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2 days ago · t. e. Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956) [3] [4] [a] is a British fraudster, discredited academic, anti-vaccine activist, and former physician. He was struck off the medical register for his involvement in The Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that fraudulently claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR ...
4 days ago · The paper published an unproven link between the new syndrome that Dr Wakefield described and the MMR vaccine. Ten of the paper’s authors issued a partial retraction in 2004. They suggested that the link between autism and bowel disorders is worthy of further investigation. But they admitted they did not find that the MMR vaccine caused autism.
May 17, 2024 · There is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism. (National Autism Society state ‘There is no link between autism and vaccines.’) 90.8% of children in the East of England received their first MMR vaccine by the age of 24 months – according to national statistics from October-December 2023:
2 days ago · The MMR vaccine as a cause of autism is one of the most extensively debated hypotheses regarding the origins of autism. Andrew Wakefield et al. reported a study of 12 children who had autism and bowel symptoms, in some cases reportedly with onset after MMR.
1 day ago · The idea that the MMR vaccine directly causes autism is what cost writer-director Andrew Wakefield his medical license and credibility among doctors and scientists across the world. As a whistleblower on what he perceives is a Big Pharma conspiracy, he endeavored to raise awareness with a documentary called Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe ...
3 days ago · In my original report, it was discovered that there was a new case of autism for every 169 doses of MMR vaccine given out. That report had sparse data, but it used the time-point of the 1998 publication by Wakefield et al. (that had suggested a temporal link between autism and MMR) — to take advantage of the variation in uptake/coverage.
1 day ago · We examine the effect of Internet diffusion on the uptake of an important public health intervention: the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. We study England between 2000 and 2011 when Internet diffusion spread rapidly and there was a high profile medical article (falsely) linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
