Binstock comments on Psychology Today Blog on Wakefield MMR

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My comment at Psychology Today:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/radical-behaviorist/201002/the-autism-vaccines-myth-the-impact-the-media/comments

Autism & vaccinations

Submitted by Binstock on February 9, 2010 - 9:03am.

The original findings of enterocolitis in many but not all autistic

children has been replicated several times (eg, 1-3). Furthermore, a

month after Wakefield et al was published in The Lancet (Feb 1998), the

journal Pediatrics published a study reporting that among various

vaccines related to mumps, measles, and rubella, the MMR was by far the

most likely to induce neurologic damage or even death (4). The abstract

of that study is available free online and merits perusal, as does the

whole-text article (4). Wakefield et al's speculation about a possible

autism-MMR connection was not as far afield as The Lancet retraction

would have us believe. Furthermore, two newer studies have documented

associations between HepB vaccinations and autism and also the need for

special education services (5-6).

1. Enterocolitis in children with developmental disorders

Am J Gastroenterol. 2000 Sep;95(9):2285-95.

2. Autistic enterocolitis: Fact or fiction?

{excellent, brief overview}

Can J Gastroenterol. 2009 Feb;23(2):95-8.

http://www.pulsus.com/journals/abstract.jsp?sCurrPg=journal & jnlKy=2 & atlKy=8619 & isuKy=837 & isArt=t

3. Clinical Presentation and Histologic Findings at Ileocolonoscopy in

Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Chronic Gastrointestinal

Symptoms

Autism Insights 2010:2 1-11; 27 Jan 2010

http://www.la-press.com/clinical-presentation-and-histologic-findings-at-ileocolonoscopy-in-ch-a1816

4. Acute Encephalopathy Followed by Permanent Brain Injury or Death

Associated With Further Attenuated Measles Vaccines: A Review of Claims

Submitted to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

E. Weibel et al.

Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation, National Vaccine Injury

Compensation Program, Health Resources and Services Administration,

Public Health Service, Rockville, land; and the DaggerOffice of the

General Counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services,

Rockville, land.

PEDIATRICS Vol. 101 No. 3 March 1998, pp. 383-387

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/101/3/383

5. Hepatitis B triple series vaccine and developmental disability in US

children aged 1-9 years

Gallagher C, Goodman M. Toxicol Environ Chem 2008

90(5):997-1008.

{free online}

http://fourteenstudies.org/pdf/hep_b.pdf

" The odds of receiving EIS were approximately nine times as great

for vaccinated boys... as for unvaccinated boys..., after adjustment for

confounders. "

6. Hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and autism

[conference abstract as published]

CM Gallagher, MS Goodman, Graduate Program in Public

Health, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY

ls of Epidemiology, p659

Vol. 19, No. 9 Abstracts (ACE) September 2009: 651–680

" Findings suggest that U.S. male neonates vaccinated with hepatitis

B vaccine had a 3-fold greater risk of ASD; risk was greatest for

non-white boys. "

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