Look what has surfaced once again.
Autism-vaccine study was 'fraud' says journal
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Blamed for a disastrous boycott of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in Britain, the study was retracted by The Lancet last year and Wakefield was disgraced on the grounds of conflict of financial interest and unethical treatment of some children involved in the research.
They even address the MMR vaccine (that's where you get all 3 at once).
Some of the parents of the children used in the initial study have even spoken out against its findings as fraudulent:
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Child 11 was among the eight whose parents apparently blamed MMR. The interval between his vaccination and the first “behavioural symptom” was reported as 1 week. This symptom was said to have appeared at age 15 months. But his father, whom I had tracked down, said this was wrong.
“From the information you provided me on our son, who I was shocked to hear had been included in their published study,” he wrote to me, after we met again in California, “the data clearly appeared to be distorted.”
He backed his concerns with medical records, including a Royal Free discharge summary. Although the family lived 5000 miles from the hospital, in February 1997 the boy (then aged 5) had been flown to London and admitted for Wakefield’s project, the undisclosed goal of which was to help sue the vaccine’s manufacturers.
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That put the first symptom two months earlier than reported in the Lancet, and a month before the boy received the MMR vaccination. And this was not the only anomaly to catch the father’s eye. What the paper reported as a “behavioural symptom” was noted in the records as a chest infection.
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Both child 4 and child 8 were among the eight whose parents were reported to have blamed the vaccine. But although the paper specified that all 12 children were “previously normal,”61 both had developmental delays, and also facial dysmorphisms, noted before MMR vaccination.
Source BMJ
So thanks to this *** Wakefield: (from the first article)
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The BMJ charged that hundreds of thousands of children in Britain are now unshielded against these three diseases. In 2008, measles was declared endemic, or present in the wider population much like chicken pox, in England and Wales.
Way to bring back old diseases.
See how I quote a reputable site such as the
BMJ (British Medical Journal).
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BMJ is an advocate of evidence-based medicine. It publishes original research as well as clinical reviews, news, editorial perspectives, personal views, and career focus articles, among others.
Translation: It's not some crackpot trying to scare people by making some website with no evidence, peer reviews, or doctors to examine any findings.