{"id":2187,"date":"2011-01-08T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/fraud-autism-vaccine-researcher-nailed.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:15:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:15:51","slug":"fraud-autism-vaccine-researcher-nailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"Fraud: Autism-vaccine researcher Nailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/TShnXg64TMI\/AAAAAAAAC2w\/Q-EcHd0XJdI\/s1600\/FraudSign.gif\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-opt-id=983612536  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/TShnXg64TMI\/AAAAAAAAC2w\/Q-EcHd0XJdI\/s320\/FraudSign.gif?resize=320%2C320\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span>Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the-now disgraced British doctor who published studies linking vaccines with autism, committed an &#8220;elaborate fraud&#8221; by faking data, the British Medical Journal said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The journal&#8217;s editors said it was not possible that Wakefield made a mistake but must have falsified the data for his study, which <i><b>convinced thousands of parents that vaccines are dangerous <\/b><\/i>and which is blamed for ongoing outbreaks of measles and mumps.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><b><u><br \/><\/u><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><b><u>He Is A Fraud<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\">For instance, the reports found that Wakefield, first of all, only included data from 12 children, &nbsp;and that several of them showed symptoms of autism before having been vaccinated.<\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\">Fears that vaccines might cause autism have not only caused parents to skip vaccinating their children, but have forced costly reformulations of many vaccines.<\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\">In 1998, The Lancet medical journal, a rival to the BMJ, published a study by Wakefield and colleagues linking the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism.<\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><u><b>He Is In DENIAL<\/b><\/u><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\">Unbelievably, Wakefield denied the allegations.&nbsp;&#8220;<i>The study is not a lie. The findings that we have made have been replicated in five countries around the world.<\/i>&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\">A disciplinary panel of Britain&#8217;s General Medical Council said last February that Wakefield had presented his research in an &#8220;irresponsible and dishonest&#8221; way and had brought the medical profession into disrepute.<\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\">&#8220;<i>Clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare<\/i>,&#8221; they added.<\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\">Many experts have tried to show that vaccines might cause autism. Newer suspicions have focused on thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines and since removed from childhood vaccines.<\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #cccccc; float: left; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; width: 620px;\">\n<ul style=\"display: block; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE7050J420110106\">Autism-vaccine researcher a fraud: medical journal | Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willclower.com\/\"> Click here to visit Will Clower&#8217;s website. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the-now disgraced British doctor who published studies linking vaccines with autism, committed an &#8220;elaborate fraud&#8221; by faking data, the British Medical Journal said on Wednesday. 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