tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post724660815861200382..comments2024-02-13T21:31:57.980-04:00Comments on Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism and the MMR Vaccine:Was Wakefield Confirmed by Wake Forest University School of Medicine Study?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05838571980003579163noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-24108001997030448242011-09-20T05:01:13.954-03:002011-09-20T05:01:13.954-03:00It's even worse -- The Daily Mail (often calle...It's even worse -- The Daily Mail (often called the Daily Fail in the UK) has lopped off the comments to the article, which is what clued <i>me</i> into the fact that it was from 2006, not the current date-stamp.<br /><br />If you would like to complain to the Daily Mail about their practice of presenting outdated articles as if they were current, go to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/feedback.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/feedback.html</a>. <br /><br />I have.Liz Ditzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455722013211350247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-81444682361486502102011-09-19T20:07:34.690-03:002011-09-19T20:07:34.690-03:00The first time this study appeared in my google ne...The first time this study appeared in my google news feed (over a year ago, but still many years after the original publication), I did an extensive literature survey of articles published in the peer review literature by Stephen Walker. This abstract never did appear. One assumes that the data did not stand up to scrutiny, and perhaps was subject to the same false positives that made the Wakefield work invalid. It was disclosed in the Autism Omnibus hearings (the Cedillo case) that all of the apparent detection of measles virus were false positives. When the graduate student pointed this out to Wakefield, Wakefield insisted on publication of material he knew to be false.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-67154403824534600502011-09-19T19:15:15.831-03:002011-09-19T19:15:15.831-03:00The Wake Forest "study" was a poster pre...The Wake Forest "study" was a poster presentation at an IMFAR conference. It has never been published - not even in Autism Insights.AutismNewsBeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07067342515765043878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-28763398576891490862011-09-19T19:07:20.716-03:002011-09-19T19:07:20.716-03:00Hi Harold, you aren't the first person to be c...Hi Harold, you aren't the first person to be confused by the Daily Mail's perverse practice of failing to date-stamp articles posted on-line. <br /><br /><a href="http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2011/01/the-daily-mail-uk-continuing-sorry-contribution-to-fear-uncertainty-and-doubt-vaccine-fears.html" rel="nofollow">The Daily Mail (UK) continuting sorry contribution to fear uncertainty, doubt and vaccine fears</a> covers the confusion, blog posts about the Walker poster presentation at the time of the 2006 IMFAR meeting, and subsequent developments.<br /><br />You might find this particularly interesting<br /><br /><i>....Two of the complainants in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding, the Cedillos and Hazelhursts, relied upon the unpublished Walker et al. research. Both the Special Masters in the hearings, and the presiding judge in the following Hazelhurst appeal, dismissed the evidentiary value of the Walker et al. study (exerpts from the hearings and the appeal are below). In other words, the Walker data have been examined and found unconvincing, because it was scientifically suspect. </i>Liz Ditzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455722013211350247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-19464913158529923232011-09-18T17:09:25.750-03:002011-09-18T17:09:25.750-03:00Dr. Wakefield may have been guilty of not disclosi...Dr. Wakefield may have been guilty of not disclosing personal financial benefit to discrediting the particular combined MMR vaccine, but according to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qvMghp-A8&feature=player_detailpage#t=1121s" rel="nofollow">an interview</a> he did with Alex Jones (I know, sorry), so were those that shut him up in the UK.<br /><br />The head of Elsevier, publishers of the British Medical Journal (who published and then retracted the doctor's work), sat on the board of GlaxoSmithKline (producers of the MMR vaccine). His brother was a high court judge who dismissed the appeal of parents seeking compensation for MMR vaccine damage. The chairman of the panel who sat in judgment on Dr. Wakefield did not disclose that he was a shareholder in GlaxoSmithKline.<br /><br />Dr. Wakefield was built up as a strawman to represent everyone and everything against the business-as-usual, everythings-100%-OK-with-all-vaccines mindset. And then a PR campaign to destroy him was launched, so that by shooting the messenger, any message he's associated with is also destroyed. The spin tied the Fox News 'all vaccines are 100% bad' viewpoint to the reasonable desire for further vaccine safety research and then tried to sink them as one unit.<br /><br />The bottom line is, well, the financial bottom line. If any vaccines end up tied to the drastic increases in autism, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1079259/A-vaccine-given-babies-increase-risk-childhood-asthma.html" rel="nofollow">asthma</a>, etc, the corporations responsible would end up bankrupt or the government indemnifying them would. The corporations like to claim that the science is done because that's to their advantage, when it simply isn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-66048340852403105922011-09-18T10:37:50.347-03:002011-09-18T10:37:50.347-03:00Maybe this is the same study?
http://www.wakeheal...Maybe this is the same study?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2006/Wake_Forest_Researcher_Warns_Against_Making_Connection_Between_Presence_of_Measles_Virus_and_Autism.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2006/Wake_Forest_Researcher_Warns_Against_Making_Connection_Between_Presence_of_Measles_Virus_and_Autism.htm</a><br /><br />WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – An American scientist whose research replicates a connection published in England in 2002 between the measles virus and bowel disease in autistic children strongly warns against making the “leap” to suggesting that the measles vaccine might actually cause autism.<br /><br />“That is not what our research is showing,” said Stephen J. Walker, Ph.D., an assistant professor of physiology and pharmacology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Walker and colleagues have issued an abstract to be presented at this week’s International Meeting for Autism Research, indicating that a high percentage of autistic children that they have tested with chronic bowel disease show evidence of measles virus in their intestines.<br /><br />...(read the rest at the link) <br /><br />The project doesn't seem to be listed on Wake Forest's site, so maybe it was killed? Perhaps you could e-mail the primary author and ask him what happened to it? His contact information is here -<br /><br />http://www.wakehealth.edu/Faculty/Walker-Stephen-J.htmM.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12033918835169823548noreply@blogger.com