- February 7, 2010
- 06:00 AM
- 235 views
Revisiting 'Autism, Vaccines, and The Oprah Effect'
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
In June I commented on the autism - vaccine controversy and the role that Oprah had in promoting it. Seven moths later, I am revisiting this issue. 12 years ago, Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues first published his findings in The Lancet providing ‘evidence’ suggesting they had tracked down a shocking cause of autism – that being the MMR Vaccine. Last week The Lancet published a retraction of Wakefield’s paper stating that “it has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper........ Read more »
WAKEFIELD, A., MURCH, S., ANTHONY, A., LINNELL, J., CASSON, D., MALIK, M., BERELOWITZ, M., DHILLON, A., THOMSON, M., & HARVEY, P. (1998) Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The Lancet, 351(9103), 637-641. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0
The Editors of The Lancet, . (2010) Retraction—Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The Lancet, 375(9713), 445-445. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60175-4
- February 3, 2010
- 10:37 AM
- 253 views
Journal Retracts Autism Research
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
In 1998, a landmark study was published in the medical journal The Lancet. It was the first major research that suggested a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. Almost immediately following publication, the rates of vaccination plummeted and the incidence of measles escalated among children. Since then, the subject has been the source [...]... Read more »
Herbert MR. (2010) Contributions of the environment and environmentally vulnerable physiology to autism spectrum disorders. Current opinion in neurology. PMID: 20087183
Kinney, D., Barch, D., Chayka, B., Napoleon, S., & Munir, K. (2010) Environmental risk factors for autism: Do they help cause de novo genetic mutations that contribute to the disorder?. Medical Hypotheses, 74(1), 102-106. DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.07.052
WAKEFIELD, A., MURCH, S., ANTHONY, A., LINNELL, J., CASSON, D., MALIK, M., BERELOWITZ, M., DHILLON, A., THOMSON, M., & HARVEY, P. (1998) Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The Lancet, 351(9103), 637-641. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0
- June 4, 2009
- 11:11 AM
- 667 views
Autism, Vaccines, and The Oprah Effect
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
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WAKEFIELD, A., MURCH, S., ANTHONY, A., LINNELL, J., CASSON, D., MALIK, M., BERELOWITZ, M., DHILLON, A., THOMSON, M., & HARVEY, P. (1998) Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The Lancet, 351(9103), 637-641. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0
- June 4, 2009
- 11:11 AM
- 36 views
Autism, Vaccines, and the Oprah Effect
by Susan Steinhardt in The PostDoc Forum
Oprah Winfrey is The Media Queen. On the air for over twenty years, Oprah’s self-named syndicated talk show has roughly forty million viewers weekly. Aside from her television success, the media mogul has a steady monthly following of 2 million readers for her O magazine, has her own satellite radio channel, and an extremely popular Web site. Oprah’s personal fortune has been estimated by Forbes to be $2.7 billion – and yet her media empire is continuing to grow. Oprah recently........ Read more »
WAKEFIELD, A., MURCH, S., ANTHONY, A., LINNELL, J., CASSON, D., MALIK, M., BERELOWITZ, M., DHILLON, A., THOMSON, M., & HARVEY, P. (1998) Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The Lancet, 351(9103), 637-641. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0
- February 7, 2009
- 09:12 PM
- 927 views
Scientific Misconduct and the Autism-MMR Vaccine Link
by Mike Dunford in The Questionable Authority
A series of articles just published in The Sunday Times is reporting that it appears likely that Andrew Wakefield falsified much of the data that was used in the 1998 Lancet article that first identified the MMR vaccine as a potential cause of autism. If the charges leveled by the paper are remotely accurate, Wakefield is guilty of homicide - if not legally, then certainly morally. If previous accusations made by the paper are accurate, the homicide may have been committed for financial gain.
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A WAKEFIELD, S MURCH, A ANTHONY, J LINNELL, D CASSON, M MALIK, M BERELOWITZ, A DHILLON, M THOMSON, & P HARVEY. (1998) Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The Lancet, 351(9103), 637-641. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0
- March 12, 2008
- 10:32 AM
- 644 views
When Entertainment Encourages Epidemics
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a press release calling for ABC to cancel its pilot episode of a new drama Eli Stone. Renee R. Jenkins, MD, President of the AAP, accused ABC of “reckless irresponsibility” in screening a television program that may give parents the false impression that vaccines cause autism. She goes on ... Read more »
A WAKEFIELD, S MURCH, A ANTHONY, J LINNELL, D CASSON, M MALIK, M BERELOWITZ, A DHILLON, M THOMSON, & P HARVEY. (1998) Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The Lancet, 351(9103), 637-641. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0
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