The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine

JamJam writes "The Lancet, a major British medical journal, has retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease. British surgeon and medical researcher Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues originally released their study in 1998. Since then 10 of Wakefield's 13 co-authors have renounced the study's conclusions and The Lancet has said it should never have published the research. Wakefield now faces being stripped of his right to practice medicine in Britain. The vaccine-autism debate should now end."

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Who are you refering to?

[gd2shoe]

Are you referring to what I wrote, to what ak_hepcat wrote, to what JamJam wrote, or to the original article?

Re:The debate is long from over.

[Dahamma]

Yes, but that same 1% of the population with 10% risk also has a 75.8% risk of dying from measles, mumps, or a severely ingrown hangnail, and can in fact contract all of those from sunlight as well, so it's very dangerous and herd immunity does not apply.

And underdeveloped countries have significantly more dirt and fewer shoes, and as everyone knows lots of dirt and lack of shoes can cause autism.

Wow, this debate gets a LOT more fun when you stop bothering with provable facts. I can see people still keep it up! Thanks!

If everyone actually considered things *objectively*, by definition there wouldn't be loonies and this whole issue would not even be debated.

Re:The debate is long from over.

[keraneuology]

Anybody who thinks that vaccines cause autism in 100% of the cases is wrong. Anybody who thinks that the argument is that autism is *ONLY* caused by vaccines is wrong. You clearly fall into the 2nd camp. In 2007 the federal "vaccine court" found that the MMR vaccination *DID* cause autism in a child by the name of Bailey Banks in that the vaccine caused an inflammation of the brain that led to PPD-NOS. In 2008 this same court found that in the instance of patient Hannah Poling the vaccine caused "autism-like" symptoms by aggravating a pre-existing condition. (Autism-like? If it quacks...) In the vast majority of cases the vaccine is safe - the numbers don't lie. HOWEVER the vaccine appears to be safe if and only if the child is neurotypical and, as there is no incentive, nobody is working on determining just how atypical one must be and in what manner before the vaccines are unsafe. The prevailing attitude is "sit down, shut up, you cannot decide what risks are acceptable for your child, we don't care if it is safe in this particular instance and if it turns out to destroy your family's life then oh well." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-david-kirby/vaccine-court-autism-deba_b_169673.html