Mixed reaction after autism study termed fraud

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Ugh-- it's interesting how there are yet OTHER studies out there that

directly links these upsurges in these diseases/illnesses to the VAXXED

community!!!

I hate mis-information, but I have to agree with the last paragraph in the

article sent........

Krakow, a Garden City lawyer who represented dozens of families in

a case three years ago that sought to link autism to vaccine, sees Wakefield

as a victim. " You wonder why this focus on him and these misleading

statements - these efforts to tar and feather him. "

I would have to say that I am most in agreement with this statement. I

don't believe for a minute that Wakefield was after money in settlements,

and I don't believe that he had wrong motives or did anything wrong. I think

there's a witch hunt out to get him-- personally speaking.

the proof is in the pudding-- aka-- look at all the damaged children out

there who have been vaxxed, and look at the kids who have not been vaxxed.

I wonder who has the higher % of autism in that community???

Becky

In a message dated 1/7/2011 3:52:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

jbmistletoe@... writes:

Koslap-Petraco, who has also served on the National Vaccine Advisory

Committee, which advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says

there is an upsurge in the United States in cases of whooping cough,

measles, mumps and chickenpox that can be directly linked to avoiding vaccines.

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Mixed reaction after autism study termed fraud

With the publication of new research that declares a 13-year-old study " an

elaborate fraud " for linking autism and bowel disease to the

measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, the division between medical experts and devotees

to the notion has grown deeper and sharper.

In 1998, Dr. Wakefield published a study in The Lancet purporting an

association between the MMR vaccine and the two medical conditions. And while

never stating a direct cause and effect, Wakefield, who has since been stripped

of his British medical license, called on doctors to suspend vaccinating

children with the two-dose vaccine. He now runs a Texas-based institute called

the Thoughtful House Center for Children.

Last year, more than a decade after publishing the medical report, The Lancet

retracted it. Now, in a series of three articles that began this week in the

British Medical Journal, a new investigation reveals the extent of what's being

called a scam behind the vaccine scare.

The reports are written by an investigative journalist who probed the

motivations behind Wakefield's research, an effort that has consumed the past

seven years. Deer reported that Wakefield and a lawyer were probably

co-conspirators who attempted to extort compensation from vaccine makers and

that Wakefield concocted his findings to aid the lawyer's lawsuits against the

companies. Wakefield, who has spoken at autism events on Long Island, did not

return Newsday's calls Thursday.

Heeren of Middle Island, who was key in bringing Wakefield to Long

Island to speak at a conference on autism five years ago, said she is sickened

by reports against a doctor who she says has helped thousands of children. " To

see him dragged through the mud like this is heartbreaking, " said Heeren, the

mother of an 11-year-old son with autism.

But medical experts say Wakefield's research caused thousands of children to go

unvaccinated because of parental fears. Thousands of parents have abandoned

vaccines of all kinds based on junk science notions in Wakefield's research,

said Dr. Beth Koslap-Petraco, who chairs the legislative affairs division

of the Nurse Practitioner Association of Long Island.

Koslap-Petraco, who has also served on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee,

which advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says there is an

upsurge in the United States in cases of whooping cough, measles, mumps and

chickenpox that can be directly linked to avoiding vaccines.

Krakow, a Garden City lawyer who represented dozens of families in a case

three years ago that sought to link autism to vaccine, sees Wakefield as a

victim. " You wonder why this focus on him and these misleading statements -

these efforts to tar and feather him. "