Lot's of people have bowel problems: people with ASD have bowel problems, and people without ASD have bowel problems.
The crux of Wakefield's work was to associate the ONSET of both bowel problems and ASD with vaccination with MMR. That has never, ever been replicated.
Indeed, Wakefield was offered salary, staff, and research support to attempt to replicate his study at the Royal Free, but he declined.
The ONLY study that attempted to replicate Wakefield's association of the ONSET of ASD and bowel symptoms with receipt of MMR included Wakefield's co-author and business partner as an author; the authors concluded :
"The work reported here eliminates the remaining support for the hypothesis that ASD with GI complaints is related to MMR exposure." [PLoS One. 2008 Sep 4;3(9):e3140]
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You plainly misunderstand.
Lot's of people have bowel problems: people with ASD have bowel problems, and people without ASD have bowel problems.
The crux of Wakefield's work was to associate the ONSET of both bowel problems and ASD with vaccination with MMR. That has never, ever been replicated.
Indeed, Wakefield was offered salary, staff, and research support to attempt to replicate his study at the Royal Free, but he declined.
The ONLY study that attempted to replicate Wakefield's association of the ONSET of ASD and bowel symptoms with receipt of MMR included Wakefield's co-author and business partner as an author; the authors concluded :
"The work reported here eliminates the remaining support for the hypothesis that ASD with GI complaints is related to MMR exposure." [PLoS One. 2008 Sep 4;3(9):e3140]
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