padib said:
hsrob said:
This is a recycled story from over 2 years ago.
"In June 2012, a local court in Rimini, Italy, ruled that the MMR vaccination had caused autism in a 15-month-old boy. The court relied heavily on the discredited Lancet paper and largely ignored the scientific evidence presented to it. The decision is under appeal"
"The MMR vaccine controversy centers on the 1998 publication of a fraudulent research paper in the medical journal The Lancet that lent support to the later discredited claim that colitis and autism spectrum disorders are linked to the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.[1] The media have been criticized for their naïve reporting and for lending undue credibility to the architect of the fraud, Andrew Wakefield.
Investigations by Sunday Times journalist Brian Deer reported that Andrew Wakefield, the author of the original research paper, had multiple undeclared conflicts of interest,[2][3] had manipulated evidence,[4] and had broken other ethical codes. The Lancet paper was partially retracted in 2004, and fully retracted in 2010, when The Lancet's editor-in-chief Richard Horton described it as "utterly false" and said that the journal had been "deceived."[5] Wakefield was found guilty by the General Medical Council of serious professional misconduct in May 2010 and was struck off the Medical Register, meaning he could no longer practice as a doctor in the UK.[6] In 2011, Deer provided further information on Wakefield's improper research practices to the British medical journal, BMJ, which in a signed editorial described the original paper as fraudulent.[7][8] The scientific consensus is that no evidence links the MMR vaccine to the development of autism, and that this vaccine's benefits greatly outweigh its risks."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy
To those sighting anecdotal experience, I can to. My brother is autistic and never had a vaccination of any kind. I never had a vaccine either and got, measles, mumps, rubella, and chicken pox but had to get admitted to an ICU due to complications (encephalitis) of chicken pox. Good thing I avoided those nasty vaccines though.
In all seriousness though, PDD, ASD, GDD or any other acronym you feel like throwing around represent a range of disorders that due to their very nature are not apparent from birth and only start to manifest months to years later which spans the same period of time when childhood vaccination usually takes place. I'm not saying that vaccinations are perfect or never have adverse effects but utilising anecdotal reports and fear-mongering to discourage people from vaccinating their kids DIRECTLY causes harm.
Vaccination has been so effective for so long that people forget that these diseases used to kill many, many children. For a final anecdote, 4 of my mother's siblings died from vaccine preventable illness. |
I'm not saying I will stick to my point of view, I'm glad people are bringing up counter-arguments. If I am wrong then I'll be happy to be shown why. Don't say people like throwing things around it's disingenuous.
The Italy ruling was from Sept 2014 though, the article dated Feb 2015.
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Yet the original decision was based largely on the initial fraudulent research. They also site the interaction with his particular genetic mutation, I'm curious what that might be and whether that alone might explain his reaction to the vaccine.
Again, not stating that there are no adverse reactions to vaccines, there are, I've seen them first hand, but a single court decision still does nothing to counteract the existing weight of evidence, there's no new data presented here.
You have pitched this as a 'think twice before vaccinating your kids" piece, rather than what it is, a single unfortunate case where a court has ruled that a young child has probably had an unfortunate reaction to a vaccine.
