M-in-Oz
Active Member
Heard about this on the radio this morning:
"A 1998 STUDY that unleashed a major health scare by linking childhood autism to a triple vaccine was "an elaborate fraud", the British Medical Journal has charged. Blamed for a disastrous boycott of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in Britain, the study was retracted by The Lancet last year and its senior author disgraced, after the country's longest-running hearing, for conflict of interest and unethical treatment of patients".
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-medical-journal/story-e6frg6n6-1225982874239
Doctor Wakefield is no longer allowed to work as a doctor in the UK and has moved to America. I think it is interesting as the study did have an impact on vaccination rates and it will be difficult to change the publics mind about it. Australia still has 95% vaccination rate but I have found amongst my friends they are becoming reluctant to vaccinate their children.
"A 1998 STUDY that unleashed a major health scare by linking childhood autism to a triple vaccine was "an elaborate fraud", the British Medical Journal has charged. Blamed for a disastrous boycott of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in Britain, the study was retracted by The Lancet last year and its senior author disgraced, after the country's longest-running hearing, for conflict of interest and unethical treatment of patients".
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-medical-journal/story-e6frg6n6-1225982874239
Doctor Wakefield is no longer allowed to work as a doctor in the UK and has moved to America. I think it is interesting as the study did have an impact on vaccination rates and it will be difficult to change the publics mind about it. Australia still has 95% vaccination rate but I have found amongst my friends they are becoming reluctant to vaccinate their children.