | 10 Comments »

Secrets of the MMR scare: How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Last week, Brian Deer published an article in the BMJ How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed. In it he lays out how data were misreported in Andrew Wakefield’s now retracted 1998 article in The Lancet. The BMJ editors published an editorial coincident with the Deer article, Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and [...]

Posted in Autism, Autistic Enterocolitis, Brian Deer, GMC, Legal, MMR, News, Science, Vaccines, Wakefield | 7 Comments »