The sources have September on them because that's when I accessed them and that's what I was told to put.
Andrew Wakefield's original case paper was exactly that, a case paper, not a study. It was a case paper of 12 children that presented with autism and gastrointestinal disease, 8 of which after MMR. All Andrew Wakefield said was that the situation should be investigated and he concluded that it DIDN'T prove an association with MMR. He later did do follow up studies (as have others), but the initial case paper was never a study.
And actually his findings of enterocolitis in autistic children has been repeated by others, here for instance:
HgCl2 stimulates VEGF and IL-6 release from human mast cells. This phenomenon could disrupt the blood-brain-barrier and permit brain inflammation. As a result, the findings of the present study provide a biological mechanism for how low levels of mercury may contribute to ASD pathogenesis.
http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/7/1/20/abstract
That was from March 2010.
The severity of autism associated with toxic metal body burden:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809421/
Brain specific auto-antibodies in austistic children:
http://pubget.com/paper/19135624
Positive association between childhood vaccination uptake and autism prevelance in the US:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623535
That was in January 2011, so it's not true to say that the case paper was years ago and everything has been proven safe since then. Scientists are still studying the issue repeatedly.
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The sources have September on them because that's when I accessed them and that's what I was told to put.
Andrew Wakefield's original case paper was exactly that, a case paper, not a study. It was a case paper of 12 children that presented with autism and gastrointestinal disease, 8 of which after MMR. All Andrew Wakefield said was that the situation should be investigated and he concluded that it DIDN'T prove an association with MMR. He later did do follow up studies (as have others), but the initial case paper was never a study.
And actually his findings of enterocolitis in autistic children has been repeated by others, here for instance:
http://www.la-press.com/clinical-presentation-and-histologic-findings-at-ileocolonoscopy-in-ch-a1816
And here's one about the possible causative role of vaccinations in autistic children with an underlying mitochondrial cytopathy:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003815
And this one:
HgCl2 stimulates VEGF and IL-6 release from human mast cells. This phenomenon could disrupt the blood-brain-barrier and permit brain inflammation. As a result, the findings of the present study provide a biological mechanism for how low levels of mercury may contribute to ASD pathogenesis.
http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/7/1/20/abstract
That was from March 2010.
The severity of autism associated with toxic metal body burden:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809421/
Brain specific auto-antibodies in austistic children:
http://pubget.com/paper/19135624
Positive association between childhood vaccination uptake and autism prevelance in the US:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623535
That was in January 2011, so it's not true to say that the case paper was years ago and everything has been proven safe since then. Scientists are still studying the issue repeatedly.
September 8, 2011 - 3:24pmThis Comment
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