"Autism caused by vaccine" expert researcher is debunked as fraud...

Nobody!

Because of his original article and all the scaremongering since fewer children were inoculated against measles and/or mumps and there have been more deaths from these diseases.

 

You do realize that the original report involved only like 12 cases right? And it was highly dependent on parental recall/memory? And that it was specific to only the combined MMR vaccine, as opposed to the 3 shots that it used to be?

 

It has been known for many years that this guy was a complete fraud and that he faked evidence. The only news here is that it's finally been proven. Vaccines save lives. And today's vaccines are extremely safe. Nothing is 100% safe. Life is 100% fatal, so sooner or later something's gonna getcha. But the anti-vaccine people are either lunatic conspiracy theorists or morons who refused to study math because "I'm never gonna need that stuff" and therefore cannot comprehend that a 1:1,000,000 chance of getting sick from a vaccine is better than a 1:1,000 chance of getting sick from the bug the vaccine would have prevented.

 

5 out of every 3 people suffer from it.

Tom

 

The other 4 enjoy it.

 

If my memory serves me correctly his original study group consisted of children attending his son's birthday party. Yet because of this nut job there are now a vast number of children unvaccinated. Of course his believers will still take his writtings as gospel and say big pharma is attacking him to protect their $$$.

 

It is not a matter of belief, the spurious claim was that Mercury used in the preparation was the problem, they have not used mercury since 2001. If the report was true, children under eleven should have a reduced percentage of autism. The actual facts do not support this, there are more cases than ever.

His claims were wrong, and so far as can be determined, were designed to ease litigation. Sadly, the quack doctor is punished, but I hear nothing about the penalties the lawyers who funded him are getting. Inventing bad medicine to sue folks should have penalties. These lawyers killed children by frightening their parents.

The R in MMR caused about 1/3 of the infant deafness, (among other defects) you can track that reduction in the deaf population for the last 40 years, when something works, there are observable results.

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_rubella_syndrome[/ame]

 

As usual, Penn and Teller say it best (This being Penn and Teller, this is NSFW):

 

P & T are great. That vid was linked in Phil Plait's Bad Astronomer's blog (over at Discovery) a couple months ago.

While Autism is a bad thing, refusing to believe doctors and scientists claims that booster shots and vaccinations are still safe is far worse. America is getting dumber as a nation every day. Parents, do everything you can to make sure science and math are part of your kid's education.

 

I've had nearly every kind of vaccination you can get...

I know the use and administration of vaccines isn't fool-proof nor 100% safe... but for the overwhelming majority of recipients of the preventative measure there is no problem of additional health risks.

I am glad the fraud is finally made public...


There are others that didn't have their licenses revoked, in more than just the medical profession... that hasn't been addressed, nor do I believe it will be.

 

Re: I've had nearly every kind of vaccination you can get...

If you are one of the minority with side effects, you may see things differently.
Take the HPV vaccine for example.
Small risk of side effects, but the risk of the disease may be nonexistent,if you are not sexually active.
Yet big pharma is making a bundle ,selling a ton of mandated vaccinations that may be unnecessary and not really effective anyway.
My girlfriends niece came down with Lupus immediately after receiving the vaccine.Maybe a coincidence.

 

That scientist could have made a ton more money if he were studying global warming.And not had any fear of getting caught.
$78 Billion (? figure from memory) spent so far studying global warming.
Food for thought.

 

Problem is, the Bible-thumpers have declared war on science. They drill into kids' heads that knowledge is sinful and only faith matters. Whatever kids learn in science class, their preachers tell them is Satan's lies. How can you expect them to take learning seriously?

Democracy cannot function when the public are a bunch of superstitious ignoramuses.

 

Re: I've had nearly every kind of vaccination you can get...

Maybe he should avoid car accidents.

Maybe some should avoid (particular) unnecessary vaccines that mainly enrich the drug companies.