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Archive for the ‘Wakefield’ Category

Withdrawn Monkey Study paper to re-emerge without Wakefield as an author

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Consider this paper, now withdrawn:

WITHDRAWN: Delayed acquisition of neonatal reflexes in newborn primates receiving a thimerosal-containing Hepatitis B vaccine: Influence of gestational age and birth weight.

Hewitson L, Houser LA, Stott C, Sackett G, Tomko JL, Atwood D, Blue L, White ER, Wakefield AJ.

It was the big “Monkey Study” paper that was accepted for a major [...]

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 [...]

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 of [...]

Andrew Wakefield: a career in pictures

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Those who know about Andrew Wakefield know he worked at the Royal Free Hospital in London. That’s where he did the work on Crohn’s disease and his initial work with autistic children.

When he came to the U.S. he ended up at Thoughtful House in Austin, Texas:

He has since left Thoughtful House, and is now [...]

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