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Study Linking Vaccine to Autism Was 'Elaborate Fraud,' Journal Says

The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.

The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet, where it was published. Still, the suggestion the MMR shot was connected to autism spooked parents worldwide and immunization rates for measles, mumps and rubella have never fully recovered.

A new examination found, by comparing the reported diagnoses in the paper to hospital records, that Wakefield and colleagues altered facts about patients in their study.

The analysis, by British journalist Brian Deer, found that despite the claim in Wakefield's paper that the 12 children studied were normal until they had the MMR shot, five had previously documented developmental problems. Deer also found that all the cases were somehow misrepresented when he compared data from medical records and the children's parents.

In an accompanying editorial, BMJ editor Fiona Godlee and colleagues called Wakefield's study "an elaborate fraud."

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/06/autism-vaccine-fraud/

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Study Linking Vaccine to Autism Was 'Elaborate Fraud,' Journal Says

The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.

The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet, where it was published. Still, the suggestion the MMR shot was connected to autism spooked parents worldwide and immunization rates for measles, mumps and rubella have never fully recovered.

A new examination found, by comparing the reported diagnoses in the paper to hospital records, that Wakefield and colleagues altered facts about patients in their study.

The analysis, by British journalist Brian Deer, found that despite the claim in Wakefield's paper that the 12 children studied were normal until they had the MMR shot, five had previously documented developmental problems. Deer also found that all the cases were somehow misrepresented when he compared data from medical records and the children's parents.

In an accompanying editorial, BMJ editor Fiona Godlee and colleagues called Wakefield's study "an elaborate fraud."

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/06/autism-vaccine-fraud/

There now, ya can see how easy it is to make believers out of the gullible public iffen you only tell them something that will scare the bejesus out of them.

CO2 causes Global Warming, cigarette smoke causes cancer, an eternity in Hell iffen you sin, kids not playing with a full deck, all DUI'ers are killers, cell phones cause cancer, Democrats are for the poor, etc., etc.

B-b-b-b-but scientists claimed that autism was related to immunizations. They had SCIENTIFIC proof!