Case paper and case study isthe same thing, but neither are a double-blinded, controlled trial, they are simply when a doctor writes up case notes about his patients and publishs them. All Dr. Wakefield did was say he had these patients and he had observed that autistic patients had colitis and that when the colitis was treated, frequently the autistic symptoms would improve. The thing that made it controversial was the fact that eight of the patient's autism came on after MMR and the parents felt it was related so Dr. Wakefield suggested doing some research into MMR, although he said that his observations DIDN'T prove an association with MMR. Despite this, medical establishments and the media have repeatedly mis-quoted and called it an anti-vaccine study and made out he said MMR was causing autism when he concluded nothing of the kind. All he said was, I think this should be looked into and it isn't politically correct to even question vaccines. The retraction of that initial case paper was political because he had concluded that he hadn't enough evidence to prove an association with MMR...so what's to retract, that MMR doesn't cause autism? You can't retract a possibility and a request for research. It was merely a political move to discourage other doctors from looking at vaccines and certainly from mentioning them in public.
I too would like a study that looks at totally vaccinated and totally unvaccinated but they haven't done this. I would certainly volunteer my children if such a study were in place. Parents have been asking the CDC for years, and other organisations.
There are many other studies that show colitis in regressive autism, which is what Andrew Wakefield was reporting:
Those are just a few. Some criticize the fact that there were only 12 children in his case notes and you need more than that to diagnose a new illness, well, Dr. Hans Asperger only had 11 patients in his case notes when he diagnosed Asperger's syndrome.
Mercury was reduced in vaccines, but not removed, and at the same time they added in routine flu vaccines with thimerosal in them, and it's in the Hep B vaccine. Here is the schedule for 2001:
In the UK we also supposedly removed most of the thimerosal but then they added it into other vaccines, like H1N1. It is still present in amounts of 3mcg or less per shot but there many vaccines at frequent intervals and thimerosal has a cumulative effect.
There's nothing wrong with medical hypothises journal. The point of science is that hypothises are discussed and debated constantly, that's the nature of science. If it were to stand still with one viewpoint and refuse to look at opposing evidence, that is not science. The title hypothises suggests that it is a journal that discusses possible theoretical ideas in science, not things that have been 'proven'. If people can't even discuss an issue because it isn't popular, that isn't science.
When Sir Issac Newton discovered gravity, everyone thought he was a nut job.
Likewise, smoking was considered safe and even beneficial for your health a few years ago and people who published anti-smoking studies were called crackpots and there was the same yo-yo effect seen with MMR, studies showing safety, studies showing it's not safe, before the lung cancer/cigarette connection was proven.
I will continue to report on the medical studies on this issue. Maybe in the end they will conclude MMR isn't a concern, maybe they won't. There are all sorts of other issues too, such as pollution, diet, ultrasound scans etc that I am reporting on. (I started with genetics and metabolism and will be continuing on other areas). I won't shy away from vaccines because it isn't PC.
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Case paper and case study isthe same thing, but neither are a double-blinded, controlled trial, they are simply when a doctor writes up case notes about his patients and publishs them. All Dr. Wakefield did was say he had these patients and he had observed that autistic patients had colitis and that when the colitis was treated, frequently the autistic symptoms would improve. The thing that made it controversial was the fact that eight of the patient's autism came on after MMR and the parents felt it was related so Dr. Wakefield suggested doing some research into MMR, although he said that his observations DIDN'T prove an association with MMR. Despite this, medical establishments and the media have repeatedly mis-quoted and called it an anti-vaccine study and made out he said MMR was causing autism when he concluded nothing of the kind. All he said was, I think this should be looked into and it isn't politically correct to even question vaccines. The retraction of that initial case paper was political because he had concluded that he hadn't enough evidence to prove an association with MMR...so what's to retract, that MMR doesn't cause autism? You can't retract a possibility and a request for research. It was merely a political move to discourage other doctors from looking at vaccines and certainly from mentioning them in public.
I too would like a study that looks at totally vaccinated and totally unvaccinated but they haven't done this. I would certainly volunteer my children if such a study were in place. Parents have been asking the CDC for years, and other organisations.
There are many other studies that show colitis in regressive autism, which is what Andrew Wakefield was reporting:
http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/18791817/reload=0;jsessionid=EBB5E776A2AAE0B0E33A220F3BDC20E7
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19214283 (from 2009).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19564647 (from 2009).
http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/content/54/10/987.short (2005).
Those are just a few. Some criticize the fact that there were only 12 children in his case notes and you need more than that to diagnose a new illness, well, Dr. Hans Asperger only had 11 patients in his case notes when he diagnosed Asperger's syndrome.
Mercury was reduced in vaccines, but not removed, and at the same time they added in routine flu vaccines with thimerosal in them, and it's in the Hep B vaccine. Here is the schedule for 2001:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5001a3.htm
And here's the schedule for 2004 with flu vaccine added in:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5316-Immunizationa1.htm
In the UK we also supposedly removed most of the thimerosal but then they added it into other vaccines, like H1N1. It is still present in amounts of 3mcg or less per shot but there many vaccines at frequent intervals and thimerosal has a cumulative effect.
There's nothing wrong with medical hypothises journal. The point of science is that hypothises are discussed and debated constantly, that's the nature of science. If it were to stand still with one viewpoint and refuse to look at opposing evidence, that is not science. The title hypothises suggests that it is a journal that discusses possible theoretical ideas in science, not things that have been 'proven'. If people can't even discuss an issue because it isn't popular, that isn't science.
When Sir Issac Newton discovered gravity, everyone thought he was a nut job.
Likewise, smoking was considered safe and even beneficial for your health a few years ago and people who published anti-smoking studies were called crackpots and there was the same yo-yo effect seen with MMR, studies showing safety, studies showing it's not safe, before the lung cancer/cigarette connection was proven.
I will continue to report on the medical studies on this issue. Maybe in the end they will conclude MMR isn't a concern, maybe they won't. There are all sorts of other issues too, such as pollution, diet, ultrasound scans etc that I am reporting on. (I started with genetics and metabolism and will be continuing on other areas). I won't shy away from vaccines because it isn't PC.
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