Vaccine/Autism link a 'fraud'

[M-in-Oz]

Heard about this on the radio this morning:

"A 1998 STUDY that unleashed a major health scare by linking childhood autism to a triple vaccine was "an elaborate fraud", the British Medical Journal has charged. Blamed for a disastrous boycott of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in Britain, the study was retracted by The Lancet last year and its senior author disgraced, after the country's longest-running hearing, for conflict of interest and unethical treatment of patients".

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-medical-journal/story-e6frg6n6-1225982874239

Doctor Wakefield is no longer allowed to work as a doctor in the UK and has moved to America. I think it is interesting as the study did have an impact on vaccination rates and it will be difficult to change the publics mind about it. Australia still has 95% vaccination rate but I have found amongst my friends they are becoming reluctant to vaccinate their children.

 

[Kewpie]

The story has been reported last two years in the UK.

Dr Wakefield has been struck off by GMC in 2010.

 

[M-in-Oz]

Well I guess we really are a step behind the whole world
The British Medical Journal came out yesterday with their fraud finding and denouncing the original study.

 

[moz'art girl]

I am afraid the Doctor could be right, but he disturbs people within the industry. I have read a book about vaccination, and all I can say, is that I don't want to be vaccinated again!!
I have read some pages of a book about "aluminium",and the author says the post war Irak syndroms seem to be linked with vaccinations.