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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/05/health/AP-EU-MED-Aut
Vaccine-Autism Study Was Fraud
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 5, 2011
Filed at 7:50 p.m. EST
LONDON (AP) — 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.
Wakefield could not be reached for comment despite repeated calls and
requests to the publisher of his recent book, which claims there is a
connection between vaccines and autism that has been ignored by the medical
establishment. Wakefield now lives in the U.S. where he enjoys a vocal
following including celebrity supporters like Jenny McCarthy.
Deer's article was paid for by the Sunday Times of London and Britain's
Channel 4 television network. It was published online Thursday in the
medical journal, BMJ.
In an accompanying editorial, BMJ editor Fiona Godlee and colleagues
called Wakefield's study "an elaborate fraud." They said Wakefield's work in
other journals should be examined to see if it should be retracted.
Last May, Wakefield was stripped of his right to practice medicine in
Britain. Many other published studies have shown no connection between the
MMR vaccination and autism.
But measles has surged since Wakefield's paper was published and there
are sporadic outbreaks in Europe and the U.S. In 2008, measles was deemed
endemic in England and Wales. | s**********y
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